Researchers solve structure of `inverted` rhodopsin
(PHYSorg.com Biology)

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, working with Spanish, French and German colleagues, have determined and analyzed the high-resolution structure of a protein from the recently discovered heliorhodopsin family. Microbial rhodopsins play a key role in optogenetics-a technique that uses light to control nerve and muscle cells in living tissue. The findings were published in PNAS.