Violacein as a genetically-controlled, enzymatically amplified and photobleaching-resistant chromophore for optoacoustic bacterial imaging

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jiang, Yuanyuan ^a   Sigmund, Felix ^a   Reber, Josefine ^a   Deán Ben, Xosé Luís ^a   Glasl, Sarah ^a   Kneipp, Moritz ^a,b   Estrada, Héctor ^a   Razansky, Daniel ^a,b   Ntziachristos, Vasilis ^a,b   Westmeyer, Gil G ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; VIOLACEIN;

CHROMOBACTERIUM; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INDOLES; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84934918187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11048     Document Type: Article

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