Optogenetic silencing of neurotransmitter release with a naturally occurring invertebrate rhodopsin
Mathias Mahn, Inbar Saraf‐Sinik, Pritish Patil, Mauro Pulin, Eyal Bitton, Nikolaos Karalis, Felicitas Bruentgens, Shaked Palgi, Asaf Gat, Julien Dine, Jonas Wietek, Ido Davidi, Rivka Levy, Anna Litvin, Fangmin Zhou, , Ofer Yizhar
This paper introduces eOPN3, a modified mosquito rhodopsin that suppresses synaptic transmission with high spatiotemporal precision in vivo.
bioRxiv · Feb 18, 2021 · PreprintNeuroscience