Channelrhodopsins with improved light sensitivity for minimally-invasive optogenetics
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Blog Post
Published
Nov. 3, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
...recombinant channelrhodopsin sequences. The model first removed sequences from the library predicted to...reducing the library to 1,161 sequences. Thirty of these remaining sequences were selected for characterization...to have improved photocurrent properties:
The sequence and structures that determine membrane expression...model was trained to predict if a channelrhodopsin sequence would result in a functional channelrhodopsin,...library of ~120,000 predicted channelrhodopsin sequences would have photocurrent properties best suited...for less-invasive optogenetics experiments. The sequences in this library were designed using structural...