How does lactoperoxidase label Tyrosine residues?

Subject: How does lactoperoxidase label Tyrosine residues?

Date: Mon Jul 31 15:02:01 2006
Posted by Angela
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I know that lactoperoxidase labels exposed Tyrosine residues with iodine.  
However, I cannot determine why it fails to label a tyrosine-containing 
fragment of glycophorin, both in the intact and the ghost states.  Is the 
fragment's amino acid composition involved?

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