Functional Diversity and Optogenetic Potentials of Microbial Rhodopsins
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Microbial or type-1 rhodopsins are light sensitive proteins that utilize all-trans retinal as chromophore. Microbial rhodopsins are present in archaea, eubacteria and eukaryotes. Their broad and patchy distribution among the three domains of life is attributed to the lateral gene transfer mechanism of evolution. Microbial rhodopsins function as sensory rhodopsins, light-gated ion pumps and light-activated ion channels in nature. In this review, we present functional diversity and optogenetics applications of microbial rhodopsins.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012