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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2021

Exploiting Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Mycobacterium tuberculosis Biology.

David Giacalone, Lu Huang, Shumin Tan

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

David GiacaloneDepartment of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Lu HuangDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA.
Shumin TanDepartment of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA. shumin.tan@tufts.edu.

Funding

Study of the Cell-specific Inflammasome Responses During Defense Against Gram-negative BacteriaP20GM103625 · NIGMS · UNIV OF ARKANSAS FOR MED SCIS · PI SMELTZER, MARK S · 2012 to 2021
$21.5M
MOLECULAR GENETICS OF BASIC CELL FUNCTIONST32GM007310 · NIGMS · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI CAMILLI, ANDREW · 1987 to 2020
$3.9M
Mycobacterium tuberculosis environmental signal integration: single cell in vivo understanding of its influence on infection heterogeneity and treatment efficacyR01AI143768 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI TAN, SHUMIN · 2019 to 2023
$3.0M
An imaging approach to understanding the impact of heterogeneity in microenvironments and lesion properties during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infectionR21AI137759 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI TAN, SHUMIN · 2019 to 2020
$451k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI143768NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI137759NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103625NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007310
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The utility of fluorescent proteins in bacterial research has long been appreciated, with extensive use in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis field. In more recent years, a new generation of fluorescent tools has been developed for use in M. tuberculosis research. These new fluorescent reporters exploit the immense genetic and transcriptional knowledge now available, and enable the use of the bacteria as direct reporters of the local environment during infection, as well as provide insight into bacterial replication status in situ. Here we describe methods for the construction of such fluorescent reporter M. tuberculosis strains, and their use in combination with confocal microscopy and flow cytometry approaches for single bacterium-level analyses of M. tuberculosis physiology and M. tuberculosis-host interactions.

Indexed as

AnimalsFlow CytometryHost-Pathogen InteractionsLuminescent ProteinsLungMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMicroscopy, ConfocalMycobacterium tuberculosisTuberculosis, PulmonaryLuminescent ProteinsConfocal microscopyFlow cytometryFluorescent reportersHost-pathogen interactionsMycobacterium tuberculosis

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PMID34235663
PMCPMC8381720

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