Nature Communications (May 2021)

Portable bioluminescent platform for in vivo monitoring of biological processes in non-transgenic animals

  • Aleksey Yevtodiyenko,
  • Arkadiy Bazhin,
  • Pavlo Khodakivskyi,
  • Aurelien Godinat,
  • Ghyslain Budin,
  • Tamara Maric,
  • Giorgio Pietramaggiori,
  • Sandra S. Scherer,
  • Marina Kunchulia,
  • George Eppeldauer,
  • Sergey V. Polyakov,
  • Kevin P. Francis,
  • Jeffrey N. Bryan,
  • Elena A. Goun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22892-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Bioluminescence imaging tends to rely on transgenic luciferase-expressing cells and animals. Here the authors report a portable bioluminescent system to non-invasively measure intra- and extracellular enzymes in vivo in non-transgenic animals which do not express luciferase.