Choosing Your Fluorescent Proteins for Multi-Color Imaging
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...#49004) to the spectra of both mCherry and TagRFP.
Here, the TagRFP spectrum is shown in the darker colors...peak of the TagRFP excitation and the emission filter collects a larger fraction of the TagRFP emission ... emission. For this filter set, we would expect TagRFP to give a brighter signal than mCherry. In general...shorter wavelength red fluorescent proteins like TagRFP or mRuby2 than longer wavelength proteins like ... or one of the improved GFP variants, mRuby2 or TagRFP-T, and an infrared fluorescent protein such as ...