Proton-transporting heliorhodopsins from marine giant viruses

Proton-transporting heliorhodopsins from marine giant viruses

Rhodopsins convert light into signals and energy in animals and microbes. Heliorhodopsins (HeRs), a recently discovered new rhodopsin family, are widely present in archaea, bacteria, unicellular eukaryotes, and giant viruses, but their function remains unknown. Here, we report that a viral HeR from...

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Main Authors: Shoko Hososhima, Ritsu Mizutori, Rei Abe-Yoshizumi, Andrey Rozenberg, Shunta Shigemura, Alina Pushkarev, Masae Konno, Kota Katayama, Keiichi Inoue, Satoshi P Tsunoda, Oded Béjà, Hideki Kandori
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2022-09-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
rhodopsin
patch clamp
E. huxleyi virus
optogenetics
proton channel
structural change
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/78416

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