FIG. 5.
Pretreatment with AMS in intact cells blocks periplasmic cysteine replacements from subsequent PEGylation. Cells were reacted with (+) and without (−) AMS for 45 min before being washed and probed with mPEG under denaturing conditions as described in the text. Aer-mPEG adducts (Aer-mp) showed a mobility shift. The enlarged lanes in the lower panel are higher exposures taken from different Western blots; these highlight replacements 184 and 187, which were reproducibly blocked by AMS.