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Optogenetics: Light regulates an enzyme – EurekAlert
New tool for cell biology: Würzburg researchers have developed a light sensor with an enzyme function that can be switched on and off with different light colours….
IMAGE: Violet light triggers a signalling chain in the light sensor protein switch-Cyclop, blue or green light stops the chain. At the end, the production of the signalling molecule cGMP is…
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Credit: (Picture: Shiqiang Gao / University of Wuerzburg)
The unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has already given research a massive boost: One of its light sensors, channelrhodopsin-2, founded the success of optogenetics about 20 years ago.
In this technology, the alga’s light sensor…
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