[EinNYC]

Luciferase is a light producing enzyme responsible for the glow in fireflies and various other terrestrial and marine organisms with glowing lights or organs. What's the big deal about it?

[reasonisfaith]

I don’t know. It has a dark ring to it or something. Can’t quite explain.

[WMarshal]

They might add Luciferase to the mRNA injection to aid in autopsies to see where in the corpse that the mRNA in the jab migrated in the body, what tissues it concentrates in, and if it stays in the cytoplasm of the cell or has entered the cell nucleus.

Luciferase is a generic term for the class of oxidative enzymes that produce bioluminescence, and is usually distinguished from a photoprotein. Luciferases are widely used in biotechnology, for microscopy and as reporter genes, for many of the same applications as fluorescent proteins. However, unlike fluorescent proteins, luciferases do not require an external light source, but do require addition of luciferin, the consumable substrate.

In the luciferase reaction, light is emitted when luciferase acts on the appropriate luciferin substrate. Photon emission can be detected by light sensitive apparatus such as a luminometer or modified optical microscopes. This allows observation of biological processes. Since light excitation is not needed for luciferase bioluminescence, there is minimal autofluorescence and therefore virtually background-free fluorescence.Therefore, as little as 0.02 pg can still be accurately measured using a standard scintillation counter.

In biological research, luciferase is commonly used as a reporter to assess the transcriptional activity in cells that are transfected with a genetic construct containing the luciferase gene under the control of a promoter of interest. Additionally, proluminescent molecules that are converted to luciferin upon activity of a particular enzyme can be used to detect enzyme activity in coupled or two-step luciferase assays. Such substrates have been used to detect caspase activity and cytochrome P450 activity, among others.

if Luciferase is truly in the jab is no other reason for it to be in the jab.

[Cold Heart]

The question is not “what’s”, it is “why”.

[Hootowl99]

Yep, that's what luciferase is...An enzyme extracted from firefly tails. IIRC it gives off a precise flash of light from the conversion of nadpH to nadp, which only occurs in living cells.

In the 1980s, I developed a bacterial toxicity measurement test using luciferase that was very precise in measuring toxic chemical affects to bacteria in industrial wastewater treatment plants. The idea was to precisely determine maximum chemical concentrations that could feed into biological aeration tanks and what the recovery characteristics would be after a shock load.

I haven't kept up with it but at the time, luciferase was extremely expensive although only a few milligrams were used per individual sample. The firefly's were harvested by hiring high school and college students to run through corn fields chasing firefly's with butterfly nets in the summer.