“…The model was generated using the MODELLER (version 9.20) program ( https://salilab.org ) 54 . Multiple retinal proteins have served as a basis for the model generation: Haloquadratum walsbyi bacteriorhodopsin ( Hw BR, PDB ID: 4QI1) 55 , Halobacterium salinarum bacteriorhodopsin ( Hs BR, PDB ID: 5ZIM) 56 , Archærhodopsin-3 (AR3, PDB ID: 6GUX), Sensory Rhodopsin II (SRII, PDB ID: 5JJE) 57 , Acetabularia Rhodopsin I (ARI, PDB ID: 5AX0) 58 , Archærhodopsin-2 (AR2, PDB ID: 3WQJ) 59 , Blue-light-absorbing proteorhodopsin (BPR, PDB ID: 4JQ6) 60 , Exiguobacterium sibiricum rhodopsin (ESR, PDB ID: 4HYJ) 60 , Channelrhodopsin Chrimson, PDB ID: 5ZIH) 31 , Chlamydomonas reinhardtii channelrhodopsin-2 ( Cr ChR2, PDB ID: 6EID) 61 , Channelrhodopsin-1/−2 chimæra (C1C2, PDB ID: 3UG9) 62 , Krokinobacter eikastus rhodopsin-2 (KR2, PDB ID: 6RF6) 63 , Gloeobacter rhodopsin (GR, PDB ID: 6NWD) 64 and Coccomyxa subellipsoidea rhodopsin (CsR, PDB ID: 6GYH) 65 . Their sequences were aligned with ClustalO 66 .…”