The structure of the excited light-emitter in aequorin bioluminescence was assigned not to an amide anion of coelenteramide but to a phenolate anion on the basis of the luminescence of regenerated aequorin and of the fluorescence of regenerated blue fluorescent protein with coelenteramide analogues including N-methyl derivatives.
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Hirano et al. (1994) studied this question.