Our latest themed issue on Photofunctional proteins: from understanding to engineering, is now online. The issue was guest edited by Professors Aba Losi, Cristiano Viappiani and Santi Nonell.
It contains various topics such as optogenetics where light-gated proteins originally designed by nature, also known as photoreceptors,are exploited as tools to elegantly photomodulate cell activities. Other topics cover fluorescent proteins and its applications in genetic engineering. Fluorescent proteins have revolutionized the field of molecular biology and in fact this was recognized with the 2008 Nobel Prize awarded to the pioneers in the field Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien.
We hope that you will find this themed issue on photofunctional proteins an enjoyable read.
