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NATURE METHODS
卷 14, 期 5, 页码 495-+出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NMETH.4234
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- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Academic Society of Geneva
- Private Foundation of the Geneva University Hospital
- European Research Council Advanced Grant (MeSSI)
- Kil Chung Hee Fellowship
- Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
Few tools exist to visualize and manipulate neurons that are targets of neuromodulators. We present iTango, a light- and ligand-gated gene expression system based on a light-inducible split tobacco etch virus protease. Cells expressing the iTango system exhibit increased expression of a marker gene in the presence of dopamine and blue-light exposure, both in vitro and in vivo. We demonstrated the iTango system in a behaviorally relevant context, by inducing expression of optogenetic tools in neurons under dopaminergic control during a behavior of interest. We thereby gained optogenetic control of these behaviorally relevant neurons. We applied the iTango system to decipher the roles of two classes of dopaminergic neurons in the mouse nucleus accumbens in a sensitized locomotor response to cocaine. Thus, the iTango platform allows for control of neuromodulatory circuits in a genetically and functionally defined manner with spatial and temporal precision.
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