Yumeka Yamauchi

TL;DR: The 2.4-Å-resolution structure of HeR from an uncultured Thermoplasmatales archaeon SG8-52-1 shows that it adopts a similar fold to that of type I rhodopsin—despite the low sequence identity—but there are also several marked differences that provide insights into heliorhodopin function.

TL;DR: Electrophysiological measurements, flash photolysis experiments, and low-temperature difference FTIR spectroscopy showed that channel closing occurs upon reprotonation of the Schiff base, suggesting that the dynamics of retinal and channels are tightly coupled in GtCCR4.

TL;DR: Successful engineered functional recovery such as visible color and proton‐pump activity suggests that the Rh‐noK protein forms a characteristic structure of microbial rhodopsins.

TL;DR: In this paper , a stepwise backward deletion multiple regression analysis was used to determine the predictors of the TSPO-binding potential (BPND) estimated by positron emission tomography (PET) imaging.

TL;DR: The Cryptomonad Guillardia theta has 42 genes encoding microbial rhodopsin-like proteins in their genomes, and the expression patterns of these genes under various growth conditions were investigated, finding that the expression of 6 genes was induced under N depletion, while that of another 7 genes was reduced underN depletion.