The Microbial Opsin Family of Optogenetic Tools

Feng Zhang, Johannes Vierock, Ofer Yizhar, +10

Cell

Molecular BiologyMicrobiologyMolecular MicrobiologyMedicineMicrobial Opsin Family +1

Optogenetics for light control of biological systems

Valentina Emiliani, Emilia Entcheva, Rainer Hedrich, +8

Nature Reviews Methods Primers

PhotonicsLight RegulationEngineeringPhotochemistryPhotobiology +7

Crystal structure of the red light-activated channelrhodopsin Chrimson

Kazumasa Oda, Johannes Vierock, Satomi Oishi, +7

Nature Communications

Crystal StructureRetinal Binding PocketPhotoreceptor CellPhotochemistryBiochemistry +10

BiPOLES is an optogenetic tool developed for bidirectional dual-color control of neurons

Johannes Vierock, Silvia Rodriguez-Rozada, Alexander Dieter, +17

Nature Communications

Unifying photocycle model for light adaptation and temporal evolution of cation conductance in channelrhodopsin-2

Jens Kühne, Johannes Vierock, Stefan Alexander Tennigkeit, +7

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

WiChR, a highly potassium-selective channelrhodopsin for low-light one- and two-photon inhibition of excitable cells

Johannes Vierock, Enrico Peter, Christiane Grimm, +13

Science Advances

Time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography reveals early structural changes in channelrhodopsin

Kazumasa Oda, Takashi Nomura, Takanori Nakane, +45

eLife

EngineeringPhotobiologyMolecular BiologyConformational ChangesOptogenetics +15

MerMAIDs: a family of metagenomically discovered marine anion-conducting and intensely desensitizing channelrhodopsins

Johannes Oppermann, P. Fischer, Arita Silapētere, +15

Nature Communications

Molecular determinants of proton selectivity and gating in the red-light activated channelrhodopsin Chrimson

Johannes Vierock, Christiane Grimm, Noam Nitzan, +1

Scientific Reports

Rhodopsin-bestrophin fusion proteins from unicellular algae form gigantic pentameric ion channels

Andrey Rozenberg, Igor Kaczmarczyk, Donna Matzov, +29

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Protein SecretionProtein FunctionBiochemistryNatural SciencesMembrane Transport +3