High-performance liquid chromatography of peptide bioregulators, their fragments and derivatives. I. Chromatographic pattern of corticotropin fragments of Zorbax ODS sorbent

The influence of acetonitrile concentration in the eluent and of the peptide hydrophobicity on the capacity factors has been studied. The equation is proposed that describes retention as a function of the eluent characteristics and the peptide composition. The hydrophobicity increments for -COOH, -NH2, and greater than CHCONH-fragments in the studied chromatographic system have been determined. The proposed model of peptide retention is useful for a prior evaluation of the eluent composition that is necessary to elute a compound at a given capacity factor. It can be also used for the qualitative interpretation of peptide chromatograms.