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  • Researchers used o-phthaldialdehyde to decrease background noise in amino acid sequencing.
  • The effectiveness of this method was compared to Fluram blocking techniques.
  • Apomyoglobin and rabbit C-reactive protein were used as standard and test samples in the study.

Article Abstract

Use of o-phthaldialdehyde to chemically reduce the newly generated amino termini responsible for the progressively increasing background during an extended amino acid sequence analysis in a liquid phase sequencer has been described. The results have been compared with Fluram blocking using apomyoglobin and rabbit C-reactive protein as standard and unknown samples, respectively.

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