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The tiny air-filled bubbles some photosynthetic microorganisms use as flotation devices could be engineered into powerful biomedical applications. Rice University bioengineers created a road map of the protein-protein interactions that give rise to the formation of these gas vesicles in microorganisms. Part of the process involved using bioluminescence as a tool for gauging protein-protein interactions.
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(Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)
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