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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 28.
Published in final edited form as: Chemosensors (Basel). 2017 Nov 28;5(4):32. doi: 10.3390/chemosensors5040032

Table 3.

A List of genetically encoded indicators for synaptic activity.

Indicators Type Sensing Module Reporting Module Dynamic Range Selected Applications Ref.
FLIPE FRET GltI ECFP, Venus <5% Rat hippocampal neurons and PC12 cells [182]
GluSnFR FRET GltI ECFP, Citrine 7.1% Hippocampal neurons [183]
SuperGluSnFR FRET GltI ECFP, Citrine 44% Hippocampal neurons [184]
iGluSnFR Single-FP GltI cpEGFP 450% Cultured neurons; retina, worms, zebrafish and mice [185]
SynaptopHluorin Single-FP pHluorin VAMP2-pHluorin 8–20% Hippocampal neurons; RBL-2H3 cells [168]
sypHy Single-FP pHluorin synaptophysin-pHluorin N.A. Hippocampal neurons [186]
vGpH Single-FP pHluorin vGlut1-pHluorin N.A. Hippocampal boutons [187]
VGLUT1-mOrange2 Single-FP mOrange2 VGLUT1-mOrange2 16% Hippocampal boutons [188]
sypHTomato Single-FP pHTomato Synaptophysin-pHTomato 5–25% CA3-CA1 hippocampal neurons [189]