Reduction of methionine sulfoxide with N
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Marta Vilaseca; Ernesto Nicolás; Fina Capdevila; Ernest Giralt
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Article
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1998
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Elsevier Science
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French
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The reduction of methionine sulfoxide with ammonium iodide in trifluoroacetic acid has been studied in peptides containing cysteine, histidine, tyrosine or tryptophan residues. While histidine and tyrosine have proved to be stable under the experimental conditions, cysteine is oxidized to cystine an