Time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography reveals early structural changes in channelrhodopsin.
Oda, K., Nomura, T., Nakane, T., Yamashita, K., Inoue, K., Ito, S., Vierock, J., Hirata, K., Maturana, A.D., Katayama, K., Ikuta, T., Ishigami, I., Izume, T., Umeda, R., Eguma, R., Oishi, S., Kasuya, G., Kato, T., Kusakizako, T., Shihoya, W., Shimada, H., Takatsuji, T., Takemoto, M., Taniguchi, R., Tomita, A., Nakamura, R., Fukuda, M., Miyauchi, H., Lee, Y., Nango, E., Tanaka, R., Tanaka, T., Sugahara, M., Kimura, T., Shimamura, T., Fujiwara, T., Yamanaka, Y., Owada, S., Joti, Y., Tono, K., Ishitani, R., Hayashi, S., Kandori, H., Hegemann, P., Iwata, S., Kubo, M., Nishizawa, T., Nureki, O.(2021) Elife 10
- PubMed: 33752801 
- DOI: 10.7554/eLife.62389
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
7C86, 7E6X, 7E6Y, 7E6Z, 7E70, 7E71 - PubMed Abstract: 
Channelrhodopsins (ChRs) are microbial light-gated ion channels utilized in optogenetics to control neural activity with light . Light absorption causes retinal chromophore isomerization and subsequent protein conformational changes visualized as optically distinguished intermediates, coupled with channel opening and closing ...