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Affinity Precipitation of Proteins Using Metal Chelates<br />

Ashok Kumar, Igor Yu. Galaev, and Bo Mattiasson<br />

Summary<br />

Metal affinity precipitation has been successfully developed as a simple purification<br />

process for the proteins that have affinity for the metal ions. The copolymers of vinylimidazole<br />

with N-isopropylacrylamide are easily synthesized by radical polymerization. When<br />

loaded with Cu(II) and Ni(II) ions, these copolymers are capable of selectively precipitating<br />

proteins with natural metal-binding groups or histidine-tagged recombinant proteins.<br />

Key Words: Metal chelate affinity precipitation; thermoresponsive copolymers;<br />

affinity macroligands; thermoprecipitation; bioseparation; recombinant histidine-tagged<br />

proteins.<br />

1. Introduction<br />

Development of efficient and fast purification protocols in bioseparation has<br />

always been a challenging task. With the rapid advancement of gene technology,<br />

it has been possible to get any desired protein product, but the recovery of such<br />

products still poses a major problem. Affinity techniques for protein purification<br />

provide means to purify a specific protein from a complex mixture.<br />

Many affinity-based systems have been developed in recent years for the rapid<br />

purification of recombinant proteins. The methods utilize specific interactions<br />

between an affinity tag (usually a short peptide with specific molecular recognition<br />

properties, such as polyhistidines (1–3), STREP tag (4), maltose-binding<br />

From: Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 421: Affinity Chromatography: Methods and Protocols, Second Edition<br />

Edited by: M. Zachariou © Humana Press, Totowa, NJ<br />

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