Channelrhodopsins

Channelrhodopsin-1: a light-gated proton channel in green algae

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Expression in frog oocytes established channelrhodopsin-1 as a directly light-gated proton channel.

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Georg Nagel, Doris Ollig, Markus Fuhrmann, Suneel Kateriya, Anna Maria Mustiorcid, Ernst Bamberg, Peter Hegemann