Journal
ELECTROPHORESIS
Volume 33, Issue 16, Pages 2584-2590Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/elps.201200153
Keywords
Capillary electrophoresis; Kinetic capillary electrophoresis; Protein adhesion; Semipermanent coating
Funding
- NSERC Canada
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Protein adsorption to the inner capillary wall hinders the use of kinetic capillary electrophoresis (KCE) when studying noncovalent proteinligand interactions. Permanent and dynamic capillary coatings have been previously reported to alleviate much of the problems associated with protein adsorption. The characteristic limitations associated with permanent and dynamic coatings motivated us to look at a third type of coating semipermanent. Here, we demonstrate that a semipermanent capillary coating, designed by Lucy and co-workers, comprised of dioctadecyldimethylammonium bromide (DODAB) and polyoxyethylene (POE) stearate, greatly reduces protein adsorption at physiological pH a necessary requirement for KCE. The coating (i) does not inhibit proteinDNA complex formation, (ii) prevents the adsorption of the analytes, and (iii) supports an electoosmotic flow required for many applications of KCE. The coating was tested in three physiological buffers using a well-known DNA aptamer and four proteins that severely bind to bare silica capillaries as standards. For every protein, a condition was found under which the semipermanent coating effectively suppresses protein adhesion. While no coating can completely prevent the adsorption of all proteins, our findings suggest that the DODAB/POE stearate coating can have a broad impact on CE at large, as it prevents the absorption of several well studied, highly adhesive proteins at physiological pH.
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