Optogenetics

Part I Light-Sensing Proteins.- 1 History and Perspectives of Light-Sensing Proteins (Hideki Kandori).- 2 Biology of Light-Sensing Proteins in Plants and Microorganisms (Mineo Iseki and Tetsuo Takahashi).- 3 Structure-Functional Analysis of Channelrhodopsins (Hideaki E. Kato, Ryuichiro Ishitani, and Osamu Nureki).- 4 Photochemistry of Halorhodopsin (Takashi Kikukawa, Naoki Kamo, and Makoto Demura).- 5 Molecular Mechanisms for Ion Transportation of Microbial Rhodopsins Studied by Light-Induced Difference FTIR Spectroscopy (Yuji Furutani).- 6 Optogenetic Potentials of Diverse Animal Opsins (Akihisa Terakita, Takashi Nagata, Tomohiro Sugihara, and Mitsumasa Koyanagi).- 7 Color Tuning in Retinylidene Proteins (Kota Katayama, Sivakumar Sekharan, and Yuki Sudo).- Part II Optogenetics in Biological Systems.- 8 General Description: Future Prospects of Optogenetics (Hiromu Yawo, Ryo Egawa, Shoko Hososhima, and Lei Wen).- 9 Optogenetic Manipulation and Probing (Masamichi Ohkuraand Junichi Nakai).- 10 Probing Neuronal Activity Using Genetically Encoded Red Fluorescent Calcium Indicators (Takuya Sasaki).- 11 Optogenetic Sensors for Monitoring Intracellular Chloride (Ken Berglund, Lei Wen, and George J. Augustine).- 12 Optogenetic Imaging of Protein Activity in the Synapse by Using 2-photon Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (Hideji Murakoshi and Akihiro C E Shibata).- 13 Optogenetics in Drosophila (Hiroshi Kohsaka and Akinao Nose).- 14 Optogenetics in Caenorhabditis elegans (Yuki Tsukada and Ikue Mori).- 15 Optogenetics Research Using the Mouse as a Model System (Kenji F. Tanaka).- Part III Optogenetics in Neuroscience.- 16 Neuroscientific Frontline of Optogenetics (Akihiro Yamanaka).- 17 Elucidation of Neuronal Circuitry Involved in the Regulation of Sleep/Wakefulness Using Optogenetics (Tomomi Tsunematsu and Akihiro Yamanaka).- 18 Optogenetic Analysis of Striatal Connections to Determine Functional Connectomes (Nao Chuhma).- 19 Potentialof