TY  - CHAP
AU  - Isacoff, Ehud Y.
AU  - Kramer, Richard H.
AU  - Trauner, Dirk
ED  - Hegemann, Peter
ED  - Sigrist, Stephan
AB  - The transmembrane proteins that underlie neural processing are now known at a level of detail that has greatly increased our understanding of these sophisticated molecular machines. Starting with MacKinnon’s seminal structure of a potassium channel, several voltage-gated ion channels and ionotropic receptors have been revealed with atomic resolution (Figure 3.1) [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. This has been complemented by structures of G-protein coupled receptors, adding opsins and metabotropic receptors to the ever-increasing repertoire of transmembrane proteins elucidated with structural biology [7, 8, 9, 10]. As a consequence of this structural revolution and recent advances in pharmacology, Nature’s molecular machines can now be manipulated with relative ease. This can be done, for instance, via synthetic on-off switches or tuning elements that are attached to the signaling protein of interest to allow for its orthogonal control with non-natural input signals. Amongst these signals, light is particularly useful, since it is unmatched in terms of temporal and spatial precision and techniques for the delivery and control of light are highly developed.
DO  - 10.1515/9783110270723.35
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006383
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135847271
KW  - Biophysics
KW  - Genetic Engineering
KW  - Neuroscience
KW  - Optics
KW  - Vision Restoration
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/6cae823e-98cc-4705-af40-10f9c2199fcd/45_[9783110270723 - Optogenetics] 3 Challenges.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23759
PB  - De Gruyter
PP  - Berlin/Boston
PY  - 2013
SN  - 9783110270716
TI  - Chapter 3 Challenges and opportunities for optochemical geneticsnull
ER  - 
