https://pages.htgaa.org/2026a/flo-razoux/homework/week_04_hw/protein-analysis-and-visualisation/index.html1. PROTEIN OF INTEREST: FIREFLY LUCIFERASE For this week’s assignments, we will keep focusing on the first final project idea of creating bioluminescent menstrual blood. While it would be interesting to have a closer look at the structure of hemoglobin, the protein that facilitates the transportation of oxygen in erythrocytes (red blood cells) and gives its red color to human blood in visible light, we will keep studying the luciferin 4-monooxygenase. This enzyme, commonly known as firefly luciferase, catalyses the production of light through the oxidation of luciferin. The structure of this protein is simpler than hemoglobin, so this seems to be an ideal option to apply what has been covered in class this week. We might go back to hemoglobin, myoglobin and other proteins determining blood color later depending on how the project develops.Hugoen