BiophysicsAngewandte ChemiePeer-reviewed
Revealing the Oligomerization of Channelrhodopsin-2 in the Cell Membrane using Photo-Activated Localization Microscopy
Ekaterina Bestsennaia, Ivan Maslov, Taras G. Balandin…·Valentin I. Borshchevskiy
This study uses qPALM to show ChR2 predominantly forms dimers in the cell membrane, with disulfide bonds not essential for dimerization and partial monomerization observed at low concentrations.