“…Essential to this experimental strategy, when it is applied to studying the topology of anion exchanger, is a reagent that is specific for the functional group of only one particular type of amino acid and that cannot pass through the barrier provided by the plasma membranes of the erythrocytes. Lactoperoxidase, a high molecular weight protein obtained from bovine milk, has often been used to catalyze the iodination of tyrosine residues on anion exchanger (Morisson & Bayse, 1970;Morrison, 1980), even though the exact identity of the iodinating species generated when lactoperoxidase, iodide, and hydrogen peroxide are mixed together is unclear (Morrison & Schonbaum, 1976;Sun & Dunford, 1993;Huwiler et al, 1985;Huber et al, 1989). The conditions that have been established before and those that were used here, however, have been shown in both intact erythrocytes and sealed vesicles prepared from rough microsomes of rat liver to iodinate only the proteins on the exposed, exterior surface of the respective membranes while neither the intracellular hemoglobin nor the soluble components inside the microsomes were significantly labeled (Phillips & Morrison, 1970;Hubbard & Cohn, 1972;Kreibich et al, 1974).…”