STUDIES ON THE EXCITED STATES OF PROTEINS

Abstract

The optical behavior of a Bullock lens and other proteins (under authors conditions) is dominated by their tryptophan which in a frozen watery solution, shows 2 emissions a short-lived one elicited by near UV and a long-lived one elicited by a shorter wave length. This indicates that the tryptophan within the protein is present in 2 different states which can be identified by their different excitability and light emission.