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Comments on the Tryptophan Lifetime Puzzle

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Until 1972,1 the fluorescence decay of tryptophan was believed to be singly exponential with a lifetime on the order of 3 ns (the “classic” value), but in the last few years a number of published reports have generated amazing confusion in this particular subject (Table 1).

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  1. University of Salford, Salford, UK

    R. B. Cundall

  2. Paterson Laboratories, Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute, Manchester, UK

    R. E. Dale

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Lopez-Delgado, R. (1983). Comments on the Tryptophan Lifetime Puzzle. In: Cundall, R.B., Dale, R.E. (eds) Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Biochemistry and Biology. NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series, vol 69. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1634-4_32

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