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Structural and functional roles of the N- and C-terminal extended modules in channelrhodopsin-1.
Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology - 26 Sept 2015
Doi Satoko, Mori Arisa, Tsukamoto Takashi, Reissig Louisa, Ihara Kunio, Sudo Yuki
Abstract excerpt
Channelrhodopsins have become a focus of interest because of their ability to control neural activity by light, used in a technology called optogenetics. The channelrhodopsin in the eukaryote Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (CrChR-1) is a light-gated cation channel responsible for motility changes upon photo-illumination and a member of the membrane-embedded retinal protein family. Recent crystal structure analysis...
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