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LUMINESCENCE
Volume 28, Issue 4, Pages 582-591Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/bio.2497
Keywords
sea cactus; GFP; dual-color emission; pH indicator; fluorescence microscopy
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We isolated and characterized a green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the sea cactus Cavernularia obesa. This GFP exists as a dimer and has absorption maxima at 388 and 498nm. Excitation at 388nm leads to blue fluorescence (456nm maximum) at pH 5 and below, and green fluorescence (507nm maximum) at pH 7 and above, and the GFP is remarkably stable at pH 4. Excitation at 498nm leads to green fluorescence (507nm maximum) from pH 5 to pH 9. We introduced five amino acid substitutions so that this GFP formed monomers rather than dimers and then used this monomeric form to visualize intracellular pH change during the phagocytosis of living cells by use of fluorescence microscopy. The intracellular pH change is visualized by use of a simple long-pass emission filter with single-wavelength excitation, which is technically easier to use than dual-emission fluorescent proteins that require dual-wavelength excitation. Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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