Facile synthesis and altered ionization efficiency of diverse Nε-alkyllysine-containing peptides

Abstract

Protein lysine methylation is a biologically-important posttranslational modification. Given the increased use of alkyllysine-containing peptides to study protein methylation, we describe an efficient solid-phase synthesis to access various alkyllysine-containing peptides. As an exemplary application, we evaluated how ionization efficiency of the alkyllysine peptides affects mass spectrometric analysis.