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CRISPR-Mediated Zebrafish Mutagenesis

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Mutant zebrafish lines (syngap1b and slc7a5) were created by microinjections of ribonucleic proteins (RNPs) composing of Cas9 enzyme coupled with single guide RNAs (gRNAs) (Integrated DNA Technologies, Coralville, IA, United States) following the manufacturer’s protocol (Integrated DNA Technologies; see Supplementary Table S1 for description of gRNAs). Microinjections were performed at the one-cell stage as previously described (Jao et al., 2013 (link)) using needles from a micropipette puller (Model P-97, Sutter Instruments, Novato, CA, United States), and an air injector (Pneumatic MPPI-2 Pressure Injector, Eugene, OR). Injection mixes contained 1.30 μl of Cas9 enzyme (20 μM, New England BioLabs), 1.60 of prepared gRNAs, 2.5 μl of 4x Injection Buffer (0.2% phenol red, 800 mM KCl, 4 mM MgCl2, 4 mM TCEP, 120 mM HEPES, pH 7.0), and 4.6 μl of nuclease-free water. In the slc7a5 “pooled” experiment, we injected embryos from the same crosses with three gRNAs (1.60 μl for each) and compared to a “mock” injected with the same mix sans gRNAs.
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Cardiomyocyte Calcium Dynamics Monitoring

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CTT-A and CTT-B peptides were dissolved in PBS solution at a concentration of 10 μM. Freshly isolated wild type mouse cardiomyocytes were loaded with 5 μM Fluo-4 AM. Microinjection pipettes made of borosilicate glass (Sutter Instrument Co.) were prepared using a micropipette puller (Model P-97, Sutter Instrument Co.). The microfilament inside the pipette ensures that the solution reaches the tip for microinjection. The tip pore of the pipette was adjusted to allow for delivery of 10–20 pico liter of peptide solution in 60 ms using a picospritzer (Parker Instrumentation) coupled to PatchMan micromanipulator (Eppendorf). Changes in intracellular [Ca]i were monitored under a BioRad confocal microscope.
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Genetic Manipulation of Zebrafish Using CRISPR-Cas9

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Mutant zebrafish lines (syngap1b and slc7a5) were created by microinjections of ribonucleic proteins (RNPs) comprising Cas9 enzyme coupled with single guide RNAs (gRNAs) (Integrated DNA Technologies, Coralville, IA) following the manufacturer's protocol (Integrated DNA Technologies; see Table S3 for description of gRNAs). Microinjections were performed at the one-cell stage as previously described [7] , using needles from a micropipette puller (Model P-97, Sutter Instruments, Novato, CA), and an air injector (Pneumatic MPPI-2 Pressure Injector, Eugene, OR). Injection mixes contained 1.30 µl of Cas9 enzyme (20 µM, New England BioLabs), 1.60 µl of prepared gRNAs, 2.5 µl of 4x Injection Buffer (0.2% phenol red, 800 mM KCl, 4 mM MgCl 2 , 4 mM TCEP, 120 mM HEPES, pH 7.0), and 4.6 µl of nuclease-free water.
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Fabrication of Nanoelectrospray Printing Nozzles

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Printing nozzles were fabricated by pulling borosilicate capillaries (World Precision Instruments TW100‐4) to an outer diameter of ~2–3 µm (Sutter Model P‐97). The capillaries were then rendered conductive by a thin coating of Ti/Au (5 and 50 nm) via e-beam evaporation. To print, the nozzles are back-filled with an ink and moved to a working distance ~10 μm from the substrate. The sample is positioned on a conductive grounded plate and electrohydrodynamic ejection is induced by applying a square wave voltage of 250–350 Vp at 1 kHz to the nozzle. All printing was performed under ambient conditions (23 °C, 30–45% relative humidity). The printing setup used for this work is equipped with a confocal laser microscope for in-situ visual inspection. The pulse length, voltage applied to the nozzle, and stage position are controlled using a custom-built control unit.
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Multimodal Neurophysiological Recordings in Locusts

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Electroantennograms (EAG) were obtained by inserting a saline-filled sharp glass electrode (resistance ~ 10 MΩ) into the antenna and a silver-chloride ground electrode into one eye and were recorded by a DC amplifier (Model 440; Brown-Lee Precision, San Jose, CA). To make LFP and patch clamp recordings, a wax cup was built around the head to hold a bath of locust ringer solution, and a small section of the cuticle was then removed to expose the brain26 (link). To record LFPs, a blunt glass, saline-filled electrode was placed above the calyx of the mushroom body. For whole-cell patch clamp recordings, patch electrodes were pulled from borosilicate glass capillaries by a pipette puller (Model P-97; Sutter Instruments), with the program parameters tuned to produce an electrode resistance around 6 MΩ when filled with locust internal solution27 (link) that was adjusted to osmolarity of about 350. Data were recorded through a MultiClamp 700A microelectrode amplifier and digitized via Digidata 1322A. Stimulus delivery and recordings were controlled by our custom LabView program running on a data acquisition PC.
EAG recordings and patch clamp recordings from PNs and LNs were obtained from 6 consecutive trials with each odor, and LFP responses were recorded in 10 trials with each odor. All experiments were conducted on awake animals.
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Flexible Brain Implant Insertion Protocol

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Our laboratory, where animal experiments are conducted, and the animal housing facilities have been subject to inspection by The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). The IACUC has carefully reviewed and granted approval for the animal protocols used in this research, which is conducted under the project name AC-AABE5554 (development of high-density, implantable recording, imaging, and stimulating arrays). For the implantation procedure, WT mice (Strain: 00664, obtained from The Jackson Laboratory) were used. Surgery protocol is explained elsewhere (38 (link)). Once the cranial opening is performed, the flexible amplifiers were then laminated onto the brain. To facilitate the insertion process, a borosilicate glass pipette (1.5-mm diameter) was prepared using a Sutter Instrument Model P-97 to have an outer tip diameter of 10 μm. This glass carrier pipette was used to insert the flexible shank via a through-hole at the tip of the shank.
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Zebrafish Embryo Microinjection for Genetic Manipulation

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Wild-type NHGRI-1 fish were bred and maintained using standard procedures (LaFave et al., 2014 (link)). Embryos were obtained by natural spawning and staged as described (Kimmel et al., 1995 (link)). All zebrafish works were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Office of Animal Welfare Assurance, University of California, Davis.
In vitro transcribed capped RNAs were prepared using the mMessage mMachine RNA Synthesis Kit (AM1340, Thermo Fisher Scientific) and purified using the RNeasy Mini Kit (74104, Qiagen, Germantown, MD) following manufacturers' instructions.
Microinjection of RNA was performed as described (Jao et al., 2012 (link)). In brief, one-cell-stage embryos from wild-type zebrafish intercrosses were injected with the following amounts of in vitro transcribed RNA: Cas9, 400 pg; Kif26b, 400 pg; Wnt5a, 150 pg. Pipettes were pulled on a micropipette puller (Model P-97, Sutter Instruments, Novato, CA). Injections were performed with an air injection apparatus (Pneumatic MPPI-2 Pressure Injector, Eugene, OR). Injected volume (typically ~1 nl) was calibrated with a microruler.
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Overexpression Assay in X. laevis Oocytes

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X. laevis females were anesthetized with 1% MS222 (tricaine methane sulfonate, pH 7), and pieces of ovary were surgically removed and cultured in OR2 medium (26 (link)) at 16°. Manually separated oocytes were microinjected at the animal pole with 100 pg of plasmid in a 2.4 nL volume using the Nanoject II microinjection apparatus (Drummond Scientific). Needles were pulled from capillary tubes (0.5-mm inner diameter, 1.2-mm outer diameter) with a horizontal micropette puller (model P-97; Sutter Instrument). Different amounts of competitor plasmid were coinjected: 100, 250, 500, 750, and up to 1,000 pg. Injection of more than 1,000 pg of plasmids was often lethal for oocytes. At 48 h after injection, oocytes were dissected in OR2 isolation solution (83 mM KCl, 17 mM NaCl, 6.0 mM Na2HPO4, 4.0 mM KH2PO4, 1 mM MgCl2, 1.0 mM DTT, pH 7.8). Nuclei and cytoplasms were collected on dry ice before adding TRIzol for RNA extraction.
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Microinjection of Figla siRNA in Mouse Oocytes

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Secondary follicles collected from four mice were combined and randomly distributed to the negative control siRNA and Figla siRNA injection groups, and siRNA was microinjected into the oocytes of secondary follicles as previously reported54 . Specifically, intact follicles were placed in M2 medium (M-7167, Sigma-Aldrich) droplets prepared in a microinjection chamber. Injection needles were prepared using a puller (Model P-97, Sutter instrument, US) with the following protocol: heat = 655, pull = 85, vel = 120, del = 110, pressure 300. An injection needle was filled with siRNA reagent and placed on a manipulator (ONM-2D, Narishige, Japan) set on an inverted microscope (IX71, Olympus, Japan). Follicles were held, the injection needle penetrated the cytoplasm of the oocyte, and siRNA reagent was injected with one shot of the FemtoJet (Eppendorf, Germany). After the microinjection, 12–13 follicles were placed on collagen-coated inserts (Transwell COL #3493, Corning, US) set in 12-well plates containing 2 ml of IVG medium in each well and incubated for 12 days (37 °C, 5% CO2) as previously described55 (link) with slight modifications. The medium around the filter was changed every 4 days.
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Voltage-clamp characterization of Bma-SLO-1 channels

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Two-electrode voltage-clamp electrophysiology was used to record currents produced by activation of the expressed Bma-SLO-1 channels. Recordings from water injected oocytes served as control experiments. Recordings were made using an Axoclamp 2B amplifier (Warner Instruments, USA) with the oocytes voltage-clamped at +20 mV, and data acquired on a computer with Clampex 10.3 (Molecular Devices, CA, USA). The microelectrodes used to impale the oocytes were pulled using a Flaming/Brown horizontal electrode puller (Model P-97, Sutter Instruments, USA) set to pull micropipettes that when filled with 3 M KCl had a resistance of 20–30 MΩ. The micropipettes tips were carefully broken with a piece of tissue paper in order to achieve a resistance of 2–5 MΩ in recording solution (100 mM NaCl, 2.5 mM KCl, 1 mM CaCl2.2H2O and 5 mM HEPES, pH 7.3). The low resistance pipettes allowed large currents to be passed to maintain adequate voltage-clamp.
Emodepside used in this study was obtained from Bayer Animal Health. Potassium channel inhibitor iberiotoxin from Sigma Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA). The drugs were solubilized in DMSO and diluted in recording solution.
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