纯化基因重组白细胞介素-2的初步研究

 采用羟基磷灰石 (HAP)作为填料 ,以pH 6 8的磷酸盐缓冲液为流动相 ,用制备型高效液相色谱来分离提纯基因重组白细胞介素 2 (IL 2 ) ,通过SDS 聚丙烯酰胺凝胶 (SDS PAGE)电泳测定IL 2的纯度 ,测定其活性为1× 1 0 6 U/mg。该法对IL 2的纯化、含量测定及活性测定等效果良好。

Preliminary Study on the Purification of IL-2

Interleukin-2 (IL-2) which is produced by T-lymphocytes is a protein molecule with the molecular weight of 15,420-Daltons. It has good functions in curing a lot of diseases such as cancer and AIDS even with a small quantity. A new method for purification of IL-2 by preparative high performance liquid chromatography is described. It was the first time to use hydroxyapatite as the packing to separate IL-2. IL-2 has one disulphide bridge (between 58th Cys and 105th Cys) and one free cysteine. In order to prevent aggregation and formation of wrong disulphide bond, 50 mumol/L Cu2+ and 1.5 mol/L guanidine hydrochloride was used for autoxidation and denaturing. Then we used mainly two chromatographic steps: First, Sephadex G-25 Gel permeation chromatography was used to separate guanidine hydrochloride and small molecules. Second, large scale preparative HPLC was used to separate impure protein from IL-2. Gradient elution was performed with phosphate buffer (pH 6.8). Its purity was examined by SDS-PAGE. Its activity reached 1 x 10(6) U/mg by CTLL-2 cell MTT method. The results showed that it is a suitable method for the large-scale purification of IL-2.