luciferin

But I’m ninety-nine percent sure he has no idea what luciferin is.

Both sets of organisms stabilize luciferin by adding sulfur to its chemical structure, even though the sulfur-adding proteins are very different, she has found.

The team say that is important as the process involves a luciferin produced from a chemical that is naturally present in plants – caffeic acid.

You need some sort of luciferin, a molecule that can emit light.

Hirata asked him to extract and purify a compound, luciferin, which enables the tiny marine crustacean Cypridina to glow in the dark.