1 Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997, Moscow, Russia. purtovk@mail.ru.
2 Institute of Biophysics, Krasnoyarsk Research Center, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 660036, Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. purtovk@mail.ru.
3 Institute of Biophysics, Krasnoyarsk Research Center, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 660036, Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
4 Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997, Moscow, Russia.
This paper presents the preliminary results of the separation of the Chaetopterus variopedatus bioluminescent system into luciferin and luciferase and a brief description of some of their properties.