Recent advances in engineering microbial rhodopsins for optogenetics

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 33, Issue , 2015, Pages 8-15

  McIsaac, R Scott ^a,c   Bedbrook, Claire N ^b   Arnold, Frances H ^a,b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Calico Life Sciences LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNELRHODOPSIN; CHANNELRHODOPSIN 1; CHANNELRHODOPSIN 2; CHLORIDE ION; POTASSIUM ION; PROTON PUMPING RHODOPSIN; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHIMERA; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GENE MUTATION; ION TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MUTAGENESIS; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ANIMALS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MAMMALS; NEURONS; OPTOGENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RHODOPSINS, MICROBIAL;

EID: 84936971581     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2015.05.001     Document Type: Review

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