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Protein (state) | t1/2 (s) | Power | Light | Mode | In Cell | Fusion | ˚C |
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mAmetrine | 2.8 |
During the development of the violet-excitable blue-fluorescing A. victoria GFP variant mKalama1, we fortuitously discovered a long-Stokes-shift violet-excitable yellow-fluorescing variant. We subjected this new fluorescent protein to aggressive directed protein evolution and eventually produced a brightly fluorescent variant with 20 mutations relative to GFP. The final variant, designated as mAmetrine, retained the property of violet excitation owing to a protonated ground state, and yellow emission resulting from excited state proton transfer and π-π stacking interactions with the chromophore.