The method of afkity labeling provides a general method for attaching a covalently bound label to the active sites of antibody and enzyme molecules. Previous studies with antibodies directed to the benzenearsonate hapten were entirely in accord with the predictions of the method. In the present studies, antibodies to the 2,4dinitrophenyl (DNP) hapten were investigated. The labeling reagent p-nitrophenyldiawnium fluoborate was found to react irreversibly with an excess of the unproteded antibody: (a) at a much more rapid rate than with the antibody whose active sites were protected with an excess of N-DNP-e-aminocaproic acid; (b) to give a product with stentially a pure azotyrosine spectrum; (c) at a rate which was first-order in the concentration of the reversible complex formed initially between the reagent and the antibody s i t s , in accord with the mechanism proposed for affinity labeling; and (d) to produce a loss of antibody binding sites corresponding closely to the number of azotyrosine groups formed. Related but less extensive studies were carried out with DNP-diazonium and p(carboxy)-benzenediazonium fluoborates and with other reagents. The results closely follow the predictions of the method, and provide strong evidence that a tyrosine residue is present in anti-DNP antibody sites. The results also indicate that there is a broad distribution of rates a t which the antibody sites are labeled, and therefore that the sites are heterogeneous. These studies provide the basis for an attempt to isolate and analyze labeled peptide