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. 1974 Jun;139(3):515–523. doi: 10.1042/bj1390515

The reactivity of the disulphide bonds of wool

H Lindley 1, R W Cranston 1
PMCID: PMC1166316  PMID: 4408385

Abstract

1. Fully reduced and S-carboxymethylated wool samples were prepared in which either the readily reducible cystine bonds or those that could only be reduced with difficulty were specifically labelled with iodo[2-14C]acetate; these two cystine fractions correspond to the (A+B) and (C+D) cystine fractions respectively, of Middlebrook & Phillips (1942). 2. Radioactively labelled peptides were isolated from partial acid hydrolysates of these wool samples. 3. It appears that the (A+B) cystine residues probably owe their increased reactivity to being in a more polar environment. 4. The implication of these results for the problem of characterizing the disulphide bonds of wool is briefly discussed.

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