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-<table style="background-color:#ffffc0" cellpadding="8" width="95%" border="0"><tr><td>Please do NOT make changes to this Sandbox until after April 23, 2010. Sandboxes 151-200 are reserved until then for use by the Chemistry 307 class at UNBC taught by Prof. [[User:Andrea Gorrell|Andrea Gorrell]].</td></tr>
+'''Lingulodinium polyedrum dinoflagellate luciferase'''
-James Jones
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+Lingulodinium polyedrum, a marine dinoflagellate often responsible for red tide, posesses a unique-domain luciferase enyzme. When mechanically stimulated, the organism uses this enzyme to produce a blue light, likely for use in quorum sensing.
-'''Lingulodinium polyedrum dinoflagellate luciferase domain'''
+== Introduction ==
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+In ''L. polyedrum'', the luciferase enzyme is an [x] amino acid, [x] domain, polypeptide.