Dmitrii V. Zabelskii

This paper resolves the mechanism of covalent bond formation in a LOV photoreceptor using time-resolved crystallography and spectroscopy, revealing a water-mediated proton transfer that accelerates the reaction by fourteen orders of magnitude.

This paper demonstrates a method to reduce sample consumption in time-resolved serial crystallography by using segmented droplet generation and mix-and-inject approaches for studying NQO1's redox cycle.

This study uses qPALM to show ChR2 predominantly forms dimers in the cell membrane, with disulfide bonds not essential for dimerization and partial monomerization observed at low concentrations.

The paper shows that viral channelrhodopsins (VCR1s) induce intracellular calcium release upon illumination, enabling light-controlled muscle contraction in tadpoles, suggesting a new optogenetic tool.