Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Viral rhodopsins 1 are an unique family of light-gated cation channels

  • Dmitrii Zabelskii,
  • Alexey Alekseev,
  • Kirill Kovalev,
  • Vladan Rankovic,
  • Taras Balandin,
  • Dmytro Soloviov,
  • Dmitry Bratanov,
  • Ekaterina Savelyeva,
  • Elizaveta Podolyak,
  • Dmytro Volkov,
  • Svetlana Vaganova,
  • Roman Astashkin,
  • Igor Chizhov,
  • Natalia Yutin,
  • Maksim Rulev,
  • Alexander Popov,
  • Ana-Sofia Eria-Oliveira,
  • Tatiana Rokitskaya,
  • Thomas Mager,
  • Yuri Antonenko,
  • Riccardo Rosselli,
  • Grigoriy Armeev,
  • Konstantin Shaitan,
  • Michel Vivaudou,
  • Georg Büldt,
  • Andrey Rogachev,
  • Francisco Rodriguez-Valera,
  • Mikhail Kirpichnikov,
  • Tobias Moser,
  • Andreas Offenhäusser,
  • Dieter Willbold,
  • Eugene Koonin,
  • Ernst Bamberg,
  • Valentin Gordeliy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19457-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Nucleocytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses (NCLDV) that infect algae encode two distinct families of microbial rhodopsins. Here, the authors characterise two proteins form the viral rhodopsin group 1 OLPVR1 and VirChR1, present the 1.4 Å crystal structure of OLPVR1 and show that viral rhodopsins 1 are light-gated cation channels.