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ArticleBiophysical journal2020

Modulation of Light Energy Transfer from Chromophore to Protein in the Channelrhodopsin ReaChR.

Joel C D Kaufmann, Benjamin S Krause, Suliman Adam, Eglof Ritter, Igor Schapiro, Peter Hegemann, Franz J Bartl

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Structural Insights Into the Opening Mechanism of C1C2 Channelrhodopsin.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025
    Article
  3. Time-resolved photoacoustics of channelrhodopsins: early energetics and light-driven volume changes.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2023
    Article
  4. Evolution of the Automatic Rhodopsin Modeling (ARM) Protocol.Topics in current chemistry (Cham) · 2022
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Joel C D KaufmannInstitut für Biologie, Biophysikalische Chemie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Institut für Medizinische Physik und Biophysik, Charité Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Benjamin S KrauseInstitut für Biologie, Experimentelle Biophysik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Suliman AdamFritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics Research at the Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Eglof RitterInstitut für Biologie, Biophysikalische Chemie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Institut für Biologie, Experimentelle Biophysik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Igor SchapiroFritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics Research at the Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Peter HegemannInstitut für Biologie, Experimentelle Biophysik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Franz J BartlInstitut für Biologie, Biophysikalische Chemie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: franz.bartl@hu-berlin.de.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · DEHebrew University of Jerusalem · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The function of photoreceptors relies on efficient transfer of absorbed light energy from the chromophore to the protein to drive conformational changes that ultimately generate an output signal. In retinal-binding proteins, mainly two mechanisms exist to store the photon energy after photoisomerization: 1) conformational distortion of the prosthetic group retinal, and 2) charge separation between the protonated retinal Schiff base (RSBH

Indexed as

Molecular Dynamics SimulationSchiff BasesChannelrhodopsinsEnergy TransferHydrogen BondingChannelrhodopsinsSchiff Bases

Identifiers

PMID32697975
PMCPMC7399494
OpenAlexW3041423887

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