FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution
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...presence induces first opsin inversion, and then lox sites excision, therefore locking the opsin into ...
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...is flanked (“floxed”) by two sets of incompatible recognition sites (e.g., loxP and lox511) in opposite...flip-excision) switch (aka DIO (Double-floxed Inverse Orientation) or DO (Double-floxed Orientation)) is a powerful...recombination at defined recognition sites (i.e., loxP and FRT, respectively) (Abremski and Hoess, 1984...however, Cre induces the recombination of the double-floxed opsin construct, thereby enabling its expression...
Van Duyne, Gregory D. "A structural view of cre-loxp site-specific recombination." Annual review of biophysics...