I was synthesizing a peptide which was N-methylated (backbone methylation), but now I want to remove that Methyl group so that it leaves back a normal peptide bond. Is this feasible? If yes then how?
Adam is right, you should re-synthesize the peptide... modifications of the N-term is usually irrevocable without harming the rest of the AA in the sequence. Did you actually mean the N-term modification? Why do you methylate the amide bonds?
Marcus its not the N-term modification. Its one of the amide bond in the peptide which we methylate, so instead of -CO-NH- in the peptide we have -CO-N(CH3)- at that peptide bond.
There are various utility of N-methylated peptide. You can go through some of the paper published from Horst Kessler's group in Department of Chem from Technical University of Munich.