Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 33, Issue 19, Pages 4729-4736Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b00566
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- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
- Olle Engqvist Byggmastare Foundation
- Bo Rydin's Foundation for Scientific Research
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Protein-based pharmaceutics are widely explored for healthcare applications, and 6 out of 10 best-selling drugs today are biologicals. The goal of this work was to evaluate the protein nanocellulose interactions in paper filter for advanced separation applications such as virus removal filtration and bioprocessing. The protein recovery was measured for bovine serum albumin (BSA), gamma-globulin, and lysozyme using biuret total protein reagent and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE), and the throughput was characterized in terms of flux values from fixed volume filtrations at various protein concentrations and under worst case experimental conditions. The affinity of cellulose to bind various proteins, such as BSA, lysozyme, gamma-globulin, and human IgG was quantified using a quartz crystal microbalance (QCMB) by developing a new method of fixing the cellulose fibers to the electrode surface without cellulose dissolution-precipitation. It was shown that the. mille-feuille filter exhibits high protein recovery, that is, similar to 99% for both BSA and lysozyme. However, gamma-globulin does not pass through the membrane due to its large size (i.e., >180 kDa). The PAGE data show no substantial change in the amount of dimers and trimers before and after filtration. QCMB analysis suggests a low affinity between the nanocellulose surface and proteins. The nanocellulose-based filter exhibits desirable inertness as a filtering material intended for protein purification.
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