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:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10000-x