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“ Tryptophan reversibly inhibited production of hypochlorous acid by purified myeloperoxidase by converting the enzyme to a mixture of compound II and compound III.”
“Two agents that both scavenge 1O2 and antagonise hypochlorous acid (HOCl-), histidine and tryptophan , were also powerful inhibitors of ActPMN killing.”
Journal of medical microbiology • 1988 | View Paper
“Cysteine, tryptophan , and methionine were proven to be the most vulnerable amino acids for degradation upon hypochlorous and peracetic acid treatment, while tyrosine was only prone to degradation in the presence of hypochlorous acid.”