title: Determination of the luciferin contents in luminous and non-luminous beetles.
abstract: The contents of firefly luciferin in luminous and non-luminous beetles were determined by the methods of HPLC with fluorescence detection and the luminescence reaction of luciferin and firefly luciferase. Luminous cantharoids and elaterids contained various amounts of luciferin in the range of pmol to hundreds of nmol, but no luciferin was detected in the non-luminous cantharoids and elaterids.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan. oba@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Yuichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Oba
authors.forename: Takeru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shintani
authors.forename: Takanori
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ojika
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Inouye
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D001517:Coleoptera / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism; D049454:Firefly Luciferin / Q000032:analysis* / Q000378:metabolism; D005453:Fluorescence; D008156:Luciferases / Q000378:metabolism; D049449:Luminescence
chemical_list: D049454:Firefly Luciferin; D008156:Luciferases