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THE properties of crystalline tobacco mosaic virus protein serve to make it a most interesting substance for photochemical investigation. Its photo-inactivation by ultra-violet radiation has been demonstrated by several workers1,2, who have reported a monomolecular reaction for the process, thus indicating that the absorption of a single quantum is sufficient to bring about inactivation of this gigantic molecule. However, the quantum yield of this reaction has never been determined, although it is now possible to do so from existing data by assembling the necessary information from several sources. This calculation will now be made.
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UBER, F. A Quantum Yield for the Inactivation of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Protein. Nature 147, 148 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147148a0
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