Channelrhodopsins with improved light sensitivity for minimally-invasive optogenetics
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Blog Post
Published
Nov. 3, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
...still depolarize neurons at lower MOIs.
Figure 2: ChRgers are delivered by intravenous injection into... “designer” channelrhodopsins with desired characteristics. The model was trained to predict if a channelrhodopsin...these remaining sequences were selected for characterization with patch clamp electrophysiology. All thirty...named ChRger1, ChRger2, and ChRger3, were then characterized further by expression in cultured neurons and...performed well in a tissue culture dish, that doesn’t guarantee their success in vivo. Therefore, the Arnold and...