Abstract
Current medicine might be greatly enhanced by the ability to in vivo control and monitor neurons using opsins/phytochromes expressed in neural cells. The fundamental challenge with non-invasive neural cell activity regulation is a high absorption of visible light into biological tissues. This drawback could be mitigated by the photoconversion of phytochromes in spectral ranges with higher tissue transparency. In this study, we first demonstrated two-photon Pr-Pfr conversion of monomeric phytochrome at 1.2 µm wavelength. We did a comparison of linear and nonlinear conversion of truncated DrBphP bacterial phytochromes. This work provides a structured understanding of the optical properties of the dimer and monomer of phytochrome as well as their potential for use in optogenetics.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 126272T |
Journal | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
Volume | 12627 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 11 Aug 2023 |
Event | European Conferences on Biomedical Optics 2023: Translational Biophotonics: Diagnostics and Therapeutics - Munich, Germany Duration: 25 Jun 2023 → 29 Jun 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work has been supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No.863214 – NEUROPA project. D.I.G. acknowledges the Rank Prize for the Return to Research grant.
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Keywords
- Adimer
- iRFP
- Monomer
- Nonlinear conversion
- Optogenetics
- Pfr state
- Phytochrome
- Pr state
- Tunable ultra-short pulsed laser
- Two-photon photoconversion