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. 1980 Nov 1;191(2):657-9.
doi: 10.1042/bj1910657.

The photoinduced isomerization of bilirubin in cationic detergent solutions

Y N Au, D W Hutchinson

The photoinduced isomerization of bilirubin in cationic detergent solutions

Y N Au et al. Biochem J. .

Abstract

When bilirubin IX alpha in solution in a buffered aqueous cationic detergent near neutral pH is irradiated with visible light, a rapid equilibrium with bilirubin III alpha and XIII alpha is set up. Little isomerization can be detected under comparable conditions in anionic or neutral detergents. The rapid disproportionation of bilirubin monoglucuronide into unconjugated bilirubin and bilirubin diglucuronide also takes place on irradiation in a solution of a cationic detergent.

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