Prediction of diffusion coefficients of plasmids
β Scribed by D.M.F. Prazeres
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 118 KB
- Volume
- 99
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0006-3592
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
The ability to predict diffusion coefficients is important in the design, analysis, and operation of plasmid downstream processing operations such as membrane and fixedβbed chromatography. A correlation is proposed to predict the diffusion coefficient, D, of supercoiled plasmid DNA molecules in dilute solutions on the basis of the molecular weight, M, or size. Experimental data (18 points) collected from the literature confirmed the proposed variation of D with plasmid molecular weight as DβββM^β2/3^, for molecules within the 1,800β287,100 baseβpair range. The correlation was able to estimate the available experimental results with an average error of 6.3%. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2008; 99; 1040β1044. Β© 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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