. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 12.

Published in final edited form as: Chem Rev. 2010 May 12;110(5):2579–2619. doi: 10.1021/cr900301e

Table 7.

Spectroscopic Properties of Selected Fluorescent Proteins^a

#	Name	λ_max (ε)	λ_em	Φ
5.1	GFP Wild type	396 (27.5)	504	0.79
5.2	EGFP	489 (55)	510	0.64
5.3	YFP, Topaz	514 (94.5)	527	0.6
5.4	P4-3	382 (22.3)	446	0.3
5.5	ECFP	452	505	-
5.6	GdFP	466 (23.4)	574	-

λ, ε, and τ are in nm, 10³ M⁻¹ cm⁻¹ and ns respectively. Data from Tsien⁴³ and Budisa et al.³⁰⁰ and are averaged if a range is given.