P. Fischer

Cell-free expression with a quartz crystal microbalance enables rapid, dynamic, and label-free characterization of membrane-interacting proteins

The paper introduces TXTL-QCMD, a method to dynamically characterize membrane-interacting proteins without purification or labeling, revealing insights into IIMP-membrane interactions.

MerMAIDs: A novel family of metagenomically discovered, marine, anion-conducting and intensely desensitizing channelrhodopsins.

The paper identifies a new family of marine anion-conducting channelrhodopsins (MerMAIDs) that rapidly desensitize under continuous light, enabling their use as optogenetic silencers.