Fig.1a). Since this residue is conserved in different microbial rhodopsins and is known to be important for proton transfer, we kept theFcR1 (R118H) mutant for analysis of its photocurrents. Interestingly, the R118H mutant behaves
. J.S. was additionally supported by a fellowship from the EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdoc (EIPOD) programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions COFUND programme (grant number 664726), GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Grant 3788) to ...