Ammonia cleaves polypeptides at asparagine proline bonds

Journal of Peptide Research

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 245-251

  Tarelli, E ^a   Corran, P H ^b,c  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Asparagine; Calmodulin; Cleavage; Deamidation; MALDI ToF; Polypeptide; Proline

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMIDE; AMMONIA; ASPARAGINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PHENYLALANINE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROLINE; SERINE; SUCCINIMIDE; THREONINE; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; DEAMINATION; DISSOCIATION; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ASPARAGINE; CATTLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; PROLINE;

EID: 0348014887     PISSN: 1397002X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1399-3011.2003.00089.x     Document Type: Article

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