Glutaraldehyde reagents

Recently the use of another bifunctional reagent, glutaraldehyde, has been described for the stabilization of DNA complexes with cationic peptide CWK18 [104]. The authors of this paper, however, limited the study to the protective effects toward nuclease degradation. 

The cross-linking method relies on bifimctional reagents to form intermolecular linkages between the enzyme molecules to render them insoluble. Often albumin is added as an extender and glutaraldehyde is most commonly employed. This material can then be either formed as a free standing membrane or applied to the inner surface of the dialysis membrane... 

The most common reagent used for cross-linking is glutaraldehyde (Figure 6). The reactive groups involved in the cross-linking are not only the free amino but also sulfhydryl- and hydroxy groups. 

An additional reaction reported for adenine involves the coupling of glutaraldehyde to the 6-amino group (Matthews and Kricka, 1988). However, reaction at this group with electrophilic reagents such as those discussed in Section 2 proceeds more slowly than that possible... 

Glutaraldehyde also can be used to create aldehydes on amine-containing polymers. The use of this reagent in derivatizing chromatography supports and other soluble polymers is well known (Hermanson et al., 1992). 

By far, the two most popular fezs-aldehyde reagents are formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde. 

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