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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1982
Filed:
Feb. 28, 1980
Gerald L Rowley, San Jose, CA (US);
Danton Leung, Campbell, CA (US);
Prithipal Singh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Syva Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and compositions are provided for conjugating a wide variety of compounds, particularly polyfunctional compounds, having a mercapto group, either naturally present or synthetically introduced, to a polyamino compound, particularly a polypeptide (including proteins). The method employs a haloalkyl-carbonyl compound, which is conjugated to one or more of the amino groups under mild acylating conditions. This is followed by combining the acylated polyamino compound with a mercapto containing compound, whereby the halogen is displaced by the sulfur of the mercapto group to form a stable thioether linkage. The resulting conjugates, depending on the compounds involved, can find uses in immunoassays, as hapten-antigen conjugates for the production of antibodies, and as ligand analog enzyme conjugates for use as reagents in controlling the distribution of substitution of a mercapto compound to a polyamino compound.