Hot Plasmids - June 2019 - Optogenetics, Acoustic Reporter Genes, microRNAs, and the CRISPR-Cas9 system CHIME
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...synaptic transmission. Cleavage of VAMP2 renders it inactive, thus inhibiting neurotransmitter release....Plasmids podcast
Light-mediated block of synaptic transmission
Article contributed by Klaus Wanisch
Listen...enable VAMP2 cleavage, and suppresses neuronal transmission within minutes. Constructs using the photodimerizer...utility of light-mediated suppression of synaptic transmission in brain slices from mouse, and showed that ...recognized as important regulators of post-transcriptional gene expression across the majority of cellular...an unregulated fashion and thus a marker for transfection. The other (mKate2) is regulated in the 3’ UTR...