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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Photoexcitation of the P4480 State Induces a Secondary Photocycle That Potentially Desensitizes Channelrhodopsin-2

Tom ReslerVíctor A. Lórenz-fonfríaRamona SchlesingerFranziska Pranga-sellnauMattia SaitaJoachim Heberle

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0301 basic medicine010405 organic chemistryChemistryChannelrhodopsinGeneral Chemistry01 natural sciencesBiochemistryCatalysis0104 chemical sciencesPhotoexcitation03 medical and health sciences030104 developmental biologyColloid and Surface ChemistryBiophysics

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Channelrhodopsins (ChRs) are light-gated cation channels. In spite of their wide use to activate neurons with light, the photocurrents of ChRs rapidly decay in intensity under both continuous illum...

https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b03931