OCaMP: A New Calcium Indicator for Neural Imaging
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Blog Post
Published
Aug. 19, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
...Figure 1: Excitation (dotted) and emission (solid) spectra for various teal, green, yellow, orange, and ...spanning nearly the entire visible spectrum (Figure 1). The GCaMP series (e.g., jGCaMP8) remains the gold...fluorophores. The spectra for mOrange2 (scaffold of OCaMP) are shaded in orange. Data from FPbase.org.
...complement these tools, we recently developed a new orange calcium indicator, OCaMP (Aggarwal et al., 2025...2025), based on the fluorescent protein mOrange2 (Figure 2).
Figure 2: OCaMP structure and mechanism...CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.
Why orange?
OCaMP’s emission peak at 565 nm fits neatly between...for two-photon imaging with newer lasers in the range of 1000–1080 nm. These industrial fiber lasers are...