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Electron Magnetic Resonance Studies 199<br />

Fig. 2. Representative spin labels for protein labeling. The labels fall into two<br />

general classes. Thiol reactive alkylating agents (I and II) and thiol specific labels.<br />

Labels I (iodoacetamide spin label) and II (maleimide spin label, sometimes abbreviated<br />

MAL–6) react rapidly with –SH groups, but iodoacetamide can also partially<br />

alkylate the imidazole nitrogen of histidine, the thioether linkage in methionine and<br />

α- and ε-amino groups, depending on the pH. Likewise maleimides can alkylate<br />

α-amino groups. Labels III, IV(MTSSL), and V are thiol specific, the latter two<br />

resulting in covalent disulfide linkages with the protein. The lower scheme depicts<br />

the chemistry of labeling a cysteine on a polypeptide with MAL-6 and MTSSL,<br />

respectively. Adapted in part from ref. 9.

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