Single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy of mutants of the Discosoma red fluorescent protein DsRed

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作者：

Blum, C

Subramaniam, V

Schleifenbaum, F

Stracke, F

Angres, B

Terskikh, A

Meixner, AJ

机构：

[1] Univ Siegen, D-57068 Siegen, Germany

[2] Max Planck Inst Biophys Chem, Dept Biol Mol, D-37077 Gottingen, Germany

[3] BD Biosci Clontech, Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA

[4] Stanford Univ, Beckman Ctr, Sch Med, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

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CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS | 2002年 / 362卷 / 5-6期

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10.1016/S0009-2614(02)01014-X

中图分类号：

O64 [物理化学（理论化学）、化学物理学];

学科分类号：

070304 ; 081704 ;

摘要：

We studied the emission of mutants of the red fluorescent protein DsRed by room temperature single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy. Bulk samples of the DsRed variant E8 show mixed green and red fluorescence of equivalent intensities individually spectrally similar to arrested green and mature red fluorescent forms of DsRed. Investigations at the single molecule level indicate that, like DsRed, E8 is not monomeric at single molecule concentrations. The entities visualized are composed of green and red emitting proteins without a fixed ratio of green to red fluorescing units. We find indications for only weak, if any, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between red and green chromophores within one E8 entity. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：355 / 361

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