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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2012

In vivo excitation of nanoparticles using luminescent bacteria.

Joe Dragavon, Samantha Blazquez, Abdessalem Rekiki, Chelsea Samson, Ioanna Theodorou, Kelly L Rogers, Régis Tournebize, Spencer L Shorte

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Joe DragavonPlate-Forme d'Imagerie Dynamique, Imagopole, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 Rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 Paris cedex 15, France. joseph.dragavon@pasteur.fr
Samantha Blazquez
Abdessalem Rekiki
Chelsea Samson
Ioanna Theodorou
Kelly L Rogers
Régis Tournebize
Spencer L Shorte
Institut Pasteur · FRVanderbilt University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The lux operon derived from Photorhabdus luminescens incorporated into bacterial genomes, elicits the production of biological chemiluminescence typically centered on 490 nm. The light-producing bacteria are widely used for in vivo bioluminescence imaging. However, in living samples, a common difficulty is the presence of blue-green absorbers such as hemoglobin. Here we report a characterization of fluorescence by unbound excitation from luminescence, a phenomenon that exploits radiating luminescence to excite nearby fluorophores by epifluorescence. We show that photons from bioluminescent bacteria radiate over mesoscopic distances and induce a red-shifted fluorescent emission from appropriate fluorophores in a manner distinct from bioluminescence resonance energy transfer. Our results characterizing fluorescence by unbound excitation from luminescence, both in vitro and in vivo, demonstrate how the resulting blue-to-red wavelength shift is both necessary and sufficient to yield contrast enhancement revealing mesoscopic proximity of luminescent and fluorescent probes in the context of living biological tissues.

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FluorescenceLuminescenceAnimalsEscherichia coliFemaleLuminescent AgentsLuminescent MeasurementsMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMolecular ImagingNanoparticlesQuantum DotsStaphylococcus aureusLuminescent Agents

Identifiers

PMID22615349
PMCPMC3384150
OpenAlexW2062191160

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