>On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 mcada002@mc.duke.edu wrote:
>
>> Dear protein chemists,
>>
>> A customer needs to know what chemical/enzyme? is known by the
>> abbreviations: IBzo and NCS. These are used in cleaving proteins.
>>
>> We know nothing else about these.
>
>NCS = Neocarzinostatin. I don't know what IBzo is, though.
>
>Jenny
May I offer an alternative answer? I think that NCS stands for
n-chlorosuccinimide and IBzo (I'm really going out on a limb here) stands
for o-iodosobenzoic acid. Both are chemical reagents that cleave at
tryptophan residues.
Reference: Techniques in Protein Modification by Roger Lundblad, CRC
Press. pp. 56 and 57.
Chris
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