Choosing Your Fluorescent Proteins for Multi-Color Imaging
Type
Blog Post
Published
Oct. 9, 2014, 3 p.m.
...#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 ...or one of the improved GFP variants, mRuby2 or TagRFP-T, and an infrared fluorescent protein such as iFP1.4... 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 ...