Wood, K. V. (1995). The chemical mechanism and evolutionary development of beetle bioluminescence. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 62, 662–673. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-1097.1995.tb08714.x

Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Viviani, V. R. (2002). The origin, diversity and structure function relationships of insect luciferases. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 59, 1833–1850. https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00012509

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Ando, Y., Niwa, K., Yamada, N., Enomoto, T., Irie, T., Kubota, H., Ohmiya, Y., & Akiyama, H. (2008). Firefly bioluminescence quantum yield and colour change by pH-sensitive green emission. Nature Photonics, 2, 44–47. https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.251

Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Seliger, H. H., & McElroy, W. D. (1964). The colors of firefly bioluminescence: Enzyme configuration and species specificity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 52, 75–81. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.52.1.75

Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Viviani, V. R., & Bechara, E. J. H. (1995). Bioluminescence of Brazilian fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae): Spectral distribution and pH effect on luciferase-elicited colors. Comparison with elaterid and phengodid luciferases. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 62, 490–495. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-1097.1995.tb02373.x

Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Stanley, P. E. (1989). A review of the bioluminescent ATP techniques in rapid microbiology. Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence, 4, 375–380. https://doi.org/10.1002/bio.1170040151

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Lundin, A., Hallander, H., Kallner, A., Lundin, U. K., & Osterberg, E. (1989). Bacteriuria testing by the ATP method as an integral part in the diagnosis and therapy of urinary tract infection (UTI). Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence, 4, 381–389. https://doi.org/10.1002/bio.1170040152

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Campbell, A. K. (1988). Chemiluminescence: Principles and applications in biology and medicine. VCH.

Google Scholar 

Comhaire, F. H., Vermeulen, L., Monsieur, L., & Hinting, A. (1989). Determination of adenosine triphosphate in human semen to estimate the fertilizing potential and to quantify sperm antibodies. Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence, 4, 399–405. https://doi.org/10.1002/bio.1170040154

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Kovacs, F., & Mettenleiter, T. C. (1991). Firefly luciferase as a marker for herpesvirus (pseudorabies virus) replication in vitro and in vivo. The Journal of General Virology, 72, 2999–3008. https://doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-72-12-2999

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Viviani, V. R., & Ohmiya, Y. (2006). Beetle luciferases: Colorful lights on biological processes and diseases of referencing. In S. Daunert & S. K. Deo (Eds.), Photoproteins in bioanalysis (pp. 49–60). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/3527609148.ch3

Chapter  Google Scholar 

Andreu, N., Zelmer, A., Fletcher, T., Elkington, P. T., Ward, T. H., Riipoll, J., Parish, T., Bancroft, G. J., Schaible, U., Robertson, B. D., & Wiles, S. (2010). Optimization of bioluminescent reporters for use with Mycobacteria. PLoS ONE, 5, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010777

Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Horst, G. V. D., Asten, J. J., Figdor, A., Hoogen, C., Cheung, H., Bevers, R. F., Pelger, R. C., & Pluijm, G. (2011). Real-time cancer cell tracking by bioluminescence in a preclinical model of human bladder cancer growth and metastasis. European Urology, 60, 337–343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2011.05.005

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Gabriel, G. V., Yasuno, R., Mitani, Y., Ohmiya, Y., & Viviani, V. R. (2019). Novel application of Macrolampis sp2 firefly luciferase for intracellular pH-biosensing in mammalian cells. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 18, 1212–1217. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8pp00573g

Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Viviani, V. R., Pelentir, G. F., & Bevilaqua, V. R. (2022). Bioluminescence color-tuning firefly luciferases: Engineering and prospects for real-time intracellular pH imaging and heavy metal biosensing. Biosensor, 12, 400. https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12060400

Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Gabriel, G. V., & Viviani, V. R. (2016). Engineering the metal sensitive sites in Macrolampis sp2 firefly luciferase and use as a novel bioluminescent ratiometric biosensor for heavy metals. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 408, 8881–8893. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-016-0011-1

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Pelentir, G. F., Bevilaqua, V. R., & Viviani, V. (2019). A highly efficient, thermostable and cadmium selective firefly luciferase suitable for ratiometric metal and pH-biosensing and for sensitive ATP assays. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 18, 2061–2070. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9pp00174c

Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

de Wet, J. R., Wood, K. V., Helinsky, D. R., & DeLuca, M. (1985). Cloning of firefly luciferase cDNA and expression of active luciferase in Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 82, 7870. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.82.23.7870

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Tatsumi, H., Masuda, T., Kajiyama, N., & Nakano, E. (1989). Luciferase cDNA from Japanese firefly Luciola cruciata: Cloning, structure and expression in E. coli. Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence, 3(2), 75–78. https://doi.org/10.1002/bio.1170030208

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Tatsumi, H., Kajiyama, N., & Nakano, E. (1992). Molecular cloning and expression in Escherichia coli of a cDNA clone encoding luciferase of a firefly, Luciola lateralis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1131, 161. https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-4781(92)90071-7

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Devine, J. H., Kutuzova, G. D., Green, V. A., Ugarova, N. N., & Baldwin, T. O. (1993). Luciferase from the East European firefly Luciola mingrelica: Cloning and nucleotide sequence of cDNA, overexpression in E. coli and purification of the enzyme. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression, 1173, 121. https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-4781(93)90172-A

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Ohmiya, Y., Ohba, N., Toh, H., & Tsuji, F. I. (1995). Cloning, expression and sequence analysis o cDNA for the Japanese fireflies, Pyrocoelia miyako and Hotaria parvula. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 62, 309. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-1097.1995.tb05273.x

Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Sala-Newby, G. B., Thomson, C. M., & Campbell, A. K. (1996). Sequence and biochemical similarities between the luciferases of the glow-worm Lampyris noctiluca and the firefly, Photinus pyralis. The Biochemical Journal, 313, 761. https://doi.org/10.1042/bj3130761

Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Li, Y., Buck, L. M., Scaeffer, H. J., & Leach, F. R. (1997). Cloning and sequencing of a cDNA for the firefly luciferase from Photuris pennsilvanica. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology, 1339, 39. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-4838(96)00211-7

Article  Google Scholar 

Viviani, V. R., Silva, A. C. R., Perez, G. L. O., Santelli, R. V., Bechara, E. F. H., & Reinach, F. C. (1999). Cloning and molecular characterization of the cDNA for the Brazilian larval Clickbeetle Pyrearinus termitilluminans luciferase. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 70, 254. https://doi.org/10.1562/0031-8655(1999)070%3c0254:camcot%3e2.3.co;2

Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Viviani, V. R., Bechara, E. J. H., & Ohmyia, Y. (1999). Cloning, sequence analysis and expression of active Phrixothrix railroad-worms luciferases: Relationship between bioluminescence spectra and primary structures. Biochemistry, 38, 8271. https://doi.org/10.1021/bi9900830

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Viviani, V. R., Arnoldi, F. G., Brochetto-Braga, M., & Ohmiya, Y. (2004). Cloning and characterization of the cDNA for the Brazilian Cratomorphus distinctus larval firefly luciferase: Similarities with the European Lampyris noctiluca and Asiatic Pyrocoelia luciferases. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 139, 151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpc.2004.05.012

Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Viviani, V. R., Viviani, T. L., Oehlmeyer, T. L., Arnoldi, F. G. C., & Brochetto-Braga, M. R. (2005). A new firefly luciferase with bimodal spectrum: Identification of structural determinants of spectral sensitivity in firefly luciferases. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 81, 843. https://doi.org/10.1562/2004-12-09-RA-398R.1

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Viviani, V. R., Amaral, D., Prado, R. A., & Arnoldi, F. G. C. (2011). A new blue-shifted luciferase from the Brazilian Amydetes fanestratus (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) firefly: Molecular evolutional and structural/functional properties. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences (Print), 10, 1879–1886. https://doi.org/10.1039/C1PP05210A

Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Amaral, D. T., Prado, R. A., & Viviani, V. R. (2012). Luciferase from Fulgeochlizus bruchi (Coleoptera: Elateridae), a Brazilian click-beetle with a single abdominal lantern: Molecular evolution, biological function and comparison with other click-beetle luciferases. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 11, 1259. https://doi.org/10.1039/C2PP25037C

Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Alipour, B. S., Hosseinkhani, S., Nikkhah, M., NaderiManesh, H., Chaichi, M. J., & Osaloo, S. K. (2004). Molecular cloning, sequence analysis, and expression of a cDNA encoding the luciferase from the glow-worm, Lampyris turkestanicus. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 325, 215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.10.022

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Carvalho, M. C., Tomazini, A., Amaral, D. T., Murakami, M. T., & Viviani, V. R. (2020). Luciferase isozymes from the Brazilian (Lampyridae) firefly: Origin of efficient pH-sensitive lantern luciferases from fat body pH-insensitive ancestors. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 11, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0pp00272k

Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Moreira, A. C., Amaral, D. T., Gabriel, G. V. M., & Viviani, V. R. (2022). Cloning and molecular properties of a novel luciferase from the Brazilian Bicellonycha lividipennis (Lampyridae: Photurinae) firefly: Comparison with other firefly luciferases. Photochemical Sciences (Online), 21, 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43630-022-00240-0

Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Conti, E., Franks, N. P., & Brick, P. (1996). Crystal structure of firefly luciferase throws light on a superfamily of adenylate