A bacterial phytochrome-based optogenetic system controllable with near-infrared light

Nature Methods

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 591-597

  Kaberniuk, Andrii ^a   Shemetov, Anton A ^a   Verkhusha, Vladislav V ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BILIVERDIN; PHYTOCHROME; PHYTOCHROME BPHP1; PHYTOCHROME PPSR2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDRODYNAMICS BASED TRANSFECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LIGHT; MALE; MAMMAL CELL; MOUSE; NEAR INFRARED LIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; INFRARED RADIATION; METABOLISM; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BILIVERDINE; FEMALE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; LIGHT; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; OPTOGENETICS; PHYTOCHROME; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 84966480803     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.3864     Document Type: Article

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