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2012

Optogenetic insights into social behavior function. Yizhar O. Biol Psychiatry. 2012 Jun 15;71(12):1075-80. (PDF)

Recombinase-driven rat lines: tools, techniques, and optogenetic application to dopamine-mediated reinforcement. Witten IB, Steinberg EE, Lee SY, Davidson TJ, Zalocusky KA, Brodsky M, Yizhar O, Cho SL, Gong S, Ramakrishnan C, Stuber GD, Tye KM, Janak PH, Deisseroth K. Neuron. 2011 Dec 8;72(5):721-33. (PDF)

Principles for applying optogenetic tools derived from direct comparative analysis of microbial opsins. Mattis J, Tye KM, Ferenczi EA, Ramakrishnan C, O'Shea DJ, Prakash R, Gunaydin LA, Hyun M, Fenno LE, Gradinaru V, Yizhar O, Deisseroth K. Nature Methods. 2011 Dec 18;9(2):159-72. (PDF)

The microbial opsin family of optogenetic tools. Zhang F, Vierock J, Yizhar O, Fenno LE, Tsunoda S, Kianianmomeni A, Prigge M, Berndt A, Cushman J, Polle J, Magnuson J, Hegemann P, Deisseroth K. Cell. 2011 Dec 23;147(7):1446-57. (PDF)

Crystal structure of the channelrhodopsin light-gated cation channel. Kato HE, Zhang F, Yizhar O, Ramakrishnan C, Nishizawa T, Hirata K, Ito J, Aita Y, Tsukazaki T, Hayashi S, Hegemann P, Maturana AD, Ishitani R, Deisseroth K, Nureki O. Nature. 2012 Jan 22;482(7385):369-74 . (PDF)

2011

A new mode of corticothalamic transmission revealed in the Gria4(-/-) model of absence epilepsy. Paz JT, Bryant AS, Peng K, Fenno L, Yizhar O, Frankel WN, Deisseroth K, Huguenard JR. Nat Neurosci. 2011 Aug 21;14(9):1167-73.

Neocortical excitation/inhibition balance in information processing and social dysfunction. Yizhar O*, Fenno LE*, Prigge M, Schneider F, Davidson TJ, O’Shea DJ, Sohal VS, Goshen I, Finkelstein J, Paz JT, Stehfest K, Fudim R, Ramakrishnan C, Huguenard JR, Hegemann P, Deisseroth K. Nature 2011 Jul 27; 477(7363):171-8. (PDF) (News & Views)

An Optogenetic Toolbox for Primates. Diester I, Kaufman M, Pashaie R, Mogri M, Goo W, Ramakrishnan C, Yizhar O, Deisseroth K, Shenoy KV. Nat Neurosci. 2011 Mar;14(3):387-97. Epub 2011 Jan 30. (PDF)

Optogenetics in Neural Systems. Yizhar O, Fenno LE, Davidson TJ, Mogri M, Deisseroth K. Neuron. 2011 Jul 14;71(1):9-34. (PDF)

The Development and Application of Optogenetics. Fenno LE, Yizhar O, Deisseroth K. Ann Rev Neurosci 2011; 34:389-412 Link to full text

Microbial opsins - A Family of Single-Component Tools for Optical Control of Neural Activity Yizhar O, Fenno LE, Zhang F, Hegemann P, Deisseroth K. (2010). In “Imaging In Neuroscience and Development: A Laboratory Manual” (eds. Rafael Yuste and Arthur Konnerth). Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2011 Mar 1;2011 (Link to full text)

2010

Tuning arousal with optogenetic modulation of locus coeruleus neurons. Carter ME, Yizhar O, Nguyen H, Chikahisa S, Nishino S, Deisseroth K, de Lecea L. Nat Neurosci. 2010 Dec;13(12):1526-33. (PDF)

Ultrafast optogenetic excitation. Gunaydin LA*, Yizhar O*, Berndt A*, Sohal VS, Deisseroth K, Hegemann P. Nat Neurosci. 2010 Mar;13(3):387-92. (PDF)

2009

Parvalbumin neurons and gamma rhythms enhance cortical circuit performance. Sohal VS*, Zhang F*, Yizhar O, Deisseroth K. Nature. 2009 Jun 4;459(7247):698-702. (PDF)

Bi-stable neural state switches. Berndt A*, Yizhar O*, Gunaydin LA*, Hegemann P, Deisseroth K. Nat Neurosci. 2009 Feb;12(2):229-34. (PDF)

Friends and foes in synaptic transmission – the role of Tomosyn in vesicle priming. Ashery U, Barak B, Bielopolsky N, Yizhar O. Trends Neurosci. 2009 May;32(5):275-82 Review

2008

Red-shifted optogenetic excitation: a tool for fast neural control derived from Volvox carteri. Zhang F, Prigge M, Beyrière F, Tsunoda SP, Mattis J, Yizhar O, Hegemann P, Deisseroth K. Nat Neurosci. 2008 Jun;11(6):631-3. Epub 2008 Apr 23.

Modulating vesicle priming reveals that vesicle immobilization is necessary but not sufficient for fusion-competence. Yizhar O., Ashery U. PLoS ONE. 2008 Jul 16;3(7):e2694.

2004-2007

Multiple functional domains are involved in tomosyn regulation of exocytosis. Yizhar O., Lipstein N., Gladycheva S.E., Matti U., Ernst S.A., Rettig J., Stuenkel E.L., Ashery U. J Neurochem. 2007 Oct;103(2):604-16.

Receptor-mediated regulation of tomosyn-Syntaxin1A interactions in bovine adrenal chromaffin cells. Gladycheva S.E., Lam A.D., Liu J., D’andrea-Merrins M., Yizhar O., Lentz S.I., Ashery U., Ernst S.A., Stuenkel E.L. J Biol Chem. 2007 Aug 3;282(31):22887-99.

Nonconventional Trafficking of Ras Associated with Ras Signal Organization. Ashery U, Yizhar O, Rotblat B, Kloog Y. Traffic. 2006 Sep;7(9):119-26. Review.

Spatiotemporal Organization of Ras Signaling: Rasosomes and the Galectin Switch. Ashery U, Yizhar O, Rotblat B, Elad-Sfadia G, Barkan B, Haklai R, Kloog Y. Cell Mol Neurobiol. 2006 Jul-Aug;26(4-6):471-95. Review

Ion interaction at the pore of Lc-type Ca2+ channel is sufficient to mediate depolarization-induced exocytosis. Lerner I., Trus M., Cohen R., Yizhar O., Nussinovitch I., Atlas D. J. Neurochem. 2006 Apr;97(1):116-27.

Ras and its signals diffuse through the cell on randomly moving nanoparticles. Rotblat B.*, Yizhar O.*, Haklai R., Ashery U., Kloog Y. Cancer Res. 2006 Feb 15;66(4):1974-81.

Involvement of Sir2/4 in silencing of DNA breakage and recombination on mouse YACs during yeast meiosis. Klieger Y., Yizhar O., Zenvirth D., Shtepel-Milman N., Snoek M., Simchen G. Mol Biol Cell. 2005 Mar;16(3):1449-55.

Tomosyn inhibits priming of large dense-core vesicles in a calcium-dependent manner. Yizhar O.*, Matti U.*, Melamed R., Hagalili Y., Bruns D., Rettig J., Ashery U. PNAS. 2004 Feb 24;101(8):2578-83.