Red-shifted optogenetic excitation: a tool for fast neural control derived from Volvox carteri (original) (raw)
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- Matthias Prigge2,
- Florent Beyrière2,
- Satoshi P Tsunoda2,
- Joanna Mattis1,
- Ofer Yizhar1,
- Peter Hegemann2 &
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- Karl Deisseroth1
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The introduction of two microbial opsin–based tools, channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2) and halorhodopsin (NpHR), to neuroscience has generated interest in fast, multimodal, cell type–specific neural circuit control. Here we describe a cation-conducting channelrhodopsin (VChR1) from Volvox carteri that can drive spiking at 589 nm, with excitation maximum red-shifted ∼70 nm compared with ChR2. These results demonstrate fast photostimulation with yellow light, thereby defining a functionally distinct third category of microbial rhodopsin proteins.
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F.Z. is supported by the US National Institutes of Health, F.B. by the Erasmus Program and O.Y. by the European Molecular Biology Organization. K.D. is supported by the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine and the Snyder, Coulter, McKnight and Albert Yu Foundations, as well as by the US National Science Foundation and US National Institutes of Health. P.H. is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
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Feng Zhang, Joanna Mattis, Ofer Yizhar & Karl Deisseroth - Institute of Biology, Experimental Biophysics, Humboldt-University, Invalidenstraße 42, Berlin, D-10115, Germany
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Zhang, F., Prigge, M., Beyrière, F. et al. Red-shifted optogenetic excitation: a tool for fast neural control derived from Volvox carteri.Nat Neurosci 11, 631–633 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.2120
- Received: 21 March 2008
- Accepted: 14 April 2008
- Published: 23 April 2008
- Issue Date: June 2008
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.2120