Abstract
In the course of isolating and identifying the reducible compounds of connectin fibrils from chicken breast muscle, we found the presence of the lysine-derived cross-link, aldimine form of lysinonorleucine. The failure to detect this compound by Robins and Rucklidge (1980) might be due to treatment of the samples with a crude collagenase preparation, which resulted in complete digestion of connectin. The results from the present study strongly indicate that connectin participates in the lysyl oxidase-mediated cross-linking system which occurs in collagen and elastin.
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