Red-shifting mutation of light-driven sodium-pump rhodopsin

Microbial rhodopsins are photoreceptive and widely used in optogenetics for which they should preferable function with longer-wavelength light. Here, authors achieve a 40-nm red-shift in the absorption wavelength of a sodium-pump rhodopsin (KR2) by altering the distribution of the retinal chromophor...

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Main Authors: Keiichi Inoue, María del Carmen Marín, Sahoko Tomida, Ryoko Nakamura, Yuta Nakajima, Massimo Olivucci, Hideki Kandori
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/7d99be2cdaae43c989fdc8fa3c812f03
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Summary:Microbial rhodopsins are photoreceptive and widely used in optogenetics for which they should preferable function with longer-wavelength light. Here, authors achieve a 40-nm red-shift in the absorption wavelength of a sodium-pump rhodopsin (KR2) by altering the distribution of the retinal chromophore.