(Fremont, CA). TentaGel resin was purchased from Rapp Polymere GmbH
(German). All other reagents were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich or
Alfa Aesar, unless otherwise specified. All of the chemical reagents
and solvents from commercial sources were used without further purification.
Five mL and 10 mL disposable reaction columns (Intavis AG) were used
as reaction vessels for solid-phase synthesis. Syntheses of peptiods
under microwave conditions were performed in a 1500 W microwave oven
(GE model JE 1860BH04) with 10% power. HPLC was carried out on Waters
systems equipped with Waters 1525 binary HPLC pumps and a 2487 dual
λ
absorbance detector, or a 2998 photodiode array detector. The mobile
phase comprised of buffer A (H2O containing 20% CH3CN and 0.1% trifluoroacetic acid (TFA)) and buffer B (CH3CN containing 0.1% TFA). Analytical HPLC was conducted using
a Vydac C-18 column (5 μm, 250 × 4.6 mm, Alltech, Deerfield,
IL) at a flow rate of 1.0 mL/min with UV detection at 220 nm. MS and
MS/MS (MALDI-TOF) were performed on a 4800 Proteomics Analyzer (Applied
Biosystems) with α-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (CHCA) as a
matrix. All steps involving water utilized distilled water filtered
through a Barnstead Nanopure filtration system (Thermo Scientific)