Publications of Christian Bamann

Bamann, C.; Bamberg, E.; Wachtveitl, J.; Glaubitz, C.: Proteorhodopsin. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, Bioenergetics 1837 (5), pp. 614 - 625 (2014)

Sattig, T.; Rickert, C.; Bamberg, E.; Steinhoff, H.-J.; Bamann, C.: Light-Induced Movement of the Transmembrane Helix B in Channelrhodopsin-2. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in English 52 (37), pp. 9705 - 9708 (2013)

Neumann-Verhoefen, M.-K.; Neumann, K.; Bamann, C.; Radu, I.; Heberle, J.; Bamberg, E.; Wachtveitl, J.: Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy on Channelrhodopsin‑2 Reveals Efficient Energy Transfer from the Retinal Chromophore to the Protein. Journal of the American Chemical Society 135 (18), pp. 6968 - 6976 (2013)

Janke, C.; Scholz, F.; Becker-Baldus, J.; Glaubitz, C.; Wood, P. G.; Bamberg, E.; Wachtveitl, J.; Bamann, C.: Photocycle and Vectorial Proton Transfer in a Rhodopsin from the Eukaryote Oxyrrhis marina. Biochemistry 52 (16), pp. 2750 - 2763 (2013)

Lórenz-Fonfría, V. A.; Resler, T.; Krause, N.; Nack, M.; Gossing, M.; Fischer von Mollard, G.; Bamann, C.; Bamberg, E.; Schlesinger, R.; Heberle, J.: Transient protonation changes in channelrhodopsin-2 and their relevance to channel gating. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110 (14), pp. E1273 - E1281 (2013)

Herz, J.; Verhoefen, M.-K.; Weber, I.; Bamann, C.; Glaubitz, C.; Wachtveitl, J.: Critical Role of Asp227 in the Photocycle of Proteorhodopsin. Biochemistry 51 (28), pp. 5589 - 5560 (2012)

Scholz, F.; Bamberg, E.; Bamann, C.; Wachtveitl, J.: Tuning the Primary Reaction of Channelrhodopsin-2 by Imidazole, pH, and Site-Specific Mutations. Biophysical Journal (Annual Meeting Abstracts) 102 (11), pp. 2649 - 2657 (2012)

Nack, M.; Radu, I.; Schultz, B.-J.; Resler, T.; Schlesinger, R.; Bondar, A.-N.; del Val, C.; Abbruzzetti, S.; Viappiani, C.; Bamann, C. et al.; Bamberg, E.; Heberle, J.: Kinetics of proton release and uptake by channelrhodopsin-2. FEBS Letters 586 (9), pp. 1344 - 1348 (2012)

Kleinlogel, S.; Terpitz, U.; Legrum, B.; Gökbuget, D.; Boyden, E. S.; Bamann, C.; Wood, P. G.; Bamberg, E.: A gene-fusion strategy for stoichiometric and co-localized expression of light-gated membrane proteins. Nature Methods 8 (12), pp. 1083 - 1088 (2011)

Müller, M.; Bamann, C.; Bamberg, E.; Kühlbrandt, W.: Projection Structure of Channelrhodopsin-2 at 6 Å Resolution by Electron Crystallography. Journal of Molecular Biology 414 (1), pp. 86 - 95 (2011)

Ruffert, K.; Himmel, B.; Lall, D.; Bamann, C.; Bamberg, E.; Betz, H.; Eulenburg, V.: Glutamate residue 90 in the predicted transmembrane domain 2 is crucial for cation flux through channelrhodopsin 2. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 410 (4), pp. 737 - 743 (2011)

Kleinlogel, S.; Feldbauer, K.; Dempski, R. E.; Fotis, H.; Wood, P. G.; Bamann, C.; Bamberg, E.: Ultra light-sensitive and fast neuronal activation with the Ca²⁺-permeable channelrhodopsin CatCh. Nature Neuroscience 14 (4), pp. 513 - 518 (2011)

Verhoefen, M.-K.; Bamann, C.; Blöcher, R.; Förster, U.; Bamberg, E.; Wachtveitl, J.: The Photocycle of Channelrhodopsin-2: Ultrafast Reaction Dynamics and Subsequent Reaction Steps. ChemPhysChem 11 (14), pp. 3113 - 3122 (2010)

Bamann, C.; Nagel, G.; Bamberg, E.: Microbial rhodopsins in the spotlight. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 20 (5), pp. 610 - 616 (2010)

Hoffmann, J.; Aslimovska, L.; Bamann, C.; Glaubitz, C.; Bamberg, E.; Brutschy, B.: Studying the stoichiometries of membrane proteins by mass spectrometry: microbial rhodopsins and a potassium ion channel. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 12 (14), pp. 3480 - 3485 (2010)

Nack, M.; Radu, I.; Gossing, M.; Bamann, C.; Bamberg, E.; Fischer von Mollard, G.; Heberle, J.: The DC gate in Channelrhodopsin-2: crucial hydrogen bonding interaction between C128 and D156. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 9 (2), pp. 194 - 198 (2010)

Bamann, C.; Gueta, R.; Kleinlogel, S.; Nagel, G.; Bamberg, E.: Structural Guidance of the Photocycle of Channelrhodopsin-2 by an Interhelical Hydrogen Bond. Biochemistry 49 (2), pp. 267 - 278 (2010)

Nack, M.; Radu, I.; Bamann, C.; Bamberg, E.; Heberle, J.: The retinal structure of channelrhodopsin-2 assessed by resonance Raman spectroscopy. FEBS Letters 583 (22), pp. 3676 - 3680 (2009)

Feldbauer, K.; Zimmermann, D.; Pintschovius, V.; Spitz, J.; Bamann, C.; Bamberg, E.: Channelrhodopsin-2 is a leaky proton pump. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106 (30), pp. 12317 - 12322 (2009)

Radu, I.; Bamann, C.; Nack, M.; Nagel, G.; Bamberg, E.; Heberle, J.: Conformational Changes of Channelrhodopsin-2. Journal of the American Chemical Society 131 (21), pp. 7313 - 7319 (2009)