ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Similarities and differences between the Chaetopterus variopedatus polychaete luciferases depending on the type of habitat
1 Institute of Biophysics, Krasnoyarsk Science Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2 Shemyakin–Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia
3 Pacific State Medical University, Vladivostok, Russia
4 Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia
Correspondence should be addressed: Aleksandr S. Shcheglov
Miklukho-Maklaya, 16/10, Moscow, 117997; ur.liam@trakuj
Acknowlegements: we would like to thank Anderson Oliveira, Professor, and Jeremy Mirza, junior researcher at the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo for assistance in collecting the biomass of Brazilian polychaetes, and Kirill Vinnikov, Director at the Institute of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Federal University, for advice on the Chaetopterus taxonomy.
Author contribution: Purtov KV, Petushkov VN, Rodionova NS — luciferase extraction; Chepurnykh TV — DNA extraction, PCR; Kozhemyako VB — biomass collection and preparation for luciferase extraction; Zagitova RI, Shcheglov AS — studying the properties of luciferases; Ziganshin RH — mass spectrometry; Tsarkova AS — overall project management.