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SUBMITTER: Klippenstein V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5441875 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Klippenstein Viktoria V Hoppmann Christian C Ye Shixin S Wang Lei L Paoletti Pierre P
eLife 20170523
Engineering light-sensitivity into proteins has wide ranging applications in molecular studies and neuroscience. Commonly used tethered photoswitchable ligands, however, require solvent-accessible protein labeling, face structural constrains, and are bulky. Here, we designed a set of optocontrollable NMDA receptors by directly incorporating single photoswitchable amino acids (PSAAs) providing genetic encodability, reversibility, and site tolerance. We identified several positions within the mult ...[more]