Table 1.

List of commonly used FRET pairs for study of protein–lipid interaction

Donor fluorophore	Acceptor fluorophore	Förster radius (Å)
Trpa	Pyrene	21–27
Trpb	Laurdan	29
Trpc	cis/trans-Parinaric acid	18l
Trpd	Cholestatrienol	20m
Trpe	Dansyl	24
Trpf	Dehydroergosterol	16
Pyreneg	Rhodopsin retinal group	34–35
BODIPYh	Texas-Red	–
DCIAi	NBD	39
AEDANSj	NBD	30–29n
GFPk	BODIPY	50 (for EGFP)o

BODIPY 4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene, DCIA 7-diethylamino-3-((4′-(iodoacetyl)amino)phenyl)-4-methylcoumarin, NBD 7-nitro-2-1,3-benzoxadiazol-4-yl, AEDANS 5-((2-aminoethyl)amino)naphthalene-1-sulfonic acid, GFP green fluorescent protein, EGFP enhanced green fluorescent protein

^aPap et al. (1993), Bonini et al. (2002), Levi et al. (2000)

^bAntollini et al. (1996), Antollini and Barrantes (1998, 2002), Levi et al. (2003)

^cNarayanaswami and McNamee (1993), Poveda et al. (2002)

^dAlbert et al. (1996)

^eWang et al. (1988)

^fRaghuraman and Chattopadhyay (2004)

^gPolozova and Litman (2000)

^hGambhir et al. (2004), Nomikos et al. (2007)

ⁱFernandes et al. (2004)

^jFernandes et al. (2008)

^kHughes et al. (2002)

^lNemecz et al. (1991)

^mHolt et al. (2008)

ⁿFairclough and Cantor (1978)

^oIlien et al. (2003)