New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression
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Blog Post
Published
Jan. 24, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
...are Acoustic Reporter Genes (ARGs)?
Fluorescent and bioluminescent reporter genes are widely used to study...Lab - developed Acoustic Reporter Genes (ARGs), which are sets of genes that, when expressed, enable cells... vivo.
But what ultrasound lacked was reporter genes that could produce ultrasound contrast. That is,...gas vesicle-expressing species. The gas vesicle genes from Serratia sp. 39006 produced the highest levels...bARGSer expression, from left to right: colony whiteness on inducer plates, white inclusions in cells with...cell line with strong gas vesicle expression and robustness without chromatin-opening agents. It ended up...being very straightforward to engineer various cell lines from different tissues and mammalian species to ...