FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution
Type
Blog Post
...promoter upstream of an opsin gene (e.g., channelrhodopsin-2, ChR2) fused to a reporter gene (e.g., mCherry...Atasoy, Deniz, et al. "A FLEX switch targets Channelrhodopsin-2 to multiple cell types for imaging and long-range...the correct orientation to be transcribed (Figure 2) (Sharma and Zhu, 2014).
How does FLEx enable strong...
Abdallah, Khaled, et al. "Adeno-associated virus 2/9 delivery of Cre recombinase in mouse primary afferents...Microbial rhodopsins are encoded by opsin genes, and include bacteriorhodopsins, halorhodopsins, and channelrhodopsins... 50 years ago with the discovery of microbial rhodopsins, light-sensitive proteins that absorb photons...light (Zhang et al., 2011).
What do microbial rhodopsins and neurons have in common? Neuronal stimulations...