ChR2 converted into a light-gated chloride channel

[Srini Turaga]

Looks like they've made a version of ChR2 which is inhibitory!

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> Date: April 24, 2014 11:20:55 PM GMT+01:00
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> Deisseroth paper: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6182/420
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> Hegemann paper: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2014/03/26/science.1249375.full
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> Perspective by Hayashi: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6182/369.full
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> More background: http://www.hhmi.org/news/researchers-build-new-switch-shut-down-neural-activity
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> Deisseroth profile in the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/22/science/mind-control-in-a-flash-of-light.html
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[Ritwik Niyogi]

Karl Deisseroth just presented it at this meeting in Denmark. Exciting !

 

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