Nature Communications (May 2017)

Thermogenetic neurostimulation with single-cell resolution

  • Yulia G. Ermakova,
  • Aleksandr A. Lanin,
  • Ilya V. Fedotov,
  • Matvey Roshchin,
  • Ilya V. Kelmanson,
  • Dmitry Kulik,
  • Yulia A. Bogdanova,
  • Arina G. Shokhina,
  • Dmitry S. Bilan,
  • Dmitry B. Staroverov,
  • Pavel M. Balaban,
  • Andrei B. Fedotov,
  • Dmitry A. Sidorov-Biryukov,
  • Evgeny S. Nikitin,
  • Aleksei M. Zheltikov,
  • Vsevolod V. Belousov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15362
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Current approaches to thermogenetic manipulation of neuronal activity lack sufficient spatiotemporal resolution. Here the authors show that neurons expressing snake TRPA1 channels are activated at high temporal resolution with IR light and this technique can be used to elicit behaviour in zebrafish larvae.