This paper describes a mechanism of coupling periodate-oxidized nucleosides to proteins. Each of the dialdehyde groups of a periodate-oxidized nucleoside is shown to couple to lysine residues on different protein molecules through Schiff bases, thereby cross-linking different protein molecules, forming a polymer. This is in contrast to the previous model in which nucleosides were suggested to c...

Atropisomeric biaryls carrying ortho-hydroxymethyl and formyl groups were made enantioselectively by desymmetrisation of dialdehyde or diol substrates. The oxidation of the symmetrical diol substrates was achieved using a variant of galactose oxidase (GOase), and the reduction of the dialdehydes using a panel of ketoreductases. Either M or P enantiomers of the products could be formed, with abs...

The objective of this study was to determine whether electroconvulsions lead to excessive lipid peroxidation. The concentrations of the conjugated dienes (CD) and malonyl dialdehyde (MDA) in the homogenates of the brains after seizures induced with 25 mA current (MES) measured immediately after seizures were significantly higher in comparison with the control brains. There were no significant d...

A double column-switching HPLC method with naphthalene-2,3-dialdehyde (NDA) was applied for determination of two plasma antihypertensive peptides, Val-Tyr (VY) and Ile-Val-Tyr (IVY). After a first separation on a Phe-ODS column, double heart-cuts of the retention time corresponding to NDA-VY and NDA-IVY elutions were successfully separated on an analytical ODS column: 60% acetonitrile in 0.1% t...

Whitfeld and Markham (1) described a method for the stepwise degradation of polyribonucleotides which involved oxidation of the vicinal hydroxyl groups of the terminal nucleoside residue to a dialdehyde by means of periodate, followed by treatment with glycine at pH 10.5 to remove the terminal base. In this way they converted GpC to 3’-GNP and cytosine. A similar procedure was applied to 5’-AMP...

Three photolabile analogs of substrates of methionyl-tRNA synthetase were synthesized. In one, the 4-thiouridine at the 8 position of E. coli tRNAfMet was alkylated with [14C]p-azidobromoacetanilide. In the second, [14C]p-azidobenzoic acid hydrazide was condensed with the 3'-terminal dialdehyde of periodate-oxidized Escherichia coli tRNAfMet. The modified tRNAs could be purified by chromatograp...