“…Various techniques such as ion-exchange chromatography with colorimetric and fluorescence detection have been applied to analyse the isopeptides (Friedman & Cuq, 1988;Fritsch & Klostermeyer, 1981;Henle, Walter, & Klostermeyer, 1993;Wilkinson & Hewavitharana, 1997). GC analysis of n-butyl esters of N(O)-trifluoroacetyl derivatives (Buser & Erbersdobler, 1984;Hasegawa &Iwata, 1982;Hasegawa, Mukai, Gotoh, Honjo, & Matoba, 1987), GC-MS analysis of diasteriomeric N(O,S)-perfluoropropionyl isopropyl esters (Liardon, 1991), and 2-D thin layer chromatography (Fujimoto, 1984) have been used. HPLC based on derivatisation with 9-flouroenylmethylchloroformate (FMOC) or dansyl chloride (D'Agostina, Boschin, Rinaldi, & Arnoldi, 2003;Faist, Drusch, Kiesner, Elmadfa, & Erbersdobler, 2000), or selective ion monitoring by LC-ESI-MS on FMOC-LAL are the most recent methods used (Calabrese, Mamone, Caira, Ferranti, & Addeo, 2009).…”