Researchers solve structure of 'inverted' rhodopsin
Friday, April 3, 2020 - 06:50
in Biology & Nature
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, working with Spanish, French and German colleagues, have determined and analyzed the high-resolution structure of a protein from the recently discovered heliorhodopsin family. Microbial rhodopsins play a key role in optogenetics—a technique that uses light to control nerve and muscle cells in living tissue. The findings were published in PNAS.