Nature Methods

A naturally monomeric infrared fluorescent protein for protein labeling in vivo

Dan Yu, Michelle A Baird, John R Allen, Elizabeth S Howe, Matthew P Klassen, Anna Reade, Kalpana Makhijani, Yuanquan Song, Songmei Liu, Zehra Murthy, Shao-Qing Zhang, Orion D Weiner, Thomas B Kornberg, Yuh-Nung Jan, Michael W Davidson, Xiaokun Shu.
An infrared fluorescent protein based on a new monomeric scaffold is described in this paper and is tested for protein fusion in cells and in vivo.