Effective Purification Method of Large Molecular Weight Proteins Using Conventional AOT Reverse Micelles

JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING OF JAPAN

Yoshinobu Kawano²  Isao Komasawa¹  Koichiro Shiomori²  Ryoichi Kuboi¹ 

[1] Department of Chemical Engineering, Osaka University;Department of Materials Science, Miyazaki University

关键词: Separation;    Reverse Micelles;    Large Protein;    AOT;    Protein-Micellar Interaction;   

DOI  :  10.1252/jcej.28.803

来源: Maruzen Company Ltd

【 摘 要 】

References(23)Cited-By(13)Hydrophilic bulky proteins with molecular weights larger than 60 kDa, such as catalase, β-galactosidase, BSA and hemoglobin, can be easily solubilized into a micro water pool of AOT reverse micelles by the injection method. Those proteins and enzymes solubilized into reverse micelles maintain their activities and native structures, and can be back-extracted effectively to a new aqueous phase when the system pH is kept higher than their isoelectric points, pI, with low salt concentration, i.e. high water content. The back-extraction of hemoglobin is also partially achieved under these conditions. The efficiency of back-extraction is strongly influenced by the pH values in the feed protein solution and in the aqueous solution used for back-extraction, as well as KCl concentration in the solution. The pH values of both solutions should be higher than the protein pI together with high Wo or low salt concentration to preserve native structures and activities, since monomers and oligomers with relatively large molecular weight are likely to be denatured by association with ionic surfactant mediated by salt. In this case, both steric and electrostatic interactions between bulky proteins and micelles play dominant roles in the separation. By reducing interactions with micelles or surfactants, proteins solubitized in micelles can be effectively stabilized, and easily back-extracted to the aqueous phase without inactivation. The present method suggests an another way for the effective bioseparation of bulky proteins with high yields of activity.

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