Kota Katayama — Case Western Reserve University

Area of research

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience · Molecular Biology

Research interest

Research interests include Channelrhodopsin, Optogenetics, Biology, Rhodopsin, Chromophore, and Femtosecond.

Recent publications

Structural insights into light harvesting by antenna-containing rhodopsins in marine Asgard archaea

Nature Microbiology 2025cited by 8position: middledoi

Structural basis for ion selectivity in potassium-selective channelrhodopsins

Cell 2023cited by 52position: middledoi

Phototrophy by antenna-containing rhodopsin pumps in aquatic environments

Nature 2023cited by 44position: middledoi

Rhodopsin-bestrophin fusion proteins from unicellular algae form gigantic pentameric ion channels

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 2022cited by 46position: middledoi

Time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography reveals early structural changes in channelrhodopsin

eLife 2021cited by 75position: middledoi

Color Vision: “OH-Site” Rule for Seeing Red and Green

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2012cited by 59position: middledoi

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