Atomistic design of microbial opsin-based blue-shifted optogenetics tools

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kato, Hideaki E ^a,f   Kamiya, Motoshi ^b   Sugo, Seiya ^b   Ito, Jumpei ^c   Taniguchi, Reiya ^a   Orito, Ayaka ^c   Hirata, Kunio ^d   Inutsuka, Ayumu ^c   Yamanaka, Akihiro ^c   Maturana, Andrés D ^c   Ishitani, Ryuichiro ^a   Sudo, Yuki ^e   Hayashi, Shigehiko ^b   Nureki, Osamu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RIKEN SPring 8 Center   (Japan)

^e OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; ION; RHODOPSIN; SCOTOPSIN; SHORT-WAVELENGTH OPSIN;

COLOR; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGY; PROTEIN;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; COLOR; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HYBRID; ION TRANSPORT; MUTATION; OPTOGENETICS; SIMULATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEK293 CELL LINE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

MACULINEA ARION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; IONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NEURONS; OPSINS; OPTOGENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RHODOPSIN; ROD OPSINS; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84929376675     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8177     Document Type: Article

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