protein.summary: Summary information of selected fluorescent proteins.

Description Usage Format

Description

Information was largely taken from the data provided by Talley Lambert and Kurt Thorn under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license (nic.ucsf.edu/FPvisualization/). Less detailed information was added from Addgene's Fluorescent Protein Guide (https://www.addgene.org/fluorescent-proteins/plasmid-backbones/). Small changes were made to protein names for consistency.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 95 rows and 14 variables summarizing common fluorescent protein properties. See nic.ucsf.edu/FPvisualization/ for more information.

protein

Name of protein

peak_excitation

Wavelength (nm) of peak excitation

peak_emission

Wavelength (nm) of peak emission

stokes

Stokes shift (difference between emission and excitation)

extinction

Extinction coefficient

qy

Quantum yield

brightness

Normalized product of extinction coefficient and quantum yield

agg

Aggregation state of protein

pka

pKa of protein

bleach

Bleaching time in seconds

mature

Maturation time in minutes

lifetime

Fluorescence lifetime in nanoseconds

doi

Literature reference

addgene

TRUE if availabel through addgene


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