Prof. Dr. Ernst Bamberg

Emeritus scientific member

Biophysical Chemistry
+49 69 6303 2000
+49 69 6303-2002

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Selected Publications

1. Bamberg, E., Tittor, J., & Oesterhelt, D.: Light-driven proton or chloride pumping by halorhodopsin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 90(2), 639-643. (1993). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.90.2.639
    
2. Nagel, G., Möckel, B., Büldt, G., & Bamberg, E.: Functional expression of bacteriorhodopsin in oocytes allows direct measurement of voltage dependence of light induced H+ pumping. Febs Letters, 377(2), 263-266. (1995). https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(95)01356-3
    
3. Nagel, G., Ollig, D., Fuhrmann, M., Kateriya, S., Mustl, A. M., Bamberg, E., & Hegemann, P.: Channelrhodopsin-1: A light-gated proton channel in green algae. Science, 296(5577), 2395-2398. (2002). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1072068
    
4. Nagel, G., Szellas, T., Huhn, W., Kateriya, S., Adeishvili, N., Berthold, P., Ollig, D., Hegemann, P., & Bamberg, E.: Channelrhodopsin-2, a directly light-gated cation-selective membrane channel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 100(24), 13940-13945. (2003). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1936192100
    
5. Boyden, E. S., Zhang, F., Bamberg, E., Nagel, G., & Deisseroth, K.: Millisecond-timescale, genetically targeted optical control of neural activity. Nature Neuroscience, 8(9), 1263-1268. (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1525
    
6. Nagel, G., Brauner, M., Liewald, J. F., Adeishvili, N., Bamberg, E., & Gottschalk, A.: Light-activation of channelrhodopsin-2 in excitable cells of Caenorhabditis elegans triggers rapid Behavioral responses. Current Biology, 15(24), 2279-2284. (2005). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2005.11.032
    
7. Zhang, F., Wang, L. P., Brauner, M., Liewald, J. F., Kay, K., Watzke, N., Wood, P. G., Bamberg, E., Nagel, G., Gottschalk, A., & Deisseroth, K.: Multimodal fast optical interrogation of neural circuitry. Nature, 446(7136), 633-U634. (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05744
    
8. 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), 12317-12322. (2009). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0905852106
    
9. Shevchenko, V., Mager, T., Kovalev, K., Polovinkin, V., Alekseev, A., Juettner, J., Chizhov, I., Bamann, C., Vavourakis, C., Ghai, R., Gushchin, I., Borshchevskiy, V., Rogachev, A., Melnikov, I., Popov, A., Balandin, T., Rodriguez-Valera, F., Manstein, D. J., Bueldt, G., Bamberg, E., & Gordeliy, V.: Inward H+ pump xenorhodopsin: Mechanism and alternative optogenetic approach. Science Advances, 3(9), 10. (2017). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1603187
    
10. Volkov, O., Kovalev, K., Polovinkin, V., Borshchevskiy, V., Bamann, C., Astashkin, R., Marin, E., Popov, A., Balandin, T., Willbold, D., Büldt, G., Bamberg, E., & Gordeliy, V.: Structural insights into ion conduction by channelrhodopsin 2. Science, 358(6366), 8. (2017). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan8862
     
11. Mager, T., de la Morena, D. L., Senn, V., Schlotte, J., D’Errico, A., Feldbauer, K., Wrobel, C., Jung, S., Bodensiek, K., Rankovic, V., Browne, L., Huet, A., Jüttner, J., Wood, P. G., Letzkus, J. J., Moser, T., & Bamberg, E.: High frequency neural spiking and auditory signaling by ultrafast red-shifted optogenetics. Nature Communications, 9, 14. (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04146-3