Kleptoprotein bioluminescence: <i>Parapriacanthus</i> fish obtain luciferase from ostracod prey

Manabu Bessho‐Uehara, Naoyuki Yamamoto, Shuji Shigenobu, Hitoshi Mori, Keiko Kuwata, Yuichi Oba

Science Advances · 2020 · 39 citations · 37 references

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, demonstrated the specific uptake of the luciferase to the fish's light organs. This "kleptoprotein" system allows an organism to use novel functional proteins that are not encoded in its genome and provides an evolutionary alternative to DNA-based molecular evolution.

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