Phosphorescence is readily detectable from most types of proteins at room temperature. Tryptophan phosphorescence lifetimes and yields are very sensitive to environment, and therefore phosphorescence is sensitive to conformational changes in proteins. Fundamental questions concerning exactly what parameters affect lifetime and spectra of tryptophan in proteins remain still to be answered.
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Vanderkooi, J. M. (2006). Tryptophan Phosphorescence from Proteins at Room Temperature. In Topics in Fluorescence Spectroscopy (pp. 113–136). Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47059-4_3
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