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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015
Filed:
May. 02, 2013
Applicant:
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Karl Deisseroth, Stanford, CA (US);
Ofer Yizhar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Lief Fenno, San Francisco, CA (US);
Peter Hegemann, Falkensee, DE;
Matthias Prigge, Berlin, DE;
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07K 19/00 (2006.01); C07K 14/405 (2006.01); G01N 33/50 (2006.01); C12N 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C07K 19/00 (2013.01); C07K 14/405 (2013.01); C12N 13/00 (2013.01); G01N 33/5058 (2013.01); A01K 2217/052 (2013.01); A01K 2227/105 (2013.01); A01K 2267/0393 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided herein are compositions comprising light-activated chimeric proteins expressed on plasma membranes and methods of using the same to selectively depolarize excitatory or inhibitory neurons.