“…A partially cohesive view of the hormone binding surface has been deduced by a combination of studies such as examination of hormone and peptide ligand binding specificities (Breslow & Weis, 1972;Breslow et al, 1973;Gamier et al, 1973; Glasel et al, 1976;Nicolas et al, 1976), spectroscopic changes induced by binding of unlabeled ligands (Balaram et al, 1973;Griffin et al, 1973;Sur et al, 1979) and spin-labeled ligands (Lord & Breslow, 1980), effects of chemical modifications (Walter & Hoffman, 1973;Schlesinger et al, 1979), and photoaffinity labeling (Abercrombie et al, 1982b). The proximity to the hormone binding site of both a carboxylate anion and Tyr-49 has been discussed (Breslow & Garguilo, 1977;Nicolas et al, 1978; Abercrombie et al, 1982b). In contrast to data for the hormone binding site, little information is yet available for the neurophysin binding surface participating in self-association.…”