Methylisothiocyanate에 의한 단백질의 아미노산 배열 결정시 순차적으로 분리되어 나오는 methylthiohydantion 아미노산을 기체 크로마토그라피로 효과적으로 정성 및 정량하기위하여 새로운 silylating reagent인 N-methyl-N-(tert.-butyldimethylsily)trifluoroacetamide를 사용하여 N-tert.-butyldimethylsily MTH 유도체로 silylation 한 후 HP-1 capillary column으로 분석하였다. Cystine을 제외한 21개의 단백질 구성 아미노산을 동정할 수 있었고 지금까지 packed column에서 TMS 유도체로 동정할 수 없었던 arginine도 분리 동정되었다. 2개 이상의 peak를 나타낸 것으로는 hydroxyproline, proline, isoleucine, glycine 및 tyrosine이었고 이중 hydroxyproline은 많은 수의 peak들로 분리되었다. Lysine, histidine 및 arginine은 주입량 $5.0;nmole{sim}15.0;nmole$의 범위에서 나머지는 $2.5;nmole{sim}7.5;nmole$의 범위에서 상관관계를 측정한 결과 고도의 직선 상관관계를 나타내었다(p<0.001). TMS 유도체에 의한 분석은 많은 불순 peak들 때문에 정량분석에 이용할 수 없었다.
For effective determination of methylthiohydantoin amino acids(MTHs) by gas liquid chromatography in the protein sequencing, derivatization with N-methyl-N-(tert.-butyl-dimethylsilyl)trifluoroacetamide(MTBSTFA), a new silylating reagents, was attempted instead of trimethylsilyl(TMSi) derivatives by N,O-bis(trimethylsilyl)trifluoroacetamide(BSTFA) used up to the present and N(O)-butyldimethylsilyl MTHs derivatized by MTBSTFA were analysed on HP-1 capillary column. Twenty one protein amino acids except cystine were indentified. Especially arginine that did not detected with TMSi derivative on packed column until now was resolved by derivatization with MTBSTFA. N(O)-butyldimethylsilyl MTHs showed multiple peaks by MTBSTFA were proline, isoleucine, glycine and tyrosine and hydroxyproline especially showed several extraneous peaks more than two. Calibration curves of N(O)-butyldimethysilyl MTHs of amino acids in the range of $2.5;nmol{sim}7.5;nmole$ showed good linearity. however, those of lysine, histidine and arginine showed linearity in the range of $5.0;nmole{sim}15.0;nmole$. Correlation coefficients and regression coefficients of all calibration curves were highly significant(p<0.001).
