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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 12.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Rev. 2010 May 12;110(5):2756–2782. doi: 10.1021/cr900266s

Table 3.

Optical properties of fluorescence proteins.131 FPs, fluorescence proteins; EX, excitation wavelength; EM, emission wavelength; FQY, fluorescence quantum yield; and NR-QY, nonradiative quantum yield (1 – FQY).

FPs EX
[nm]		 EM
[nm]		 Molar extinction coefficient
[cm−1M−1]		 FQY
[%]		 Molar extinction coefficient ×
NR-QY [cm−1M−1]
mCherry 587 610 0.72 × 105 22 0.56 × 105
tdTomato 554 581 1.38 × 105 69 0.42 × 105
mStraberry 574 596 0.9 × 105 29 0.64 × 105
J-Red 584 610 0.44 × 105 20 0.35 × 105
DsRed-Monomer 556 586 0.35 × 105 10 0.32 × 105
EGFP 488 507 0.56 × 105 60 0.22 × 105