Constructing products of high synthetic value from inexpensive and abundant starting materials is of great importance. Aryl iodides are essential building blocks for the synthesis of functional molecules, and efficient methods for their synthesis from chemical feedstocks are highly sought after. Here we report a low-cost decarboxylative iodination that occurs simply from readily available benzo...

Gel electrophoresis of reduced thyroglobulin from normal human thyroids showed five major iodinated components, with estimated molecular masses of >300,000 daltons (14% of thyroglobulin’s iodine), 230,000 (30%), 45,000 (4.5%), 26,000 (17%), and 18,000 (4%). The 26,000and 18,000-dalton components had over 50% of their iodine as thyroxine. The 26,000-dalton iodopeptide had a single NHz-terminal,...

Mechanisms that have been proposed for peroxidase-catalyzed iodination require the utilization of 1 mol of H2O2 for organic binding of 1 mol of iodide. When we measured the stoichiometry of this reaction using thyroid peroxidase or lactoperoxidase at pH 7.0, we consistently obtained a ratio less than 1.0. This was shown to be attributable to catalase-like activity of these enzymes, resulting in...

The active site of antibody directed against the negatively charged p-azobenzenearsonic acid group has been shown to contain an iodine-reactive residue. The first evidence was provided by Pressman and Sternberger (1)) who demonstrated that iodination destroys the precipitating capacity of this antibody and that the loss can be prevented by the prior addition of the homologous hapten. Subsequent...

Phosphorylation of tyrosine residues by protein tyrosine kinases (PTK) and phosphotyrosine/Src homology 2 (SH2) domain interactions are crucial not only for signal transduction but also for regulation of PTK activity. Tyrosine residues also receive nitration and halogenation under oxidative conditions. It has been reported that nitration of tyrosine residue caused peptides to be a poor substrat...