Specific 13C reductive methylation of glycophorin A. Possible relation of the N-terminal amino acid and the lysine residues to MN blood group specificities

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
R E HardyK Dill

Abstract

Heterozygous and homozygous glycophorin A were partially and fully reductively methylated with 13C-enriched formaldehyde in the presence of sodium cyanoborohydride. Total reductive methylation modified the five lysine residues (to produce N epsilon,N-[13C]dimethyl lysine) and the N-terminal amino acid residues (N alpha,N-[13C]dimethyl serine and leucine) of glycophorins AM and AN, respectively. 13C-NMR spectra of these species indicated that the 13C-enriched methyl carbons of the five lysyl derivatives all occur at 44.1 ppm downfield from Me4Si. Titration results indicate that the pK alpha of these methylated lysines is greater than 10. The chemical shift equivalent methyl resonances of the 13C-enriched methylated N-terminal Leu derivative were found to occur at 42.8 ppm downfield from Me4Si and exhibited a normal pH titration behavior (pK alpha approximately 7.4). The methyl resonances of the N alpha,N-[13C]dimethyl Ser derivative, on the other hand, were found to exhibit chemical shift nonequivalence, indicating rotational constraints about the C alpha-N bond. The linewidths of the two methyl resonances were also found to be considerably different; this phenomenon could be eliminated by running spectra of the sample (pH appro...Continue Reading

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