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Kinetic evaluation of photosensitivity in bi-stable variants of chimeric channelrhodopsins.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Hososhima Shoko, Sakai Seiichiro, Ishizuka Toru, Yawo Hiromu
Abstract excerpt
Channelrhodopsin-1 and 2 (ChR1 and ChR2) form cation channels that are gated by light through an unknown mechanism. We tested the DC-gate hypothesis that C167 and D195 are involved in the stabilization of the cation-permeable state of ChRWR/C1C2 which consists of TM1-5 of ChR1 and TM6-7 of ChR2 and ChRFR which consists of TM1-2 of ChR1 and TM3-7 of ChR2. The cation permeable state of each ChRWR and ChRFR was...
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