Oxidoreductases;
Acting on single donors with incorporation of molecular oxygen (oxygenases);
With incorporation of one atom of oxygen (internal monooxygenases or internal mixed-function oxidases)

Cypridina-luciferin:oxygen 2-oxidoreductase (decarboxylating)

Cypridina luciferin + O2 = oxidized Cypridina luciferin + CO2 + hnu [RN:R04063]

R04063

Cypridina luciferin [CPD:C02825];
O2 [CPD:C00007]

Cypridina is a bioluminescent crustacea. The luciferins (and presumably the luciferases, since they cross-react) of some luminous fish (e.g. Apogon, Parapriacanthus, Porichthys) are apparently similar. The enzyme may be assayed by measurement of light emission.

EC 1.13.12.6 created 1976, modified 1982

1  [PMID:5624784]

Cormier MJ, Crane JM Jr, Nakano Y.

Evidence for the identity of the luminescent systems of Porichthys porosissimus (fish) and Cypridina hilgendorfii (crustacean).

Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 29 (1967) 747-52.

2

Karpetsky, T.P. and White, E.H.

The synthesis of Cypridina etioluciferamine and the proof of the structure of Cypridina luciferin.

Tetrahedron 29 (1973) 3761-3773.

3

Kishi, Y., Goto, T., Hirata, Y., Shiromura, O. and Johnson, F.H.

Cypridina bioluminescence. I. Structure of Cypridina luciferin.

Tetrahedron Lett. (1966) 3427-3436.

4  [PMID:4433517]

Tsuji FI, Lynch RV 3rd, Stevens CL.

Some properties of luciferase from the bioluminescent crustacean, Cypridina hilgendorfii.

Biochemistry. 13 (1974) 5204-9.