Bright and photostable chemigenetic indicators for extended in vivo voltage imaging

Abstract

Imaging the changes in fluorescence of voltage-sensitive reagents would enable monitoring of the activity of neurons in vivo. Abdelfattah et al. created such a voltage indicator by designing a protein that combines the voltage sensor domain from microbial rhodopsin with a domain that captures a dye molecule with exceptional brightness and photostability. When the protein was expressed in mice, flies, or zebrafish, they could monitor single action potentials in dozens of neurons simultaneously for many minutes.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Aug 16, 2019
Source ID
10.1126/science.aav6416

Entities

People

  • Ahmed S Abdelfattah
  • Amrita Singh
  • Bei-jung Lin
  • Brett D. Mensh
  • Eric R Schreiter
  • Gabe J. Murphy
  • Glenn C Turner
  • Hui Liu
  • Jianing Yu
  • Jihong Zheng
  • Johannes Friedrich
  • John J. Macklin
  • Jonathan Grimm
  • Karel Svoboda
  • Kaspar Podgorski
  • Liam Paninski
  • Luke Campagnola
  • Luke D. Lavis
  • Minoru Koyama
  • Misha B Ahrens
  • Ondřej Novák
  • Ronak Patel
  • Stephanie C Seeman
  • Takashi Kawashima
  • Tsai-wen Chen
  • Yi-Chieh Huang
  • Yichun Shuai
  • Zhe Liu

Organizations

  • Allen Institute for Brain Science
  • Columbia University
  • Flatiron Institute
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • National Science and Technology Council
  • National Yang-Ming University
  • Simons Foundation

Tags

Readers

  • Chemistry (specifically Chemical Fluorescence)
  • Medical Imaging.
  • Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology