Cromatografia de permeação em gel em escala semi-preservativa aplicada à caracterização, purificação e fracionamento do ácido hialurônico produzido por cultivo de microorganismos

• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Anayla dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/15772
• topic: Engenharia química; Ácido hialurônico; Cromatografia; Purificação

Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a linear, unbranched polymer, composed by simple disaccharide units, whose molar mass may range in a wide interval of distribution (104-107 Da). It is used in pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications depending on its average molecular mass. The fractionation of macromolecules of the order of magnitude of the HA may be performed by gel permeation or size-exclusion chromatography (GPC). The objective of this work is to study the characterization, purification and fractionation of microbial HA by using GPC. HA was supplied by the Department of Biotechnological Processes (DPB/FEQ/UNICAMP), having been produced by microorganisms – Streptococcus zooepidemicus – in synthetic culture media. After being centrifuged from the fermentation broth, HA was precipitated with ethanol and then dissolved in saline solution, this pre-purification procedure being performed up to four times. The presence of proteic contaminants was identified by electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gel under denaturant conditions (SDS-PAGE) and quantified by the Bradford method. For the HA sample which had been precipitated in ethanol and dissolved in 0.1 M NaNO3 four times, protein concentration was found to be nearly 100 μg/mL. The sodium salt of commercial (Sigma Aldrich - EUA) microbial HA was used as standard in order to measure a calibration curve to assess HA concentration in the samples. For the sample precipitated in ethanol and dissolved in 0.1 M NaNO3 four times, AH concentration was found to be approximately 780 μg/mL. Molar mass distribution of HA samples was assessed by GPC, both in analytical and semi-preparative scale, using refractive index (RI) and UV/Vis (280 nm) detectors, 0.1 M NaNO3 as mobile phase, flow rate 0.8 mL/min and tracers dextran and pullulan (polymers of similar hydrodynamic volume as compared to HA) as molar mass standards. The samples showed molar mass distributions in the range of 103 to 107 Da, after being precipitated and dissolved four times. For these samples, the average molar mass was found to be in the order of magnitude of 105 Da. In the semi-preparative column Superose, it was possible to separate HA fractions, with molar mass above 105 Da, and free of proteic contaminants, in an elution interval of 10 minutes