Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

BiPOLES is an optogenetic tool developed for bidirectional dual-color control of neurons

  • Johannes Vierock,
  • Silvia Rodriguez-Rozada,
  • Alexander Dieter,
  • Florian Pieper,
  • Ruth Sims,
  • Federico Tenedini,
  • Amelie C. F. Bergs,
  • Imane Bendifallah,
  • Fangmin Zhou,
  • Nadja Zeitzschel,
  • Joachim Ahlbeck,
  • Sandra Augustin,
  • Kathrin Sauter,
  • Eirini Papagiakoumou,
  • Alexander Gottschalk,
  • Peter Soba,
  • Valentina Emiliani,
  • Andreas K. Engel,
  • Peter Hegemann,
  • J. Simon Wiegert

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24759-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Currently, bidirectional control of activity in the same neurons in the same experiment is difficult. Here the authors report a Bidirectional Pair of Opsins for Light-induced Excitation and Silencing, BiPOLES, which they use in a range of organisms including worms, fruit flies, mice and ferrets.