During the photooxidation of guanine-containing nucleotides and dinucleotides, the guanine moiety is destroyed to yield a reactive photointermediate which condenses with the amino groups of a copolymer composed of glutamyl and lysyl residues. Immunization of rabbits with such conjugates complexed to methylated bovine serum albumin results in the production of antibodies directed toward the haptens as well as toward the random copolymer. The specificities of the antisera to conjugates obtained with guanosine 5'-phosphate (GMP-5'), GpA, and GpU photoproducts were examined by complement fixation. The antibodies directed toward the mononucleotide coniugate show specificity toward the ribose 5 '-phosphate moieties of the nucleotides. In sera of rabbits immunized with photooxidized GpA and GpU conjugates, the antibodies are directed toward the 5 '-nucleotides, adenosine 5'-phosphate (AMP-5') and uridine 5 '-phos-