Analysis of contaminants in commercial preparations of the tetrapeptide tuftsin by high-performance liquid chromatography.
Analysis of contaminants in commercial preparations of the tetrapeptide tuftsin by high-performance liquid chromatography.
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采用高效液相色谱法分析四肽促尿素商业制剂中的污染物。
DOI:
10.1016/s0021-9673(00)81826-9
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发表时间:
1981
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通讯作者:
Nishioka,K
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作者:
Amoscato,AA;Babcock,GF;Nishioka,K
180 NOTES stimulated with commercially available tuftsin exhibit a lower than normal phagocytic response and very often are unresponsive to tuftsin’s phagocytic, bactericidal and tumoricidal stimulatory activity. Peptides of similar structure have been documented as potent inhibitors of tuftsin’s stimulatory activities l3 These and other contaminants-could indeed lead to discrepancies in target cell response and may, in certain cases, require higher concentrations to elicit biologica activities. Therefore, it is imperative that the_ purity of commercial preparations of tuftsin be verified before their use in future investigations_ Consequently, we undertook a detailed study of a biologically inactive commercial preparation of tuftsin usin, w reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography(HPLC).Over the past several years, reversed-phase HPLC in conjunction with ionpairing reagents, has been employed in the analysis of peptides and proteins with great success’~-‘6. It offers several advantages over the purification procedures currently employed in tuftsin syntheses’7-“, including a relatively rapid analysis time, the ability to distinguish racemized forms and the relative ease of adapting it to a preparative scale. The chromatographic system in this report demonstrates the heterogeneity of a commercial preparation of tuftsin with subsequent enhancement of biological activity of the purified product above that of the starting sample.