Screening the recognition properties of peptide hormone sequence mutants by analytical high performance liquid affinity chromatography on immobilized neurophysin

Abstract

Analytical high performance liquid affinity chromatography with immobilized neurophysin was used as a molecular screen to evaluate the effects of peptide hormone structure modification on protein recognition. Immobilization of neurophysin on silica and highly cross-linked agarose occurred with retention of oxytocin and vasopressin binding properties. The effects of one-residue-at-a-time mutation, multi-site sequence simplification, and sequence randomization of critical contact residues were evaluated by extent of binding of the peptides on the affinity matrix. The analytical chromatography method also was used as a stereoselective detector to identify racemic contaminants in peptide hormone preparations.