Rhodopsin-bestrophin fusion proteins from unicellular algae form gigantic pentameric ion channels
Andrey Rozenberg, Igor Kaczmarczyk, Donna Matzov, Johannes Vierock, Takashi Nagata, Masahiro Sugiura, Kota Katayama, Yuma Kawasaki, Masae Konno, Yujiro Nagasaka, Mako Aoyama, Ishita Das, Efrat Pahima, Jonathan R. Church, Suliman Adam, Veniamin A. Borin, Ariel Chazan, Sandra Augustin, Jonas Wietek, Julien Dine, Yoav Peleg, Akira Kawanabe, Yuichiro Fujiwara, Ofer Yizhar, Mordechai Sheves, Igor Schapiro, Yuji Furutani, Hideki Kandori, Keiichi Inoue, Peter Hegemann, Oded Béjà, Moran Shalev-Benami
Topics & Concepts
RhodopsinChromophoreTransmembrane domainBiophysicsIon channelChemistryVisual phototransductionTransmembrane proteinSubfamilyBiologyBiochemistryRetinalMembraneReceptorPhotochemistryGenePhotoreceptor and optogenetics researchbioluminescence and chemiluminescence researchNeural dynamics and brain function