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channelrhodopsin

noun

Etymology

From channel + rhodopsin.

Definitions

  1. An opsin protein that controls phototaxis in unicellular green algae.

    • The channelrhodopsin switch is “really going to blow the lid off the whole analysis of brain function,” said George Augustine, a neurobiologist at Duke University in Durham, N.C.
    • The key is a light-activated protein called channelrhodopsin, the DNA-encoded gene for producing which can be delivered across species into brain cells.

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