A part of the molecular mechanism for the light-gated anion channelrhodopsin has been revealed. (Assistant Prof. Takashi Tsukamoto, Lab. of Biological Information Analysis Science)
We revealed a part of the molecular mechanism for a light-gated anion channelrhodopsin from a marine alga Proteomonas sulcata. See here (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-31742-6) for the details.