Hi Millie-
At 05:34 PM 9/7/00 -0400, mcada002@mc.duke.edu wrote:
> A customer needs to know what chemical/enzyme? is known by the
>abbreviations: IBzo and NCS. These are used in cleaving proteins.
>
*I'd go for IBzo = iodosobenzoic acid, for cleaving (when the force is with
you) at Trp, and NCS = generic reference to any isothiocyanate, or maybe
specifically to phenylisothiocyanate - Edman reagent - I think most
everyone uses PITC to abbreviate that altho the more chemically-inclined
might use [phi]NCS.
Regards,
John
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