Using Ultrasound to Image Bacteria in vivo: Acoustic Reporter Genes
Type
Blog Post
Published
June 19, 2018, 1:38 p.m.
...Administration of Substrate: Some luciferase reporters, such as Renilla luciferase (RLuc) or NanoLuc, require...bacterial reporters that use fluorophores and luciferases to track bacteria in real time, but each of these...together genes from gas vesicle operons from two different bacteria, Bourdeau et al created two constructs... 1 (arg1) and acoustic gene 2 (arg2). The key difference between arg1 and arg2 vesicles is the amount ... invisible to ultrasound, which allows for differentiation of arg1 and arg2 ultrasound signals. This also...and arg2 plasmids are available from Addgene!
References
1 Bourdeau, R.W., Lee-Gosselin, A., Lakshmanan...Blog
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