New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression
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...have limited use in vivo because they are based on light which is very easily scattered by tissue. Ultrasound...modality with good tissue penetration depth as well as high spatial and temporal resolution, making it ideal...vesicle genes from Serratia sp. 39006 produced the highest levels of nonlinear acoustic contrast in E. coli...).
Gas vesicle expression in vivo is also straightforward: after the E. coli have colonized tumors, inject...Methods to assess bARGSer expression, from left to right: colony whiteness on inducer plates, white inclusions...We wanted to create second-generation mARGs with higher expression, a smaller genetic footprint, and nonlinear...chromatin-opening agents. It ended up being very straightforward to engineer various cell lines from different...