Three-Phase Affinity Partitioning of Proteins
β Scribed by Ipsita Roy; Munishwar N. Gupta
- Book ID
- 102560259
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 93 KB
- Volume
- 300
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-2697
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β¦ Synopsis
Three-phase partitioning is an elegant way to separate proteins directly from even the large volumes of crude suspensions. It was found that interfacing it with a metal-affinity-based step makes the technique highly selective. As "proof of the concept," soybean trypsin inhibitor was purified 13-fold with 72% recovery. As recombinant proteins (via their polyhistidine tags) and many other naturally occurring proteins are often purified by immobilized metal ion affinity chromatography, the technique described here should prove valuable in purifying biotechnologically important proteins at a large scale.
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Aqueous polymer three-phase systems composed of dextran-Ficoll-polyethylene glycol-water have been used for affinity partition of proteins. The upper, middle, and lower phases are rich in polyethylene glycol, Ficoll, and dextran, respectively. Affinity partition was performed using the reactive dyes