Talk:Light-gated ion channel

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Mechanism lacking citing
I am planning on expanding this page because of it's inadequate description of this general class of ion channels. The prime example of this channel, channelrhodopsin, is significantly more detailed. It is difficult to describe this a category if only one natural example is known, but synthetic versions allow for further description than currently exhibited. Nevaldiaa (talk) 15:12, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

From a user perspective, it makes a huge difference whether the system is fully genetic (e.g. ChR2) or a chromophore has to be added in form of a chemical (e.g. MAG). This difference is somehow (intentionally?) muddied in the article, which is not helpful for a reader who tries to understand how these channels work. Millencolin (talk) 07:18, 5 October 2018 (UTC)