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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1987-11-17
pubmed:abstractText
The expression for the total number of isomeric structures formed upon oxidation of SH groups has previously been correctly obtained for single chain proteins only. Expressions have now been obtained for molecules consisting of 2 and 4 peptide chains of the types A2 and A2B2. The latter type is particularly important as exemplified by the immunoglobulins and the insulin receptor. For the oxidation of insulin A chain with 4 SH groups, the total number of isomeric A2 structures is 59--this is different to all the values previously reported. Lack of consideration of symmetry problems probably accounts for the erroneous results obtained by earlier workers for the number of ways of randomly joining two identical chains. The total number of isomeric structures formed from the oxidation of two light and two heavy chains with 5 and 11 SH groups respectively of the human immunoglobulin GI has been found to be 4.8 X 10(16).
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0022-5193
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
7
pubmed:volume
124
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
293-301
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1987
pubmed:articleTitle
Number of ways of joining SH groups to form multi-peptide chain proteins.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Biophysics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article