Synthetic retinal analogues modify the spectral and kinetic characteristics of microbial rhodopsin optogenetic tools
2014
Efforts to improve the performance of optogenetic tools for neuroscience research have mostly been focused on mutating the opsin backbones or mining-related algal genomes. Here the authors show that analogues of the chromophore, retinal, can be used for colour tuning of rhodopsins and altering their photocycle kinetics in several model organisms.
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