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Autonomous bioluminescent systems: prospects for use in the imaging of living organisms

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1 Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia

2 Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Aleksandr S. Shcheglov
Miklukho-Маklaya, 16/10, Moscow, 117997; ur.liam@trakuj

About paper

Funding: the study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (Grant №17-14-01169).

Acknowledgements: we thank to the Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine (Moscow) for the genetic research methods.

Author contribution: Osipova ZM, Shcheglov AS — literature analysis, article authoring; Yampolsky IV — study planning, manuscript editing.

Received: 2019-12-03 Accepted: 2019-12-12 Published online: 2019-12-20
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Fig. 1. Biochemical cycles of autonomous bioluminescence in bacteria (A) and fungi (B)