Measurements of rhodopsin diffusion within signaling membrane microcompartments in live photoreceptors

Methods Mol Biol. 2015:1271:309-23. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2330-4_20.

Abstract

High-resolution multiphoton imaging of live cells has become an invaluable method to study protein dynamics in highly compartmentalized subcellular environments. Here we describe procedures that we recently developed to quantify rhodopsin mobility within and between retinal rod photoreceptor light signaling microcompartments, the disc membrane lobules, using multiphoton fluorescence relaxation after photoconversion.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Photoreceptor Cells / metabolism*
  • Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled / chemistry
  • Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled / metabolism
  • Rhodopsin / chemistry*
  • Rhodopsin / metabolism*
  • Signal Transduction / physiology

Substances

  • Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled
  • Rhodopsin