Reproducible and sustained regulation of Gαs signalling using a metazoan opsin as an optogenetic tool.

Originally developed to regulate neuronal excitability, optogenetics is increasingly also used to control other cellular processes with unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution. Optogenetic modulation of all major G-protein signalling pathways (Gq, Gi and Gs) has been achieved using variants of mamma...

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Main Authors: Helena J Bailes, Ling-Yu Zhuang, Robert J Lucas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3265508?pdf=render