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Aequorin, the Glossary

Aequorin is a calcium-activated photoprotein isolated from the hydrozoan Aequorea victoria.^[1]

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Aequorea

Aequorea is a genus of pelagic hydrozoans in the family Aequoreidae.

Aequorea victoria

Aequorea victoria, also sometimes called the crystal jelly, is a bioluminescent hydrozoan jellyfish, or hydromedusa, that is found off the west coast of North America.

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ALM (formerly American Lawyer Media) is a media company headquartered in the Socony–Mobil Building in Manhattan, and is a provider of specialized business news and information, focused primarily on the legal, insurance, and commercial real estate sectors.

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American Pharmacists Association

The American Pharmacists Association (APhA, previously known as the American Pharmaceutical Association), founded in 1852, is the first-established professional society of pharmacists in the United States.

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Bioluminescence

Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by living organisms.

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Blood–brain barrier

The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a highly selective semipermeable border of endothelial cells that regulates the transfer of solutes and chemicals between the circulatory system and the central nervous system, thus protecting the brain from harmful or unwanted substances in the blood.

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Calcium

Calcium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ca and atomic number 20.

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Calcium in biology

Calcium ions (Ca2+) contribute to the physiology and biochemistry of organisms' cells.

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Calcium-binding protein

Calcium-binding proteins are proteins that participate in calcium cell signaling pathways by binding to Ca2+, the calcium ion that plays an important role in many cellular processes.

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Calmodulin

Calmodulin (CaM) (an abbreviation for calcium-modulated protein) is a multifunctional intermediate calcium-binding messenger protein expressed in all eukaryotic cells.

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Cameleon (protein)

Cameleon is an engineered protein based on variant of green fluorescent protein used to visualize calcium levels in living cells.

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.

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Cell culture

Cell culture or tissue culture is the process by which cells are grown under controlled conditions, generally outside of their natural environment.

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Cell membrane

The cell membrane (also known as the plasma membrane or cytoplasmic membrane, and historically referred to as the plasmalemma) is a biological membrane that separates and protects the interior of a cell from the outside environment (the extracellular space).

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Cell wall

A cell wall is a structural layer that surrounds some cell types, found immediately outside the cell membrane.

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Center for Science in the Public Interest

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit watchdog and consumer advocacy group that advocates for safer and healthier foods.

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Class action

A class action, also known as a class action lawsuit, class suit, or representative action, is a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented collectively by a member or members of that group.

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Coelenteramide

Coelenteramide is the oxidized product, or oxyluciferin, of the bioluminescent reactions in many marine organisms that use coelenterazine. Aequorin and Coelenteramide are bioluminescence.

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Coelenterazine

Coelenterazine is a luciferin, a molecule that emits light after reaction with oxygen, found in many aquatic organisms across eight phyla. Aequorin and Coelenterazine are bioluminescence.

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Complementary DNA

In genetics, complementary DNA (cDNA) is DNA that was reverse transcribed (via reverse transcriptase) from an RNA (e.g., messenger RNA or microRNA).

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Crystal structure

In crystallography, crystal structure is a description of ordered arrangement of atoms, ions, or molecules in a crystalline material.

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Cysteine

Cysteine (symbol Cys or C) is a semiessential proteinogenic amino acid with the formula.

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Dalton (unit)

The dalton or unified atomic mass unit (symbols: Da or u) is a non-SI unit of mass defined as of the mass of an unbound neutral atom of carbon-12 in its nuclear and electronic ground state and at rest.

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Data dredging

Data dredging (also known as data snooping or p-hacking) is the misuse of data analysis to find patterns in data that can be presented as statistically significant, thus dramatically increasing and understating the risk of false positives.

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Dietary supplement

A dietary supplement is a manufactured product intended to supplement a person's diet by taking a pill, capsule, tablet, powder, or liquid.

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DiI

DiI, pronounced like Dye Aye, also known as DiIC18(3), is a fluorescent lipophilic cationic indocarbocyanine dye and indolium compound, which is usually made as a perchlorate salt.

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Disulfide

In chemistry, a disulfide (or disulphide in British English) is a compound containing a functional group or the anion.

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E. Newton Harvey

Edmund Newton Harvey (November 25, 1887 – July 21, 1959) was an American zoologist.

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EF hand

The EF hand is a helix–loop–helix structural domain or motif found in a large family of calcium-binding proteins.

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Enzyme

Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts by accelerating chemical reactions.

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False advertising

False advertising is the act of publishing, transmitting, or otherwise publicly circulating an advertisement containing a false claim, or statement, made intentionally (or recklessly) to promote the sale of property, goods, or services.

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Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection.

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Fluorescence

Fluorescence is one of two kinds of emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation.

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Friday Harbor, Washington

Friday Harbor is a town in San Juan County, Washington, United States.

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Gene

In biology, the word gene has two meanings.

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Gene delivery

Gene delivery is the process of introducing foreign genetic material, such as DNA or RNA, into host cells.

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Genetically modified organism

A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques.

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Genome

In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism.

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Green fluorescent protein

The green fluorescent protein (GFP) is a protein that exhibits green fluorescence when exposed to light in the blue to ultraviolet range. Aequorin and green fluorescent protein are bioluminescence and Cnidarian proteins.

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Harriet Hall

Harriet A. Hall (July 2, 1945 – January 11, 2023) was an American family physician, U.S. Air Force flight surgeon, author, science communicator and skeptic.

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Holoprotein

A holoprotein or conjugated protein is an apoprotein combined with its prosthetic group.

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Hydrozoa

Hydrozoa (hydrozoans) is a taxonomic class of individually very small, predatory animals, some solitary and some colonial, most of which inhabit saline water.

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Lipophilicity

Lipophilicity (from Greek λίπος "fat" and φίλος "friendly") is the ability of a chemical compound to dissolve in fats, oils, lipids, and non-polar solvents such as hexane or toluene.

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List of light sources

This is a list of sources of light, the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Luciferase

Luciferase is a generic term for the class of oxidative enzymes that produce bioluminescence, and is usually distinguished from a photoprotein. Aequorin and Luciferase are bioluminescence.

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Luciferin

Luciferin is a generic term for the light-emitting compound found in organisms that generate bioluminescence. Aequorin and Luciferin are bioluminescence.

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Martin Chalfie

Martin Lee Chalfie (born January 15, 1947) is an American scientist.

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Memory and aging

Age-related memory loss, sometimes described as "normal aging" (also spelled "ageing" in British English), is qualitatively different from memory loss associated with types of dementia such as Alzheimer's disease, and is believed to have a different brain mechanism.

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Model organism

A model organism (often shortened to model) is a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made in the model organism will provide insight into the workings of other organisms.

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Molecular biology

Molecular biology is a branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions.

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Mouse

A mouse (mice) is a small rodent.

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NBC News

NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.

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New York Post

The New York Post (NY Post) is an American conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.

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Osamu Shimomura

was a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist, and professor emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University School of Medicine.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Peroxide

In chemistry, peroxides are a group of compounds with the structure, where the R's represent a radical (a portion of a complete molecule; not necessarily a free radical) and O's are single oxygen atoms.

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Photocyte

A photocyte is a cell that specializes in catalyzing enzymes to produce light (bioluminescence). Aequorin and photocyte are bioluminescence.

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Photometer

A photometer is an instrument that measures the strength of electromagnetic radiation in the range from ultraviolet to infrared and including the visible spectrum.

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Photoprotein

Photoproteins are a type of enzyme produced by bioluminescent organisms. Aequorin and Photoprotein are bioluminescence.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.

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Prosthetic group

A prosthetic group is the non-amino acid component that is part of the structure of the heteroproteins or conjugated proteins, being tightly linked to the apoprotein.

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Protein Data Bank

The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is a database for the three-dimensional structural data of large biological molecules such as proteins and nucleic acids, which is overseen by the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB).

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Rat

Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents.

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Recombinant DNA

Recombinant DNA (rDNA) molecules are DNA molecules formed by laboratory methods of genetic recombination (such as molecular cloning) that bring together genetic material from multiple sources, creating sequences that would not otherwise be found in the genome.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aequorin

Also known as Apoaeqorin, Apoaequorin, Aqueorin, Prevagen.

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Aequorin, the Glossary

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Bioluminescence

Cnidarian proteins

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