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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 15.
Published in final edited form as: Biochem J. 2012 Nov 15;448(1):83–91. doi: 10.1042/BJ20120992

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Singlet oxygen formation from methylene blue and its reaction with Trp. a) Formation of singlet oxygen generated by the irradiation of methylene blue and b) oxidation of a tryptophan residue to NFK and kynurenine by 1O2. (T1: triplet state; ISC: intersystem crossing)