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I cannot speak for the second color, but the brightest FP ever published 
(Aequorea and relatives, not PE) is V6 from Steven Vogel

http://www.addgene.org/27813/

Article: Structural rearrangement of CaMKIIalpha catalytic domains 
encodes activation. <http://www.addgene.org/browse/article/4004> Thaler 
et al (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Apr 14. 106(15):6369-74. PubMed 
<http://pubmed.org/19339497>)

A Drosophila lab recently published a G6 and a R6, but failed to cite 
Steven so I'll just provide the PubMed number
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24451596

Bulinski and colleagues had several 5xEGFP papers (ex. 1999-2001), including
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11719555
but Venus is brighter. Steven's paper had data for dimerized V6's, 
effectively V12.

See also Bulinski's 1999 US Patent, 5,985,577, though could be argued 
that 2xEGFP is obvious from the first generation Blue-Green and 
Cyan-Yellow FP FRET polypeptides.

I doubt Bulinski's patent would cover 6xUnaG, which will likely be 
almost as bright as V6, but UnaG is 17 kDa vs V 27 kDa (Steven used a 
short linker, so ignoring that), so more photons per amino acid (but you 
never know until someone sues you for patent infringement and wins).
http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(13)00644-2

I have posted suggestions online on localizing FPs to multiplex more, 
dark background, etc
http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/42/
Pat O'Farrell published an implementation, actually two color TALElights, in
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24556431
and more references in the "42" download.


George


On 6/25/2014 10:07 AM, Jens-Bernhard Bosse wrote:
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> Dear List,
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> a colleague of mine wants to do 2 channel imaging on a 2-photon system with a max 1040 nm laser.
> What is the "best" fluorescent protein combination right now in terms of brightness, photostability and maturation time for this application?
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> Thanks so much!
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> Jens
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George McNamara, Ph.D.
Single Cells Analyst
L.J.N. Cooper Lab
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX 77054
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