Engineering Biological Systems for Light

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  • ISHIZUKA Toru
    Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences
  • EGAWA Ryo
    Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences
  • UMEDA Keiko
    Tohoku University Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences
  • SHOJI Wataru
    Tohoku University Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences
  • YAWO Hiromu
    Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences Center for Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine

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  • 生命機能の光エンジニアリング
  • セイメイ キノウ ノ ヒカリ エンジニアリング

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Since the discovery of channelrhodopsins in 2002-2003, the light is now engineered to manipulate physiological states of a cell, a tissue or a body with the progress of three kinds of researches: (1) molecular biology of photoreceptive proteins, (2) cause-effect relationships in the biological system and (3) fabrication of opto-electronics or nanodevices. The near-infrared light, which conveys energy deep into the tissues, is expected to be used for optogenetics with the creation of proteins that change their conformations with such energy or the improvement of nanodevices that transfer the energy to photoreceptive proteins.

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  • Seibutsu Butsuri

    Seibutsu Butsuri 55 (6), 311-316, 2015

    The Biophysical Society of Japan General Incorporated Association

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