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Thorough Understanding of Bioluminophore Production in Bacterial Bioluminescence
Abstract
Bioluminophore of bioluminescence (BL) comes from the decomposition of peroxide, which is an intermediate produced in the complicated chemical reactions of BL. The peroxide is a dioxetanone in most BL cases and an endoperoxide in fungal BL. The decomposition mechanisms of these two types of peroxides have been exclusively studied. However, the peroxide is a linear organic peroxide in bacterial BL, whose decomposition explanations are quite controversial, and seven mechanisms have been proposed. To thoroughly understand the mechanism of bioluminophore production in bacterial BL, this paper systematically discusses the seven proposed mechanisms via the present computational results and previous experimental and theoretical results. Our research results indicate that the bioluminophore in bacterial BL is produced through the charge-transfer initiated luminescence (CTIL) mechanism. The decomposition mechanism of linear organic peroxide was compared with the decomposition mechanisms of the other two types of peroxides, dioxetanone and endoperoxide. This study is also helpful in understanding the bioluminophore production in other BLs via the decomposition of an organic peroxide, such as dinoflagellate BL- Text
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- transfer initiated luminescence
- paper systematically discusses
- complicated chemical reactions
- research results indicate
- present computational results
- whose decomposition explanations
- linear organic peroxide
- bacterial bioluminescence bioluminophore
- theoretical results
- organic peroxide
- bacterial bl
- two types
- thoroughly understand
- seven mechanisms
- quite controversial
- previous experimental
- exclusively studied
- decomposition mechanisms
- bls via
- bioluminophore production
- also helpful