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Crystal structure of the channelrhodopsin light-gated cation channel

2012542 citationsJournal Articlegreen Open Access

Authors

Hideaki Kato · The University of Tokyo

Feng Zhang · Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Ofer Yizhar · Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Charu Ramakrishnan · Stanford University

Tomohiro Nishizawa · The University of Tokyo

Kunio Hirata · SPring-8

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Publication Details

Published in: Nature

Volume 482, Issue 7385, pp. 369-374

DOI: 10.1038/nature10870

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 22.07

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Nagaoka University of Technology

Yusuke Aita · Nagaoka University of Technology

Tomoya Tsukazaki · The University of Tokyo

Shigehiko Hayashi · Kyoto University

Peter Hegemann · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Andrés D. Maturana · Nagaoka University of Technology

Ryuichiro Ishitani · The University of Tokyo

Karl Deisseroth · Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Osamu Nureki · The University of Tokyo