Splitting the CONH Linkage by Means of Ultraviolet Light1

DC Carpenter

Index: Carpenter Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1940 , vol. 62, p. 289

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Citation Number: 22

Abstract

Any method which would enable us to break selectively the peptide (CONH) linkage between certain of the various amino acids of a protein, should bring forth a certain amount of information on the arrangement of the individual amino acids within the molecule. Inasmuch as the specific properties of proteins such as insulin probably depend on the presence of a certain sequence of grouping of amino acids in the molecule, a method ...