Urotensin II, a somatostatin-like fish hormone, was synthesized in a conventional manner using thioanisole-mediated deprotection with trifluoromethanesulfonic acid. The synthetic peptide was indistinguishable from the natural peptide in terms of both biological activity and chromatographic behavior.
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Akaji et al. (1982) studied this question.