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This image depict the two reactions that luciferase can catalyze. The first being the bioluminencent pathway producing a photon of light and the second, following a mechanism similar to fatty acid synthase, producing a Dehydroluciferyl-CoA. <ref>Nakamura, Mitsuhiro, Shojiro Maki, Yoshiharu Amano, Yutaka Ohkita, Kazuki Niwa, Takashi Hirano, Yoshihiro Ohmiya, and Haruki Niwa. "Firefly luciferase exhibits bimodal action depending on the luciferin chirality." Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 331.2 (2005): 471-75. Web.</ref>