Calculation of transition dipole moment in fluorescent proteins--towards efficient energy transfer.

@article{Ansbacher2012CalculationOT,
  title={Calculation of transition dipole moment in fluorescent proteins--towards efficient energy transfer.},
  author={Tamar Ansbacher and Hemant Kumar Srivastava and Tamar Stein and R. Baer and Maarten Merkx and Avital Shurki},
  journal={Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP},
  year={2012},
  volume={14 12},
  pages={
          4109-17
        }
}
Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) between fluorescent proteins (FPs) is widely used to construct fluorescent sensor proteins, to study intracellular protein-protein interactions and to monitor conformational changes in multidomain proteins. Although FRET depends strongly on the orientation of the transition dipole moments (TDMs) of the donor and acceptor fluorophores, this orientation dependence is currently not taken into account in FRET sensor design. Similarly, studies that use FRET… 
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