Dansylation of tyrosine: hindrance by N-ethylmorpholine and photodegradation of O-dansylated derivatives.
Dansylation of tyrosine: hindrance by N-ethylmorpholine and photodegradation of O-dansylated derivatives.
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酪氨酸的丹磺酰化:N-乙基吗啉的阻碍和 O-丹磺酰化衍生物的光降解。
DOI:
10.1016/0003-2697(77)90684-4
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发表时间:
1977
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
J. Wilson
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作者:
P. Felgner;J. Wilson
Dansylation of free tyrosine or of rat brain hexokinase (ATP:d-hexose 6-phosphotransferase: EC 2.7.1.1), which contains an N-terminal tyrosine residue, yields both the didansyl and N-monodansyl derivatives if N-ethylmorpholine is used in the dansylation procedure [W. R. Gray (1972)in Methods in Enzymology (Hirs, C. H. W., and Timasheff, S. N., eds.), Vol. 25, pp. 121–138, Academic Press, New York]. If the N-ethylmorpholine is replaced by NaHCO3buffer (pH 9.5), the didansyl derivative is formed almost exclusively, and the ambiguity resulting from the formation of two derivatives from a single N-terminal residue is thereby eliminated. Therefore, a slightly modified dansylation procedure, using NaHCO3buffer is recommended; the validity of the modified procedure was demonstrated by its successful application to six different proteins having previously known N-terminal amino acids. The didansyl and O-monodansyl derivatives of tyrosine are remarkably photolabile as compared to the N-dansyl derivatives. Unless specific precautions against unnecessary irradiation are observed, photolytic degradation of the didansyl tyrosine derivatives could occur during experimental manipulations; loss of the didansylated compound and formation of photolysis products complicates the interpretation of experiments in which a single didansyl derivative (of the N-terminal residue) is expected.