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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 22.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2010 Dec 6;13(6):2394–2400. doi: 10.1039/c0cp02047h

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

The three aromatic amino acids in proteins, phenylalanine (Phe), tyrosine (Tyr), and tryptophan (Trp), contain the chromophores benzene, phenol, and indole, respectively. The 1Lb and 1La excitations dominate the NUV signals in the wavelength region above 250 nm.