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SUBMITTER: Miesenbock G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3759011 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Annual review of cell and developmental biology 20110801
The absorption of light by bound or diffusible chromophores causes conformational rearrangements in natural and artificial photoreceptor proteins. These rearrangements are coupled to the opening or closing of ion transport pathways, the association or dissociation of binding partners, the enhancement or suppression of catalytic activity, or the transcription or repression of genetic information. Illumination of cells, tissues, or organisms engineered genetically to express photoreceptor proteins ...[more]