The red edge: bilin-binding photoreceptors as optogenetic tools and fluorescence reporters

K Tang, HM Beyer, MD Zurbriggen… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
This review adds the bilin-binding phytochromes to the Chemical Reviews thematic issue
“Optogenetics and Photopharmacology”. The work is structured into two parts. We first …

Red light optogenetics in neuroscience

K Lehtinen, MS Nokia, H Takala - Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Optogenetics, a field concentrating on controlling cellular functions by means of light-
activated proteins, has shown tremendous potential in neuroscience. It possesses superior …

Light-regulated gene expression in Bacteria: Fundamentals, advances, and perspectives

R Ohlendorf, A Möglich - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Numerous photoreceptors and genetic circuits emerged over the past two decades and now
enable the light-dependent ie, optogenetic, regulation of gene expression in bacteria …

Individual and shared digital repertoires–older adults managing digital services

R Hänninen, L Pajula, V Korpela… - … Communication & Society, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The rise of public and other non-recreational digital services is based on the idea of catering
to the daily needs of the citizens cost-efficiently and with ease. Previous research has …

Optical approaches for investigating neuromodulation and G protein–coupled receptor signaling

DJ Marcus, MR Bruchas, G Schulte - Pharmacological reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite the fact that roughly 40% of all US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved
pharmacological therapeutics target G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs), there remains a …

Comparative analysis of two paradigm bacteriophytochromes reveals opposite functionalities in two-component signaling

E Multamäki, R Nanekar, D Morozov… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bacterial phytochrome photoreceptors usually belong to two-component signaling systems
which transmit environmental stimuli to a response regulator through a histidine kinase …

Signal transduction in photoreceptor histidine kinases

A Möglich - Protein science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Two‐component systems (TCS) constitute the predominant means by which prokaryotes
read out and adapt to their environment. Canonical TCSs comprise a sensor histidine kinase …

Engineering bacteriophytochrome-coupled photoactivated adenylyl cyclases for enhanced optogenetic camp modulation

Q Xu, A Vogt, F Frechen, C Yi, M Küçükerden… - Journal of molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
Sensory photoreceptors abound in nature and enable organisms to adapt behavior,
development, and physiology to environmental light. In optogenetics, photoreceptors allow …

Nanobody-directed targeting of optogenetic tools to study signaling in the primary cilium

JN Hansen, F Kaiser, C Klausen, B Stüven, R Chong… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Compartmentalization of cellular signaling forms the molecular basis of cellular behavior.
The primary cilium constitutes a subcellular compartment that orchestrates signal …

Engineering signalling pathways in mammalian cells

AV Leopold, VV Verkhusha - Nature biomedical engineering, 2024 - nature.com
In mammalian cells, signalling pathways orchestrate cellular growth, differentiation and
survival, as well as many other processes that are essential for the proper functioning of …