Application of fluorescence lifetime imaging of enhanced green fluorescent protein to intracellular pH measurements

作者:Nakabayashi, Takakazu; Wang, Hui-Ping; Kinjo, Masataka; Ohta, Nobuhiro*
来源:Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, 2008, 7(6): 668-670.
DOI:10.1039/b800391b

摘要

We have shown that the intracellular pH of a single HeLa cell expressing the enhanced green fluorescent protein ( EGFP) can be imaged using the fluorescence lifetime of EGFP, which can be interpreted in terms of the pH-dependent ionic equilibrium of the p-hydroxybenzylidene- imidazolidinone structure of the chromophore of EGFP.