A cautionary note on pentacyanoammonioferrate use for determining L-canavanine occurrence in biological materials

Experientia - Tập 38 - Trang 1034-1035 - 1982
G. A. Rosenthal1,2, D. L. Dahlman1,2
1T.H. Morgan School of Biological Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
2Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

Tóm tắt

Caution must be taken in the prevelant use of the pentacyanoammonioferrate reagent for the detection of L-canavanine in biological materias. This reagent reacts with L-histidine at neutral pH to form a pentacyanoammonioferate-histidine complex that is mistaken readily for its canavanine-containing counterpart.

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