Optogenetics and Photopharmacology

Light-controlled proteins and small-molecule switches for biological control.

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Optogenetics and Photopharmacology — Light-controlled proteins and small-molecule switches for biological control. This page is a placeholder while frontier-paper sourcing is deferred to a follow-up OpenAlex wave.

The topic sits in the Charted science tree as a child of chemistry/biochemistry/chemical-biology and will be expanded once curated primary sources have been gathered. A foundational reference for this area is Biochemistry (Voet and Voet, 2016).

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Sources

  • textbook · primary · 2016
    Biochemistry
    voet-2016, voet-judith-2016

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