title: Comparison of retention behavior of oligolysine and oligoarginine in ion-pairing chromatography using heptafluorobutyric acid.
abstract: This paper describes the retention behavior of oligolysine and oligoarginine peptides of different lengths as a function of heptafluorobutyric acid (HFBA) concentration in ion-pairing reversed-phase chromatography in isocratic elution. A mixture of oligolysine and a mixture of oligoarginine with number of amino acid residues (dp) from two to eight were conveniently prepared by one-pot protease-catalyzed synthesis. Analysis of the logarithm of the retention factor k as a function of [HFBA] for each oligopeptide component, using a closed pairing model, provided values for (1) number (n) of paired HFBA anions per peptide molecule, (2) equilibrium constant (K(ip,m)) for ion pairing between oligopeptides and HFBA anions, and (3) product of the phase ratio and the distribution constant of the paired oligopeptide between the mobile and stationary phases (βK(d,ip)). We found that βK(d,ip) of oligoarginine is larger compared with oligolysine having the same dp. A linear relationship was obtained for ln βK(d,ip) as a function of n + g · dp. By optimizing constant g separately for oligolysine and oligoarginine, we determined that g is larger for oligoarginine, in agreement with the higher hydrophobicity of arginine residues. Plotting the fraction of paired oligoarginine and oligolysine as a function of [HFBA] shows that the cooperative effect in forming ion pairs is greater for oligoarginine than oligolysine.
authors.affiliation: Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing of Macromolecules, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, USA.
authors.forename: Wenchun
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Xu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: Iwao
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Teraoka
authors.forename: Richard A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D056148:Chromatography, Reverse-Phase / Q000379:methods*; D005466:Fluorocarbons / Q000737:chemistry*; D007477:Ions; D009842:Oligopeptides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry*; D011107:Polylysine / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D005466:Fluorocarbons; D007477:Ions; D009842:Oligopeptides; D010455:Peptides; D011107:Polylysine; C015462:polyarginine; C033094:perfluorobutyric acid