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Watasenia scintillans coelenterazine disulfonate has an imidazopyrazinone skeleton. Besides the firefly and bacteria bioluminescence, the bioluminescence coming from imidazopyrazinone derivatives-based luciferin or luminescent substrate of photoprotein is the most known one, which covers eight phyla, i.e. radiolaria, cnidaria, chordata, ctenophora, mollusca, arthropoda, echinodermata, and chaetognatha. The oxygenation process is not only crucial to Watasenia scintillans bioluminescence, but also a general step in almost all oxygen-dependent bioluminescence systems, such as firefly, sea firefly, jellyfish, Obelia, and bacteria |
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