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Looking within for Vision
Neuron 50, 341, April 20, 2006 ª2006 Elsevier Inc.
Erratum Looking within for Vision John G. Flannery1,* and Kenneth P. Greenberg1 1 Vision Science and the Neuroscience Division Department of Molecular and Cell Biology The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California 94720 *Correspondence: [email protected]
(Neuron 50, 1–3; April 6, 2006) The authors wish to correct three errors in the preview relating to the chromophore used by Channelrhodopsin-2. The first sentence should read: ‘‘Channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2), a directly light-gated cation channel from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, has been shown to be a directly light-switched cation-selective ion channel, which employs all-trans retinal as its chromophore (Nagel, 2005).’’ In the fifth paragraph, the second sentence should read: ‘‘The channelopsin-2 (Chop2) protein, originally discovered in green algae, utilizes the light-sensitive chromophore—all-trans retinal—whereas the rod photoreceptor photopigment rhodopsin uses 11-cis retinal.’’ In Figure 1, the retinal chromophore for channelrhodopsin was misdrawn in the diagram. In the dark, the chromophore is all-trans retinal, and light isomerizes this to the 11-cis configuration. The corrected figure is printed here.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.04.003
Erratum Looking within for Vision John G. Flannery1,* and Kenneth P. Greenberg1 1 Vision Science and the Neuroscience Division Department of Molecular and Cell Biology The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California 94720 *Correspondence: [email protected]
(Neuron 50, 1–3; April 6, 2006) The authors wish to correct three errors in the preview relating to the chromophore used by Channelrhodopsin-2. The first sentence should read: ‘‘Channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2), a directly light-gated cation channel from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, has been shown to be a directly light-switched cation-selective ion channel, which employs all-trans retinal as its chromophore (Nagel, 2005).’’ In the fifth paragraph, the second sentence should read: ‘‘The channelopsin-2 (Chop2) protein, originally discovered in green algae, utilizes the light-sensitive chromophore—all-trans retinal—whereas the rod photoreceptor photopigment rhodopsin uses 11-cis retinal.’’ In Figure 1, the retinal chromophore for channelrhodopsin was misdrawn in the diagram. In the dark, the chromophore is all-trans retinal, and light isomerizes this to the 11-cis configuration. The corrected figure is printed here.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.04.003