Recent Advances in the Study of Gas Vesicle Proteins and Application of Gas Vesicles in Biomedical Research. [PDF]
Life (Basel), 2022 The formation of gas vesicles has been investigated in bacteria and haloarchaea for more than 50 years. These air-filled nanostructures allow cells to stay at a certain height optimal for growth in their watery environment. Several gvp genes are involved
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Modification of PEG reduces the immunogenicity of biosynthetic gas vesicles. [PDF]
Front Bioeng Biotechnol, 2023 Nanobubbles have received great attention in ultrasound molecular imaging due to their capability to pass through the vasculature and reach extravascular tissues.
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Biosynthetic Gas Vesicles from Halobacteria NRC-1: A Potential Ultrasound Contrast Agent for Tumor Imaging. [PDF]
Pharmaceutics, 2022 Ultrasound contrast agents are valuable for diagnostic imaging and drug delivery. Generally, chemically synthesized microbubbles (MBs) are micro-sized particles.
Wei M, Lai M, Zhang J, Pei X, Yan F.
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Archaeosomes and Gas Vesicles as Tools for Vaccine Development. [PDF]
Front Immunol, 2021 Archaea are prokaryotic organisms that were classified as a new domain in 1990. Archaeal cellular components and metabolites have found various applications in the pharmaceutical industry.
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Probing the Cyanobacterial Microcystis Gas Vesicles after Static Pressure Treatment: A Potential In Situ Rapid Method. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2020 The vertical migration trend of cyanobacterial cells with gas vesicles in water ecosystems can reflect the changes in the natural environment, such as temperature, nutrients, light conditions, etc.
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Ultrasound Imaging Properties of Heterologously Synthesized Gas Vesicles from Halophilic Archaeon. [PDF]
Nanomaterials (Basel)Biosynthetic gas vesicles (GVs), as novel nanoscale ultrasound contrast agents, exhibit unique potential in biomedical ultrasound imaging. For example, they are expected to have better tissue penetration through the tumor vasculature for detecting tumor ...
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Ultrasound contrast agents from microbubbles to biogenic gas vesicles. [PDF]
Med Rev (2021), 2023 Microbubbles have been the earliest and most widely used ultrasound contrast agents by virtue of their unique features: such as non-toxicity, intravenous injectability, ability to cross the pulmonary capillary bed, and significant enhancement of echo ...
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The model cyanobacteria Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 possess an intact but partially degenerated gene cluster encoding gas vesicles. [PDF]
BMC Microbiol, 2020 Background Bacterial gas vesicles, composed of two major gas vesicle proteins and filled with gas, are a unique class of intracellular bubble-like nanostructures. They provide buoyancy for cells, and thus play an essential role in the growth and survival
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Characterization and Comparison of Contrast Imaging Properties of Naturally Isolated and Heterologously Expressed Gas Vesicles [PDF]
Pharmaceuticals (Basel)Nanoscale ultrasound contrast agents have attracted considerable interest in the medical imaging field for their ability to penetrate tumor vasculature and enable targeted imaging of cancer cells by attaching to tumor-specific ligands.
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Elucidating the assembly of gas vesicles by systematic protein-protein interaction analysis. [PDF]
EMBO JGas vesicles (GVs) are gas-filled microbial organelles formed by unique 3-nm thick, amphipathic, force-bearing protein shells, which can withstand multiple atmospheric pressures and maintain a physically stable air bubble with megapascal surface tension.
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