A method was developed for the isolation of the N-terminal peptides of glycoproteins with N-substituted N-terminal amino acid. The N-terminal tripeptide derived from α1-acid glycoprotein, a constituent of normal human plasma, was composed of N-terminal pyroglutamic acid, proline and C-terminal isoleucine.
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Ikenaka et al. (1965) studied this question.