Alkylation of tryptophan occurred during the synthesis of a 19-amino acid peptide of the following sequence: Tyr Ala Ala Gln Asn Arg Arg Gly Leu Asp Leu Leu Phe Trp Glu Gln Gly Gly Leu. Alkylation was found to occur during cleavage of the peptide from the solid support under acidic conditions in the presence of Tmob, which is used for protecting glutamine and asparagine. Presence of alkylated tryptophan was confirmed by mass spectrometry, HPLC and amino acid sequence analyses.
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