Factors Affecting Cyanoborohydride Reduction of Aromatic Schiff’s Bases in Proteins
- 1 January 1977
- book chapter
- Published by Springer Nature
Abstract
Reductive alkylation of bovine serum albumin (BSA) and wool by aromatic aldehydes and sodium cyanoborohydride has been investigated. The aldehydes used were chosen to allow convenient quantitative measurement of binding by ultraviolet spectroscopy. Alkylation of BSA occurred primarily at two highly reactive sites. Variation of time, pH, reactant concentration, and addition of urea had little effect on the extent of alkylation of BSA. However, more extensive alkylation was achieved in buffered aqueous dimethyl sulfoxide. The unusual reactivity of two γ-amino groups on the BSA molecule is attributed to closely placed lysine residues in the primary sequence rather than to favorable placement of unrelated, distant reactive centers. Similarly, only a few of the potentially available γ-amino groups of wool were observed to react.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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