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Changes in chlorophyll a and β-carotene fluorescence caused by hydrogen peroxide

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Hydrogen peroxide is shown to change the fluorescence of β-carotene and chlorophyll a as well as various mixtures of the pigments in Langmuir films and in complex with bovine serum albumin in water solution. Similar effects were shown for zinc etioporphyrin II in the films. No shifts of the fluorescence peaks were registered in any case.

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Abbreviations

Car:

β-carotene

Chl:

chlorophyll a

StA:

stearic acid

ZnEP:

zinc etioporphyrin II

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  1. Natural Sciences Center, Prokhorov Institute of General Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    I. A. Nagovitsyn, G. K. Chudinova, D. Yu. Shcherbakov & V. V. Savranskii

  2. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    G. G. Komissarov

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Original Russian Text © I.A. Nagovitsyn, G.K. Chudinova, D.Yu. Shcherbakov, V.V. Savranskii, G.G. Komissarov, 2007, published in Biofizika, 2007, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 205–208.

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Nagovitsyn, I.A., Chudinova, G.K., Shcherbakov, D.Y. et al. Changes in chlorophyll a and β-carotene fluorescence caused by hydrogen peroxide. BIOPHYSICS 52, 153–155 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350907020017

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