Oxidation of enzyme‐substrate carbanion intermediates by extrinsic oxidants may result in irreversible paracatalytic inactivation of certain enzymes. In paracatalytically modified fructose‐1,6‐bisphosphate aldolase from rabbit muscle the polypeptide chain had been found to be crosslinked at active‐site Lys229 (Schiff base forming with substrate) and Lys146 by a phosphorylated three‐carbon moiety [Lubini, D. G. E. and Christen, P. (1979) Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 76, 2527–2531]. In the present study, the structure of this crosslink was elucidated by instrumental analysis. Aldolase was paracatalytically modified in the presence of fructose 1,6‐bisphosphate and hexacyanoferrate(III). The completely inactivated enzyme was digested with pronase. The crosslinked peptide was isolated by gel filtration and reverse‐phase HPLC. Mass spectroscopy, 1H‐ and 13C‐NMR showed that a derivative of dihydroxyacetone phosphate forms an amidine with the ɛ‐amino groups of the two lysine residues: