{"id":1218,"date":"2020-08-18T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T19:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shapirolabnew.che.caltech.edu\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2020-08-18T12:11:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T19:11:20","slug":"acoustic-biosensors-of-enzyme-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/?p=1218","title":{"rendered":"Acoustic biosensors of enzyme activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NCB_Cover900.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NCB_Cover900-226x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"257\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1251\" \/><\/a>Congratulations to Anu, Zhiyang, Suchita and colleagues on their new paper in <em>Nature Chemical Biology<\/em> describing the first acoustic biosensors. These biosensors turn on nonlinear ultrasound contrast in response to protease activity. This allows the action of enzymes such as TEV, Calpain and ClpXP to be visualized in cells deep inside the body.<\/p>\n<p>Lakshmanan A#, Jin Z#, Nety SP, Sawyer DP, Lee-Gosselin A, Malounda D, Swift MB, Maresca D, Shapiro MG*. <strong>Acoustic biosensors for ultrasound imaging of enzyme activity.<\/strong> <em>Nature Chemical Biology<\/em> 16, 988-986 (2020).<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41589-020-0591-0\">article<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/rdcu.be\/b5AwN\">readcube<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bioengineeringcommunity.nature.com\/posts\/imaging-enzyme-activity-in-deep-tissue-with-acoustic-biosensors\">behind the paper<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/about\/news\/imaging-enzyme-activity-ultrasound\">press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Anu, Zhiyang, Suchita and colleagues on their new paper in Nature Chemical Biology describing the first acoustic biosensors. These biosensors turn on nonlinear ultrasound contrast in response to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}