Green fluorescent protein TurboGFP

- Bright green fluorescence
- Fast maturation at a wide range of temperatures
- High pH-stability and photostability
- Proven suitability to generate stably transfected cell lines
- Destabilized variant is available
- Recommended for gene expression analysis and cell and organelle labeling

Main properties

TurboGFP normalized excitation (thin line) and emission (thick line) spectra. Spectra viewer tool Download TurboGFP spectra (xls)

CHARACTERISTIC * Brightness is a product of extinction coefficient and quantum yield, divided by 1000. Molecular weight, kDa 26 Polypeptide length, aa 232 Fluorescence color green Excitation maximum, nm 482 Emission maximum, nm 502 Quantum yield 0.53 Extinction coefficient, M-1cm-1 70 000 Brightness* 37.1 Brightness, % of EGFP 112 pKa 5.2 Structure dimer Aggregation no Maturation rate at 37°C super fast Photostability high Cell toxicity not observed Main advantages superbright and fast-maturing green fluorescent protein Possible limitations dimer, limited applicability for fusions generation