Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Activity-dependent expression of Channelrhodopsin at neuronal synapses

  • Francesco Gobbo,
  • Laura Marchetti,
  • Ajesh Jacob,
  • Bruno Pinto,
  • Noemi Binini,
  • Federico Pecoraro Bisogni,
  • Claudia Alia,
  • Stefano Luin,
  • Matteo Caleo,
  • Tommaso Fellin,
  • Laura Cancedda,
  • Antonino Cattaneo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01699-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Changes to subsets of dendritic spines are thought to be important for memory formation. Here, the authors develop a hybrid RNA/protein tool that allows for optogenetic stimulation of single synapses that have been tagged in an activity-dependent manner