[Interaction of ovomucoid from duck egg proteins with aldehydes-dextrans]

The interaction of ovomucoid proteinase inhibitor prepared from duck egg white with a dextran of a molecular weight of 70,000 preliminary treated with potassium periodate. Irrespective of the number of the sites of the ovomucoid binding to aldehyde-dextran the anti-chymotryptic activity is equal to that of the native inhibitor, while the antitryptic activity decreases proportionally to the number of ovomucoid amino groups involved in the reaction with dextran. When a few ovomucoid molecules are immobilized on the polysaccharide macromolecule the perturbing effect of the protein-protein interactions is minimal, as the rigid polymeric chain prevents from the formation of associates of proteins immobilized on this backbone.