Isolation and Partial Characterization of Methylated Arginines from the Encephalitogenic Basic Protein of Myelin

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Journal Biochem J

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 1971 Jun 1

PMID 5128665

Citations 10

Authors

G S Baldwin

P R Carnegie

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Abstract

Two methylated derivatives of arginine were isolated from the encephalitogenic protein of myelin from the central nervous system. Evidence is presented for the proposed structures, omega-NN'-dimethylarginine and omega-N-monomethylarginine. In the encephalitogenic protein from human brain the proportion 1:6:10 for arginine:monomethylarginine:dimethylarginine residues was found to occur at position 107. Possible roles for the methylated arginine in conformational changes and altered ion-exchange behaviour are discussed.

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