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Searching for a UV-filter in the eyes of high flying birds

Zawadzka, M.; Racz, B.; Ambrosini, D.; Gorbitz, C. H.; Morth, J. P.; Lundanes, E.; Rise, F.; Ringvold, A.; Wilson, S. R.; Wilkins, A.; Presto Elgstoen, K. B.; Osteby, A.

2020-06-23 biochemistry
10.1101/336644 bioRxiv
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An ultraviolet (UV)-absorbing compound of unknown identity is present in the aqueous humor of geese and other birds flying at high altitudes. A goose aqueous humor extract, that was believed to contain the UV protective compound which was designated as "compound X", was fractionated and examined using a variety of spectroscopic techniques including LC-MS and high field one- and two dimensional-NMR methods. A series of compounds were identified but none of them appeared to be the UV protective "compound X". It may be that the level of the UV protective compound in goose aqueous humor is much less than the compounds identified in our investigation, or it may have been degraded by the isolation and chromatographic purification protocols used in our investigations.

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