DsRed

DsRed是一種在Discosoma 屬珊瑚中發現的紅色螢光蛋白^[1]，與維多利亞多管發光水母中發現的綠色螢光蛋白（GFP）是同源物，能發出紅色螢光（激發峰558nm，發射峰583nm）^[2]，改造後的變體有mCherry、mPlum、dTomato、tdTomato等^[3]。

參考文獻

^ Ranganathan, Rama; Wall, Mark A.; Socolich, Michael. The structural basis for red fluorescence in the tetrameric GFP homolog DsRed. Nature Structural Biology. 2000-12-01, 7 (12): 1133–1138. doi:10.1038/81992.
^ Campbell, RE; Tour, O; Palmer, AE; Steinbach, PA; Baird, GS; Zacharias, DA; Tsien, RY. A monomeric red fluorescent protein.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2002-06-11, 99 (12): 7877–82. PMID 12060735. doi:10.1073/pnas.082243699.
^ Breyfogle, KL; Blood, DL; Rosnik, AM; Krueger, BP. Molecular Dynamics Force Field Parameters for the EGFP Chromophore and Some of Its Analogues.. The journal of physical chemistry. B. 2023-07-06, 127 (26): 5772–5788. PMID 37357785. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c01486.