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The photo-oxidative effect of sunlight on the tryptophan residues of proteins and on free tryptophan is described. Evidence is presented that the indole ring is split to yield N'-formylkynurenine. The possible relation of this photo-oxidative change to changes in the lens proteins of brown cataracts is discussed.
Antoinette Pirie (1971) studied this question.
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