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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 11.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Mol Biol. 2009;574:125–135. doi: 10.1007/978-1-60327-321-3_11

Table 1.

Luciferase enzymes

Luciferase Peak emission at
37°C (nm)
Substrate Size (amino acids)
Firefly (Photinus Pyralis) 612 D-luciferin 550
Renilla reniformis 480 Coelenterazine 310
Mutant Renilla reniformis
(RLuc8.6-535)
535 Coelenterazine 310
Gaussia princeps 480 Coelenterazine 185