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Science 6 February 1976:
Vol. 191. no. 4226, pp. 468 - 469
DOI: 10.1126/science.1108203

Articles

Science, Vol 191, Issue 4226, 468-469
Copyright © 1976 by American Association for the Advancement of Science


articles

Characterization of a cell-lethal product from the photooxidation of tryptophan: hydrogen peroxide

JP McCormick, Fischer JR, JP Pachlatko, and A Eisenstark

Near-ultraviolet (300 to 400 nanometers) irradiation of saturated, oxygenated solutions of tryptophan in the absence of added sensitizer gives rise to substances that have various biological effects on isolated cells, including mutagenicity and selective lethality to recombination-deficient bacterial mutants. One of these biologically active products has been identified as H2O2, on the basis of spectrometric, chromatographic, chemical, and biological properties. Now H2O2 has been shown to account for the biological activities mentioned above.


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