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RHODOPSIN, the visual pigment of the retinal rods, is a doubly conjugated protein constituting about 80% of the total protein of the rod disk membrane in the frog1. The two prosthetic groups of rhodopsin are the visual chromophore retinal, and a single oligosaccharide chain comprising six sugar residues2,3
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ROMHÁNYI, G., MOLNAR, L. Optical polarisation indicates linear arrangement of rhodopsin oligosaccharide chain in rod disk membranes of frog retina. Nature 249, 486–488 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/249486a0
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