Chapter 3 Challenges and opportunities for optochemical genetics

• Autor principal: Isacoff, Ehud Y. (auth)
• Outros Autores: Kramer, Richard H. (auth), Trauner, Dirk (auth), Hegemann, Peter (Editor), Sigrist, Stephan (Editor)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2013
• Assuntos: Biophysics; Genetics (non-medical); Neurosciences; Human biology; Genetic Engineering; Neuroscience; Optics; Vision Restoration
• Acesso em linha: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

The transmembrane proteins that underlie neural processing are now known at a level of detail that has greatly increased our understanding of these sophisticated molecular machines. Starting with MacKinnon's seminal structure of a potassium channel, several voltage-gated ion channels and ionotr...