The purification of human urinary kallikrein with ion-exchange radial flow membrane chromatography

Purification of native dehydrin from Glycine Max cv., Pisum sativum, and Rosmarinum officinalis by affinity chromatography

An improved method for the purification of dehydrin from soy (glycine max) is described. Acidic extraction of soy whey was followed by a three step chromatographic process: capture on copper charged Chelating Sepharose Big Beads, intermediate hydrophobic interaction chromatography on Source 15 PHE, and a polishing step on blue Sepharose. The 32-kDa native soy dehydrin was purified to a purity of greater than 98.5% with an overall recovery of 63%. When compared to a previously published purification procedure, recovery, time requirements, and sample preparation steps were improved. The developed method is readily scaleable. Preliminary results show that the process can be used for dehydrins from rosemary (Rosmarinum officinalis) and pea (Pisum sativum).

Affinity membrane chromatography for the analysis and purification of proteins

Affinity chromatography is unique among separation methods as it is the only technique that permits the purification of proteins based on biological functions rather than individual physical or chemical properties. The high specificity of affinity chromatography is due to the strong interaction between the ligand and the proteins of interest. Membrane separation allows the processing of a large amount of sample in a relatively short time owing to its structure, which provides a system with rapid reaction kinetics. The integration of membrane and affinity chromatography provides a number of advantages over traditional affinity chromatography with porous-bead packed columns, especially with regard to time and recovery of activity. This review gives detailed descriptions of materials used as membrane substrates, preparation of basic membranes, coupling of affinity ligands to membrane supports, and categories of affinity membrane cartridges. It also summarizes the applications of cellulose/glycidyl methacrylate composite membranes for proteins separation developed in our laboratory.

Alkaline treatment of the cellulose fiber affecting membrane column behaviour for high-performance immunoaffinity chromatography

The original cellulose fibers and those treated by alkaline solution were both used to prepare the acrylic membranes. The two kinds of membranes were packed into the columns for high-performance immunoaffinity chromatography by the immobilization of protein A on them. It was observed that the alkaline treatment of the cellulose fiber decreased the pressure resistance of the membrane to the mobile phases and greatly increased the accessible volume to the proteins, but affected the adsorption capacity of human IgG on the protein A membrane columns less. There is little difference between those two kinds of membranes on the adsorption capacities of HIgG, which means that the alkaline treatment of the cellulose fiber only significantly changes the void volume inter-membrane, and the porosity and surface area of membrane less. Alkaline treatment of the cellulose fiber reduced the membrane-column efficiency significantly. Some typical examples for the immunoaffinity analysis of IgG from human and dog plasma on the protein A membrane columns are illustrated.

Immobilized iminodiacetic acid (IDA)-type Cu2+ -chelating membrane affinity chromatography for purification of bovine liver catalase

A metal ion chelating membrane medium based on iminodiacetate-substituted modified short cotton cellulose was examined for the purification of bovine liver catalase (BLC). The effect of buffer pH, chelator surface density, initial concentration of crude enzyme and flow rate on BLC binding efficiency to the copper ion chelating membrane adsorbent were examined. Under the chromatographic conditions chosen, 67.7% recovery of BLC was attained with an overall 4.2-fold increase in specific activity in a single step. After performance of BLC purification, the chelating membrane adsorbent can be easily regenerated by imidazole or EDTA buffer with higher reviving effectiveness with the latter.

Membrane supports as the stationary phase in high-performance immunoaffinity chromatography

The membrane with a composite of cellulose grafted with acrylic polymers formed by polymerizing a glycidyl methacrylate in the presence of dispersed cellulose fiber was prepared as the stationary phase; the column (40 x 4 mm i.d.) which was compatible with the HPLC instrument was packed with pieces of the cut membrane. Protein A and human IgG were immobilized on the membrane stationary phase. The column based on the membrane support provided us good reproducibility, high efficiency, and low back pressure. High-performance immunoaffinity chromatographic analysis of human IgG in serum and polyclonal antibody to human IgG raised in goat was performed within 2.5 min. The fast-speed immunoaffinity analysis was developed by increasing the flow rate of the mobile phase and decreasing the duration time for the switch of the mobile phase; an operation for immunoaffinity analysis of human IgG could be finished within 30 s.