title: Fluorescence quenching of tryptophan and related compounds by hydrogen peroxide.
abstract: The fluorescence of tryptophan and some related derivatives was found to be quenched by hydrogen peroxide. The quenching mechanism was shown to be essentially dynamic in nature, without any ground-state complex formation, and it is interpreted as resulting through an electron transfer from the excited indole ring to hydrogen peroxide.
mesh_terms: D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide; D008956:Models, Chemical; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence; D014364:Tryptophan / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D014364:Tryptophan; D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide