[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.