The assays were carried out as described previously (31 (link)). Culture samples were diluted 1:1000 in 1 ml of PBS. Fluorescence intensity of mNeonGreen and mCherry in cells was monitored by flow cytometry analysis on a BD FACSJazz (BD Biosciences), and data were acquired with the BD FACS Sortware. mNeonGreen and mCherry were excited with 488 and 561 nm solid-state lasers, and their emission was detected using 513/17 and 610/20 nm emission filters, respectively. For each sample, fluorescence of 20 000 cells was captured, and the data was analysed using FCS Express 7 (De Novo Software).