Use of chitosan gel for the purification of protein

• Autor(a) principal: Tang,ZhenXing
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Qian,JunQing
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132007000200015
• topic: Chitosan; Gel; Preparation; Application

The aim of this study was to optimize the preparation of chitosan gel and to use it for protein purification. The optimized preparation parameters were chitosan concentration 2.0%, glutaraldehyde concentration 0.6%, low cross-linking rate, NaOH concentration 1.6%, amount of NaBH4 0.4 g. In order to use the chitosan gel, the elution conditions were optimized as follows. NaCl concentration 0.05 mol/L in the tris-HCl (pH 9.05) at the flow rate of 2.03.0 mL/min. Particle size of chitosan gel was 120-140 µm. Neutral protease could be separated into four ingredients through chitosan gel column. The yield of enzyme was more than 90%. Albumin bovine serum could be separated into two ingredients through gel column and the total yield of albumin bovine serum was more than 70%.