为从发光生物中分离出的发光性蛋白质。它不是虫荧光素、虫荧光酶那种酶蛋白质催化所引起的发光，而是通过低分子物质催化而发光的蛋白质。
该种基因使水母能够在发光蛋白质的作用下发光。
This gene enables the jellyfish to glow with the bioluminescent protein aequorin.
虽然不含有随处可得的荧光素，他们含有一种叫做“发光蛋白”，实际上就是和氧气连接的荧光素蛋白质。
Instead of having freely available luciferin, they contain molecules called photoproteins which are, in effect, luciferin proteins that already have oxygen bound to them.
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