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ArticleCell chemical biology2022

Real-time non-invasive fluorescence imaging of gut commensal bacteria to detect dynamic changes in the microbiome of live mice.

Alexis J Apostolos, Mahendra D Chordia, Sree H Kolli, Brianna E Dalesandro, Melanie R Rutkowski, Marcos M Pires

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Article in Cell chemical biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alexis J ApostolosDepartment of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA.
Mahendra D ChordiaDepartment of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA.
Sree H KolliDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA.
Brianna E DalesandroDepartment of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA.
Melanie R RutkowskiDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA.
Marcos M PiresDepartment of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA. Electronic address: mpires@virginia.edu.
University of Virginia · US

Funding

Women's Oncology Program - WONP30CA044579 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CHARLOTTESVILLE · PI Jay William FOX · 1987 to 2026
$72.1M
Unraveling Bacterial Cell Wall Biosynthesis and Sensing via Synthetic AnalogsR35GM124893 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI Marcos M. Pires · 2017 to 2026
$3.6M
TLR5 signaling as a conserved mechanism of impaired anti-tumor immunityR01CA253285 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI RUTKOWSKI, MELANIE R · 2021 to 2025
$2.0M
Gut microbiome-mediated differences within the pre-malignant mammary tissue environment enhance early breast tumor metastasisR01CA262634 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI Melanie R Rutkowski · 2023 to 2026
$1.8M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA044579NCI NIH HHS R01 CA253285NCI NIH HHS R01 CA262634NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM124893
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In mammals, gut commensal microbiota interact extensively with the host, and the same interactions can be dysregulated in diseased states. Animal imaging is a powerful technique that is widely used to diagnose, measure, and track biological changes in model organisms such as laboratory mice. Several imaging techniques have been discovered and adopted by the research community that provide dynamic, non-invasive assessment of live animals, but these gains have not been universal across all fields of biology. Herein, we describe a method to non-invasively image commensal bacteria based on the specific metabolic labeling of bacterial cell walls to illuminate the gut bacteria of live mice. This tagging strategy may additionally provide unprecedented insight into cell wall turnover of gut commensals, which has implications for bacterial cellular growth and division, in a live animal.

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bacterial cell surfacegut microbiotanear infrared imagingpeptidoglycan

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PMCPMC10239791
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