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Continuous foaming for protein recovery: Part II. Selective recovery of proteins from binary mixtures

✍ Scribed by A. K. Brown; A. Kaul; J. Varley


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
97 KB
Volume
62
Category
Article
ISSN
0006-3592

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✦ Synopsis


Foam separation may have potential for protein recovery. However, for foam separation to be a viable protein recovery technique it is important to demonstrate, not only that high enrichments and recoveries can be achieved for single proteins, but also that high enrichments and recoveries, together with selectivity of partition, can be achieved for recovery from multi- component mixtures. Most process streams which require purification are indeed complex multi-component mixtures, for example, fermentation broths. In this study, three binary protein mixtures were chosen for continuous foam separation: ␤-casein:lysozyme; Bovine serum albumin (BSA):lysozyme and ␤-casein:BSA (mixtures 1, 2, and 3, respectively). For each of these mixtures, the expected outcome of each experiment, based on a previous knowledge and determination of relevant protein physical properties, was that the first protein should be preferentially separated into the foam phase. On the basis of results reported in Part I of this study for the continuous foam separation of ␤-casein, conditions found to favor maximum enrichment were selected. For each mixture a range of concentrations of both proteins was considered. For mixture 1, maximum protein recoveries in the foam phase were 85.6% and 25% for ␤-casein and lysozyme, respectively; and for mixture 2, maximum recoveries of 77.6% and 18.9% were obtained for BSA and lysozyme, respectively. Maximum enrichment ratios in the foam phase were 79.4 and 2.5 for ␤-casein and lysozyme respectively in mixture 1; and 74.0 and 1.4 for BSA and lysozyme respectively in mixture 2. Selective partitioning of ␤-casein and BSA into the foam phase was obtained in mixtures 1 and 2, respectively, particularly for protein concentrations at which dilute protein films are known to form at the gas-liquid interface in the foam. Maximum partition ratios for mixtures 1 and 2 were 31.8 and 52.8, respectively. For mixture 3, both BSA and ␤-casein were enriched into the foam phase. Maximum enrichments were 42.9 and 24.7 for BSA and ␤-casein, respectively; however, selective partitioning in mixture 3 was limited (maximum partition ratio being 1.8).


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✍ A. K. Brown; A. Kaul; J. Varley 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 154 KB

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