Table 2.

Metarhodopsin II decay rates as measured by retinal release^*

Rhodopsin mutants	t1/2 Meta II decay, min
WT	16
W265F	3.9
W265Y	4.4
W265A	1.9
A164V†	2.1

^*As in Materials and Methods. 

^†This sample was in 0.05% DM.