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Whenever a flash of light hits the receptor, the pore opens, an electrical current is switched on, and the neuron fires electrical impulses.
And the daf-2 gene encodes a hormone receptor.
So what you see in the picture there is a cell with a hormone receptor in red punching through the edge of the cell.
Okay, so what is the daf-2 receptor telling the inside of the cell?
I just told you that, if you make a mutation in the daf-2 gene cell, that you get a receptor that doesn't work as well; the animal lives longer.
So that means that the normal function of this hormone receptor is to speed up aging.
The daf-2 hormone receptor is very similar to the receptor for the hormone insulin and IGF-1.
So after we made our discoveries with little C. elegans, people who worked on other kinds of animals started asking, if we made the same daf-2 mutation, the hormone receptor mutation, in other animals, will they live longer?
The receptor isn't working as well.
Well when the daf-2 receptor is active, then it triggers a series of events that prevent FOXO from getting into the nucleus where the DNA is.
As well, we could characterize the fungal receptor receiving those signals and part of the underlying reaction occurring within the fungus and leading to its direct growth toward the plant.
So doing the screen, we discovered one mutant that took much longer than normal to calm down after the air puffs, and when we examined the gene that was affected in this mutation, it turned out to encode a dopamine receptor.
So when we take away the dopamine receptor and the flies take longer to calm down, from that we infer that the normal function of this receptor and dopamine is to cause the flies to calm down faster after the puff.
Is that true of our dopamine receptor mutant flies?
Well, if you do this test on dopamine receptor mutant flies, they don't learn.
We take our dopamine receptor mutant flies and we genetically restore, or cure, the dopamine receptor by putting a good copy of the dopamine receptor gene back into the fly brain.
If we put a good copy of the dopamine receptor back in this elliptical structure called the central complex, the flies are no longer hyperactive, but they still can't learn.
On the other hand, if we put the receptor back in a different structure called the mushroom body, the learning deficit is rescued, the flies learn well, but they're still hyperactive.
Rather, it's acting to control two different functions on two different circuits, so the reason there are two things wrong with our dopamine receptor flies is that the same receptor is controlling two different functions in two different regions of the brain.
LSD and psilocybin both function like serotonin in the brain, binding directly to one type of serotonin receptor in particular.
We don't just have one kind of receptor.
Synthorx is working closely with my lab, and they're interested in a protein that recognizes a certain receptor on the surface of human cells.
But the problem is that it also recognizes another receptor on the surface of those same cells, and that makes it toxic.
So could we produce a variant of that protein where the part that interacts with that second bad receptor is shielded, blocked by something like a big umbrella so that the protein only interacts with that first good receptor?
When we see, it's because the energy of light stimulates a receptor in our eye called the retina.
The olfactory epithelium has a layer of olfactory receptor cells, special neurons that sense smells, like the taste buds of your nose.
As they dissolve, they bind to the olfactory receptor cells, which fire and send signals through the olfactory tract up to your brain.
It turns out that your brain has 40 million different olfactory receptor neurons, so odor A might trigger neurons 3, 427, and 988, and odor B might trigger neurons 8, 76, and 2,496,678.
This second airflow enters a region filled with highly specialized olfactory receptor cells, several hundred millions of them, compaired to our five million.
Several common anesthetics bind to the GABA-A receptor in the brain's neurons.
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