Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferases
Type
Blog Post
...molecule is excited by a high-energy photon and re-emits a lower-energy photon; no chemical reaction takes...) worlds
Forster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) is the transfer of energy from an excited donor fluorophore...Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer (BRET) works the same way, except that energy is transferred from ...Fluorescence
Source of light
Chemical reaction
High-energy photons
Kinetics of photon generation
Slower
...interaction brings the fluorescent protein close enough, energy is transferred by BRET and the fluorescent protein...