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Remove salts from proteins with molecular weight M r > 5 000.<br />

Use 100 mM ammonium acetate or 100 mM ammonium hydrogen carbonate if volatile<br />

buffers are required.<br />

Specific sample preparation steps<br />

Specific sample preparation steps may be required if the crude sample is known to contain<br />

contamininants such as lipids, lipoproteins or phenol red that may build up on a column or<br />

if certain gross impurities, such as bulk protein, should be removed before any chromatographic<br />

step.<br />

Fractional precipitation<br />

Fractional precipitation is frequently used at laboratory scale to remove gross impurities<br />

from small sample volumes, <strong>and</strong> occasionally used in small-scale commercial production.<br />

Precipitation techniques separate fractions by the principle <strong>of</strong> differential solubility. Because<br />

protein species differ in their degree <strong>of</strong> hydrophobicity, increased salt concentrations can<br />

enhance hydrophobic interactions between the proteins <strong>and</strong> cause precipitation. Fractional<br />

precipitation can be applied to remove gross impurities in three different ways, as shown in<br />

Figure 74.<br />

Clarification<br />

Bulk proteins <strong>and</strong><br />

particulate matter<br />

precipitated<br />

Supernatant<br />

Extraction Clarification<br />

Concentration<br />

Target protein precipitated<br />

with proteins <strong>of</strong> similar<br />

solubility<br />

Extraction Clarification<br />

Bulk proteins <strong>and</strong><br />

particulate matter<br />

precipitated<br />

Concentration<br />

Target protein<br />

precipitated<br />

with proteins<br />

<strong>of</strong> similar<br />

solubility<br />

Redissolve<br />

pellet*<br />

<strong>Chromatography</strong><br />

Remember: if precipitating agent is<br />

incompatible with next purification step,<br />

TM<br />

use Sephadex G-25 for desalting <strong>and</strong><br />

buffer exchange e.g. HiTrap Desalting<br />

or PD-10 columns<br />

Redissolve<br />

pellet*<br />

*Remember: not all proteins are easy<br />

to redissolve, yield may be reduced<br />

Fig. 74. Three ways to use precipitation.<br />

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