Table 1.
In vitro characterization of pH-sensitive FPs
Protein | pKa | nH | Fluorescence fold change (pH 5.5–7.5) | Excitation peak at pH 7.2 | Emission peak at pH 7.2 |
nm | nm | ||||
SE-pHluorin | 7.2 | 1.90 | 50 | 495 | 512 |
mNectarine | 6.9 | 0.78a | 6 | 558 | 578 |
pHTomato | 7.8 | 0.51a | 3 | 562 | 578 |
mOrange | 6.5 | 0.77 | 5 | 548 | 562 |
pHoran1 | 6.7 | 0.87 | 10 | 547 | 564 |
pHoran2 | 7.0 | 0.89 | 12 | 549 | 563 |
pHoran3 | 7.4 | 0.87 | 15 | 551 | 566 |
pHoran4 | 7.5 | 0.92 | 17 | 547 | 561 |
mCherry-TYG | 7.8 | 0.73a | 5 | 546 | 568 |
mApple | 6.6 | 0.68 | 4 | 568 | 592 |
A-9 | 7.4 | 0.73 | 12 | 576 | 596 |
A-17 | 7.2 | 0.87 | 11 | 576 | 596 |
A-47 | 7.1 | 0.83 | 10 | 570 | 592 |
pHuji | 7.7 | 1.10 | 22 | 566 | 598 |
Biphasic titration curve. To obtain the apparent nH, the whole titration curve was fit with a monophasic function.