Green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria and its homologs from
diverse marine animals are widely used as universal genetically encoded fluorescent labels …

1. INTRODUCTION The discovery of Anthozoa homologues of the green fluorescent protein
(GFP) from jellyfish Aequorea victoria, which emit not only green but also yellow, orange …

We used a red chromophore formation pathway, in which the anionic red chromophore is
formed from the neutral blue intermediate, to suggest a rational design strategy to develop …

KillerRed is the only known fluorescent protein that demonstrates notable phototoxicity,
exceeding that of the other green and red fluorescent proteins by at least 1,000-fold …

The structural basis for the photochromism in the fluorescent protein Dronpa is poorly
understood, because the crystal structures of the bright state of the protein did not provide an …

This review focuses on the current view of the interaction between the β-barrel scaffold of
fluorescent proteins and their unique chromophore located in the internal helix. The …

The chromophores of the most widely known fluorescent proteins (FPs) are derivatives of a
core p-hydroxybenzylidene-imidazolinon-5-one (HBI) motif, which usually occurs as a …

The far-red fluorescent protein mKate (λ ex, 588 nm; λ em, 635 nm; chromophore-forming
triad Met 63-Tyr 64-Gly 65), originating from wild-type red fluorescent progenitor eqFP578 …

We determined the 2.2 Å crystal structures of the red fluorescent protein TagRFP and its
derivative, the blue fluorescent protein mTagBFP. The crystallographic analysis is consistent …

Optoacoustic (photoacoustic) imaging has seen marked advances in detection and data
analysis, but there is less progress in understanding the photophysics of common …