Relative Reactivity to Iodination of Tyrosine Residues in
-Chymotrypsin
S. K. Dube 1, O. A. Roholt 1, and D. Pressman 1
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1 From the Department of Biochemistry Research, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, New York 14203
The relative reactivity toward iodination of each of the 4 tyrosine residues in chymotrypsin was determined. The results showed that the reactivities of the tyrosine residues in native uniodinated chymotrypsin are in the order 146 > 94 > 171 > 229 with relative reactivities of 1:0.4 and 0.2:0.02, respectively. The relative reactivities indicate that one of the C chain tyrosines, namely 229, is buried since it is at most only 10% as reactive as the next least reactive tyrosine.
Submitted on December 17, 1965