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There are special proteins that do produce light by themselves (bioluminescence; no excitation light is necessary). An example is the aequorin-GFP-complex (GFP, green fluorescent protein) that naturally occurs in the jellyfish Aequorea victoria. Interestingly, the famous paper by Shimomura that identified GFP as a protein only mentioned GFP in one sentence because the paper was primarily dealing with luminescent aequorin. Because the operating principles and measurement techniques are different from those of fluorescent probes, they are discussed in their own chapter.
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Kaestner, L. (2013). Aequorin-based measurements. In: Calcium signalling. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34617-0_4
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