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SCIENCE
Volume 349, Issue 6248, Pages 647-650Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa7484
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- NIH [R01GM027750, R21MH098288, S10RR022531]
- UTHealth BRAIN Initiative grant
- Hermann Eye Fund
- Endowed Chair from the Robert A. Welch Foundation [AU-0009]
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Light-gated rhodopsin cation channels from chlorophyte algae have transformed neuroscience research through their use as membrane-depolarizing optogenetic tools for targeted photoactivation of neuron firing. Photosuppression of neuronal action potentials has been limited by the lack of equally efficient tools for membrane hyperpolarization. We describe anion channel rhodopsins (ACRs), a family of light-gated anion channels from cryptophyte algae that provide highly sensitive and efficient membrane hyperpolarization and neuronal silencing through light-gated chloride conduction. ACRs strictly conducted anions, completely excluding protons and larger cations, and hyperpolarized the membrane of cultured animal cells with much faster kinetics at less than one-thousandth of the light intensity required by the most efficient currently available optogenetic proteins. Natural ACRs provide optogenetic inhibition tools with unprecedented light sensitivity and temporal precision.
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