Major advantages of using coelenterazine and its analogues for calcium detection include the elimination of autofluorescence, photobleaching and biological degradation
Coelenterazine and its analogues provide major advantages for luminescent calcium detection, says Anaspec.
A Ca2+-binding protein, aequorin, can be found in the jellyfish Aequorea victoria umbrella's outer margin.
This photoprotein consists of an apoprotein (apoaequorin), molecular oxygen and coelenterazine.
Aequorin contains three binding sites for calcium.
When calcium ions bind to these sites, they catalyse the oxidation of coelenterazine to coelenteramide, releasing a blue-fluorescent protein product.
The major advantages of using coelenterazine and its analogues for calcium detection include the elimination of autofluorescence, photobleaching and biological degradation since they do not require light excitation.
Additionally, they offer a wide detection range.
Coelenterazine and its analogues have been used in transgenic cells expressing apoaequorin for the detection of Ca2+.
The Renilla luciferase also oxidises coelenterazine and its analogues to yield a blue fluorescent protein.
AnaSpec offers the following coelenterazines (native and analogues) which have different Ca2+ sensitivities and emission wavelengths:.
Coelenterazine UltraPure Grade.
Coelenterazine cp UltraPure Grade.
Coelenterazine f UltraPure Grade.
Coelenterazine h UltraPure Grade.
Coelenterazine hcp UltraPure Grade.
Coelenterazine n UltraPure Grade.
Coelenterazine sampler kit UltraPure Grade.
Other calcium detection reagents:.
UV-excitable calcium indicators: Fura-2, Indo-1.
Visible light-excitable calcium indicators: Fluo-3, Rhod-2, Calcein.
Non-luminescent calcium indicator: Pluronic F-127.
