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The mechanism of electronic excitation in the bacterial bioluminescent reaction

E. V. Nemtseva^a, N. S. Kudryasheva<sup>b

a</sup> Department of Physics, Krasnoyarsk State University
^b Institute of Biophysics Siberian Branch of RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Akademgorodok

Abstract: The current state of the problem of formation of the electron-excited product in the chemiluminescent reaction that underlies the bacterial luminescence is analysed. Various schemes of chemical transformations capable of producing a bacterial bioluminescence emitter are presented. The problem of excitation of secondary emitters is considered; two possible mechanisms of their excitation are analysed.

Received: 25.05.2006

DOI: 10.1070/RC2007v076n01ABEH003648

 English version: Russian Chemical Reviews, 2007, 76:1, 91–100

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