Magnetic resonance imaging of tumors colonized with bacterial ferritin-expressing Escherichia coli.

BACKGROUND: Recent studies have shown that human ferritin can be used as a reporter of gene expression for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Bacteria also encode three classes of ferritin-type molecules with iron accumulation properties. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Here, we investigated whether these bact...

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Main Authors: Philip J Hill, Jochen Stritzker, Miriam Scadeng, Ulrike Geissinger, Daniel Haddad, Thomas C Basse-Lüsebrink, Uwe Gbureck, Peter Jakob, Aladar A Szalay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3184983?pdf=render