Neural and behavioral control in Caenorhabditis elegans by a yellow-light?activatable caged compound
Neural and behavioral control in Caenorhabditis elegans by a yellow-light?activatable caged compound
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黄光激活笼状化合物对秀丽隐杆线虫的神经和行为控制
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.2009634118
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2021
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Urano Yasuteru
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Takahashi Hironori;Kamiya Mako;Kawatani Minoru;Umezawa Keitaro;Ukita Yoshiaki;Niwa Shinsuke;Oda Toshiyuki;Urano Yasuteru
Caenorhabditis elegansis used as a model system to understand the neural basis of behavior, but application of caged compounds to manipulate and monitor the neural activity is hampered by the innate photophobic response of the nematode to short-wavelength light or by the low temporal resolution of photocontrol. Here, we develop boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY)-derived caged compounds that release bioactive phenol derivatives upon illumination in the yellow wavelength range. We show that activation of the transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) cation channel by spatially targeted optical uncaging of the TRPV1 agonistN-vanillylnonanamide at 580 nm modulates neural activity. Further, neuronal activation by illumination-induced uncaging enables optical control of the behavior of freely movingC. eleganswithout inducing a photophobic response and without crosstalk between uncaging and simultaneous fluorescence monitoring of neural activity.