• DOI:10.2307/1542194
Corpus ID: 9424433

A short story of aequorin.

@article{Shimomura1995ASS,
  title={A short story of aequorin.},
  author={O. Shimomura},
  journal={The Biological bulletin},
  year={1995},
  volume={189 1},
  pages={
          1-5
        }
}

• O. Shimomura
• Published 1995
• Biology, Medicine
• The Biological bulletin

One day in the fall of 1960, shortly after my arrival at Princeton from Japan, Dr. Frank Johnson showed me a small jar containing a spoonful of white powder. He explained that the powder was a freeze dried “squeezate” made from the luminous jellyfish Aequorea, and that it would emit light when mixed with water. He asked me if I would be interested in studying the bioluminescence of this jellyfish. The powder did not emit any light when moistened. But I was quite impressed by Dr. Johnson’s… Expand

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