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IN photodynamic therapy, the damage of protein results from the photooxidation of one ormore of only five amino acid residues (tryptophanyl, tyrosyl, histidyl, methionyl and cys-teinyl). These five amino acids are also readily photooxidized in their monomeric states. How-ever, the reaction kinetics and mechanisms of free amino acids and bound amino acid residuesin proteins are somewhat different. For example, Tassin found that the incorporation of tryp-tophan into a peptide linkage dramatically altered its susceptibility to photooxidation as well as