Concentration of rhodopsin in disk membrane of rod photoreceptor cell

Value >= receptors/μm^2 Range: ≥25,000 receptors/μm^2
Organism vertebrates
Reference Ernst OP, Gramse V, Kolbe M, Hofmann KP, Heck M. Monomeric G protein-coupled receptor rhodopsin in solution activates its G protein transducin at the diffusion limit. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jun 26 104(26):10859-64. fig 5PubMed ID17578920
Primary Source Liebman PA, Parker KR, Dratz EA. The molecular mechanism of visual excitation and its relation to the structure and composition of the rod outer segment. Annu Rev Physiol. 1987 49:765-91.PubMed ID3032081
Entered by Uri M
ID 103610