The chemical reagents used in this study are as follows: 100 μM nifedipine (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO; N7634); 500 μM gadolinium chloride (Sigma-Aldrich, G7532); 10 μM SKF96365 (Sigma-Aldrich, S7809); 1 M EGTA (Sigma-Aldrich, E4378); 500 μM lanthanum chloride (Sigma-Aldrich, L4131); 2 μM ω-Agatoxin IVA (Tocris, Bristol, UK; 2799); 2 μM SNX 482 (Tocris, 2799); 10 μM ω-Conotoxin GVIA (Alomone Labs, C-300); 10 μM U0126 (Sigma-Aldrich, U120); 50 mM potassium chloride (Sigma-Aldrich, P3911); 100 nM AP24534 (Tocris, 4274); 25 μM trifluoperazine dihydrochloride (Sigma Aldrich, T8516).
The following plasmids were purchased from Addgene: pGP-CMV-GCaMP6s was a gift from Douglas Kim (Addgene plasmid # 40753)33 (link); pGP-CMV-GCaMP6s-CAAX was a gift from Tobias Meyer (Addgene plasmid # 52228)34 (link); AAV-CAG-GFP was a gift from Karel Svoboda (Addgene plasmid # 28014)35 (link). The generation procedures for ERK1-dTomato construct were described previously36 (link). AAV-CAG-GCaMP6s-CAAX was cloned by replacing the GFP sequence in the AAV-CAG-GFP vector with GCaMP6s-CAAX PCR amplicon flanked BamHI/HindIII restriction sites. pHelper, and pAAV-RC1 plasmids were purchased from Cell Biolabs. RaichuEV-HRas FRET biosensor was kindly gifted from Dr. M. Matsuda (Kyoto University).
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