Restoration of patterned vision with an engineered photoactivatable G protein-coupled receptor

Autor: Michael H. Berry, Amy Holt, Joshua Levitz, Johannes Broichhagen, Benjamin M. Gaub, Meike Visel, Cherise Stanley, Krishan Aghi, Yang Joon Kim, Kevin Cao, Richard H. Kramer, Dirk Trauner, John Flannery, Ehud Y. Isacoff
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01990-7
Popis: To restore sight after retinal degeneration, one approach is to express light-sensitive proteins in remaining cells. Here the authors combine a light-sensitive engineered G protein-coupled receptor and ion channels to restore ON and OFF responses as well as superior visual pattern discrimination.
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