Evaluation and application of liquid chromatographic columns coated with "intelligent" ligands. (III). Immobilized phospholipid column.

Immobilized enzyme columns have been developed for use as high-performance liquid chromatographic enzyme reactors. Enzyme reactors were prepared by immobilizing trypsin or cytochrome-c on phospholipid columns. Dynamic coating was employed to prepare the reactors by recycling a buffer solution containing trypsin or cytochrome-c through a phospholipid-coated column, on which the enzymes were immobilized by hydrophobic binding. The immobilized trypsin column displayed hydrolytic activity which catalyzed the hydrolysis of L-amino acid esters to amino acid. The immobilized cytochrome-c column exhibited oxidation activity which catalyzed N-demethylation of N,N-dimethylaniline, codeine, and dihydrocodeine in the presence of hydrogen peroxide as an oxygenating agent. The enzyme reaction proceeded rapidly in the column; both product and substrate could be separated and detected simultaneously. The immobilized enzyme columns could be readily regenerated using the original phospholipid column by repeating the dynamic coating. These immobilized enzyme columns could be utilized as enzyme reactors in the high-performance liquid chromatographic mode. Complete hydrolysis of amino acid ester was observed with the trypsin column. Demethylation of codeine and of dihydrocodeine were observed with the cytochrome-c column.     

Membrane affinity chromatography for analysis and purification of biopolymers

Summary Affinity columns suitable for HPLC were prepared by immobilization of various ligands of protein A, human IgG, human IgM and pectinase on GMA modified cellulose membrane. The adsorption capacity, affinity efficiency and activity recovery of various IgGs on these affinity columns were measured. It was observed that the length of the coupling arm plays a very important role in affinity efficiency, and the effect of eluent flow-rate on adsorption capacity was very small. The protein A column was exploited for the process monitoring of dog IgG in clinical experiments on immuno-adsorption therapy. A pectinase column was used for the determination of polygalacturonase inhibiting proteins first purified on a hydroxyapatite column. It took only about 2.5 min for analysis at a flow-rate of 1.0 mL min⁻¹. The high speed analysis of biopolymers could be performed at a flow rate of 6.0 mL min⁻¹ within 15 s. Membrane affinity chromatography gives good reproducibility, high efficiency, low column-pressure and is rapid. It can also be used for micro-scale purification of biopolymers.     

Purification of guanosine triphosphate cyclohydrolase I from Escherichia coli. The use of competitive inhibitors versus substrate as ligands in affinity chromatography

Different affinity chromatography ligands have been compared for the purification of guanosine triphosphate (GTP) cyclohydrolase I, an enzyme that catalyses the transformation of GTP into formate and dihydroneopterin triphosphate, the first metabolite in the biosynthetic pathway of the pterins. When this enzyme is purified by affinity chromatography on GTP-Sepharose a major fraction of the activity is lost and the yield of enzyme decreases as the amount of enzyme applied to the column decreases. The use of nucleotide competitive inhibitors (UTP and ATP) as ligands in the affinity column has shown that the extent of inactivation of the enzyme is related to the affinity of the enzyme for the ligand. Further, the extent of inactivation was reduced by reducing the length of the columns when using the same volume of GTP-Sepharose. Dihydrofolate-Sepharose gave consistently higher yields of GTP cyclohydrolase I regardless of the amount of enzyme applied, but several other proteins were also obtained. For a high purification of GTP cyclohydrolase I the best yield may be obtained with UTP as the affinity ligand and with the shortest length possible of the affinity column, and the purity of enzyme is comparable with that obtained with GTP-Sepharose.     

纳米增强型毛细管酶柱用于葡萄糖液滴生物传感器的研究

葡萄糖的检测在临床医学以及食品工业等领域中十分重要.以往的检测方法主要包括化学发光法_{[1]、吸光光度法[2]、电化学法[3]和荧光法[4]等.固定化酶柱的制作是发展葡萄糖传感器的关键技术之一.传统的固定化方法主要是将具有生物活性的酶通过物理吸附、共价键合和交联的方法固定于载体基质上或包埋于有机聚合物的基质中.近期研究[5,6]表明,采用溶胶凝胶(Sol-gel)法将蛋白质和酶等生物活性物质包埋于无机陶瓷或玻璃材料内,保持生物组分的活性,且SiO2作为基质材料具有较好的坚固性、抗磨性、化学惰性以及高的光稳定性和透过性,但目前该法多用于电化学型生物传感器[7,8].本文利用纳米颗粒的比表面积大和吸附能力强等特点,将酶吸附在SiO2纳米颗粒表面,用易成膜的聚乙烯醇缩丁醛(PVB)作辅助基质在毛细管上固定酶,并采用分立式酶柱,克服了以往混合型酶柱普遍存在的酶促效率不高和使用寿命较短的局限性.所制得的酶柱具有表面反应活性高、表面活性中心多和催化效率高等特点.结合自行设计的液滴光化学传感装置[9,10],建立了一种高效、快速、微量的葡萄糖实时检测方法.}     

Automated signature peptide approach for proteomics

This paper addresses the issue of automating the multidimensional chromatographic, signature peptide approach to proteomics. Peptides were automatically reduced and alkylated in the autosampler of the instrument. Trypsin digestion of all proteins in the sample was then executed on an immobilized enzyme column and the digest directly transferred to an affinity chromatography column. Although a wide variety of affinity columns may be used, the specific column used in this case was a Ga(III) loaded immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC) column. Ga(III)-IMAC is known to select phosphorylated peptides. Phosphorylated peptides selected by the affinity column from tryptic digests of milk were automatically transferred to a reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) column. Further fractionation of tryptic peptides on the RPLC column was achieved with linear solvent gradient elution. Effluent from the RPLC column was electrosprayed into a time-of-flight mass spectrometer. The entire process was controlled by software in the liquid chromatograph. With slight modification, it is possible to add multiple columns in parallel at any of the single column positions to further increase throughput. Total analysis time in the tandem column mode of operation was under 2 h.     

High-performance catalytic chromatography. The adapter approach

A sequence-specific DNA that binds EcoRI endonuclease was immobilized on glycidioloxypropyl-silica and Sepharose by cyanogen bromide (CNBr)-activated coupling. Elution of bound enzyme by conventional affinity strategies (increase of salt concentration) or by catalysis-induced elution (adding a Mg2+ cofactor required for catalysis) was compared. Greater yield and fold-purification was obtained with catalysis-induced elution for both DNA-silica and DNA-Sepharose columns, and silica gives higher performance than Sepharose. Sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed primarily a single band for EcoRI endonuclease for catalysis-induced elution from DNA-silica columns. Since catalysis-induced elution decreases the lifetime of DNA affinity columns, an alternative approach for preparing re-usable DNA columns was also developed. In this approach, a single stranded adapter DNA sequence is first coupled to silica or Sepharose and then annealed with another DNA sequence that contains a complementary, single stranded tail and the duplex binding site for EcoRI endonuclease. After use, replacing the hydrolyzed DNA regenerates the column. For this adapter approach, Sepharose gives better purity than silica and comparable yields and catalytic based elution gave the highest purity and yield, regardless of support. Substrate DNA with either a tail (for annealing to the column) at one end or both ends were compared and the former gave higher purity. Finally, enzyme binding to the substrate in solution ("trapping") or on a pre-bound substrate column was compared and trapping gave higher yield and similar purity to the alternative. Thus, trapping with a single tailed substrate oligonucleotide on a Sepharose adapter column and using catalytic elution gave the highest performance.     

一种凝血酶亲和色谱介质的制备方法

对凝血酶-琼脂糖亲和色谱介质的制备方法进行了研究。首先使用凝血酶和溴化氰活化的琼脂糖制备凝血酶-琼脂糖亲和色谱介质,然后用生色底物法考察亲和色谱介质上凝血酶的活性,以凝血酶活性为指标对最佳偶联条件进行了优化。结果表明最佳条件为使用pH 8.3的Na₂CO₃-NaHCO₃溶液(含0.5 mol/L NaCl)为缓冲溶液,凝血酶用量为每1 g色谱介质加入凝血酶200 U,室温反应10 h。在最佳条件下所制备的色谱介质有较好的稳定性,在4℃条件下存放40天,亲和介质上的凝血酶活性仍有70.6%保留。该亲和色谱介质可广泛用于含凝血酶抑制剂的天然药物筛选和分离纯化。     

Optimal design of affinity membrane chromatographic columns

A method for the optimal affinity membrane column design, based in the solution of the Thomas kinetic model for frontal analysis in membrane column adsorption, is presented. The method permits to choose suitable membrane operating conditions, column dimensions and processing time, to maximize the throughput when an operating capacity restriction in the range of 80–95% of the column capacity is used. Two basic design charts were obtained by computer simulation, for residence and processing time calculation, respectively. These charts can be used and manipulated in a wide range of operational conditions, provided that four design specifications related to column axial and radial Peclet numbers, length and pressure drop, are fulfilled. The application of the method was illustrated using experimental data and a simple analytical procedure. The implications of the method and results on the design and optimization of affinity membrane chromatographic columns are discussed.     

High-performance affinity monolith chromatography for chiral separation and determination of enzyme kinetic constants

A new kind of immobilized human serum albumin (HSA) column was developed by using the sub-micron skeletal polymer monolith based on poly(glycidyl methacrylate-co-ethylene glycol dimethacrylate) [poly(GMA-EDMA)] as the support of high-performance affinity chromatography. Using the epoxide functional groups presented in GMA, the HSA immobilization procedure was performed by two different means. The affinity columns were successfully adopted for the chiral separation of d,l-amino acids (AAs). Then this method was shown to be applicable to the quantitative analysis of d-tryptophan, with a linear range between 12.0 μM and 979.0 μM, and a correlation coefficient above 0.99. Furthermore, it was used for the analysis of urine sample. This assay is demonstrated to be facile and relatively rapid. So it allows us to measure the enzyme catalytic activity in the incubation of d,l-AAs with d-AA oxidase and to study the kinetics of the enzyme reaction. It implied that the affinity monolithic columns can be a useful tool for studying DAAO enzyme reaction and investigating the potential enzyme mechanism requirement among chiral conversion.     

固定化金属离子亲和色谱法纯化猪铜锌超氧化物歧化酶

以Ｃｕ~（２＋）－Ｓｅｐｈａｒｏｓｅ４Ｂ固定化金属离子亲和色谱法纯化猪铜锌超氧化物歧化酶,考察了不同的洗脱缓冲溶液及其ｐＨ对纯化效率的影响,显示了方法的有效性。     

Principles of multienzyme purifications by affinity chromatography

Recently in our laboratory, up to 20 different enzymes and their genetic variants have been purified from mouse andDrosophila by affinity chromatography. By virtue of the specific coenzyme requirements, up to ten different enzymes could be copurified from a single tissue extract either by biospecific elutions with different coenzymes or inhibitors, or by sequential passages of the extract through several cofactor-related affinity columns. Important principles were developed to purify enzymes exhibiting low affinity to the affinity columns. By “affinity filtration” of the extract through the affinity column, enzymes of low affinity can be retarded and separated effectively from strongly bound and nonadsorbed proteins. By the “saturation readsorption” procedure, enzymes of low affinity could be effectively separated from those of high affinity by overloading of the extracts on the affinity columns. Readsorption of the leaked low affinity enzymes to a second affinity column often results in better enzyme purification because of the elimination of competitive high affinity enzymes. With the application of these principles, the following enzymes and their genetic variants were highly purified via a single- or two-step affinity column procedure: lactate dehydrogenase-A, lactate dehydrogenase-B, lactate dehydrogenase-X, phosphoglycerate kinase-A, phosphoglycerate kinase-B, cytoplasmic and mitochondrial isocitrate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase, malic enzyme, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, glutathione reductase, phosphoglucose isomerase and pyruvate kinase from mouse tissues; alcohol dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase, α-glycerol-phosphate dehydrogenase, malic enzyme, and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase fromDrosophila.     

Frontal affinity chromatography for the screening of mixtures

A protein stationary phase for frontal affinity chromatography was prepared, containing biotinylated beta-galactosidase immobilized to controlled pore glass beads via covalently bonded streptavidin. Single microaffinity columns of approximately 30 pmol of active beta-galactosidase were prepared from this material and characterized with a known ligand by frontal analysis. These columns were used to measure the specific interactions between the bound beta-galactosidase and a library of modified beta-galactopyranosides using electrospray mass spectrometry as the means of detection. The library contained 89 entries, each representing 4 diastereomers for a total of 356 library members. A single entry was analysed revealing differential activity among the 4 isomers. The library was grouped into 10 mixtures of 24-40 members each with each mixture infused under frontal chromatographic conditions. This deconvolution procedure led to the identification of 34 entries containing isomers with K(d) values better than 10 microM. A method based on a displacement principle was implemented as a rapid prescreen which served as the basis for a parallel column high throughput screening assay.     

Chromatography of microbial cells using continuous supermacroporous affinity and ion-exchange columns

Continuous supermacroporous chromatographic columns with anion-exchange ligands [2-(dimethylamino)ethyl group] and immobilized metal affinity (IMA) ligands (Cu2+-loaded iminodiacetic acid) have been developed allowing binding of Escherichia coli cells and the elution of bound cells with high recoveries. These poly(acrylamide)-based continuous supermacroporous columns have been produced by radical co-polymerization of monomers in aqueous solution frozen inside a column (cryo-polymerization). After thawing, the column contains a continuous matrix (so-called cryogel) with interconnected pores of 10-100 microm in size. The large pore size of the matrix makes it possible for E. coli cells to pass unhindered through a plain column containing no ligands. E. coli cells bound to an ion-exchange column at low ionic strength were eluted with 70-80% recovery at NaCl concentrations of 0.35-0.40 M, while cells bound to an IMA-column were eluted with around 80% recovery using either 10 mM imidazole or 20 mM EDTA solutions, respectively. The cells maintain their viability after the binding/elution procedure. These preliminary results indicate that microbial cells can be handled in a chromatographic mode using supermacroporous continuous columns. These columns are easy to manufacture from cheap and readily available starting materials, which make the columns suitable for single-time use.     

淀粉酶产色链霉菌TUST2中ε-聚赖氨酸降解酶的纯化和性质

分离得到产抗菌聚氨基酸--ε-聚赖氨酸菌株淀粉酶产色链霉菌TUST2,从中纯化了ε-聚赖氨酸降解酶,并对其性质进行了研究.结果表明,该酶为膜结合蛋白.为提取该降解酶,先收集菌体细胞并用超声波破碎,细胞膜部分用1.0 moL/L NaSCN溶液溶解.将粗酶液进行Sephadex G100凝胶柱层析分离.用100mmol/L磷酸缓冲液洗脱,收集活性部分.纯化后的样品用SDS-PAGE检测,酶亚基分子量约为54700.酶活力在pH=6.0～9.0间稳定,最适宜pH=7.0.酶的最适温度为30℃,在10～50℃水浴30 min酶活力未见明显下降.研究了不同金属离子对酶活力的影响,结果表明,Zn~(2+),Cu~(2+)和Fe_(3+)可分别提高酶活力29.72%,15.85%和15.08%;但Ag~(+),Hg~(2+),Co~(2+)和Mn~(2+)对酶活力有强烈的抑制作用.Ca2~(2+),K~+和Ba~(2+)对酶活力没有影响.添加4%Tween-80能提高酶活力10%,但EDTA能强烈抑制酶活力.研究结果表明,此降解酶的性质与白色链霉菌产生的ε-聚赖氨酸降解酶的性质相似.     

Macroporous monolithic poly(4‐vinylbenzyl chloride) columns for organic synthesis facilitation by in situ polymerization of high internal phase emulsions

PolyHIPE materials are produced by polymerizing the continuous phase of emulsions where the internal phase volume fraction is higher than 74%. Columns of flow‐through supports for immobilized scavengers and reagents were prepared by polymerizing the continuous phase of high internal phase emulsions containing 4‐vinylbenzyl chloride and divinylbenzene. Emulsions were placed in containers and polymerized in situ. Highly porous (80% pore volume) monolithic columns with chloromethyl functionalities and crosslinked with divinylbenzene (6% or 40%) were obtained and functionalized by a flow‐through method, immobilizing tris(2‐aminoethyl)amine, diethanolamine, and 4‐bromophenylboronic acid. Columns with immobilized tris(2‐aminoethyl)amine were applied for the effective removal of acid chlorides from the solution pumped through the column. Flow properties (back pressure versus flow rate) were characterized for dichloromethane, N,N‐dimethylformamide and acetonitrile. High effectiveness of columns were demonstrated by an over 90% of acid chloride removal from the solution after a single pass‐flow of the solution through the column. The morphology of the column material was characterized by scanning electron microscopy and showed no damage of the material after the flow‐through utilization. Good permeative properties of the interconnected porous structure make polyHIPE columns good candidates for supports for reagents and catalysts. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 47: 6726–6734, 2009     

In flow activation of diol-silica with cyanogen bromide and triethylamine for preparing high-performance affinity chromatographic columns

A new coupling strategy using pre-packed diol-silica supports to obtain affinity columns for high-performance affinity chromatography (HPAC) is described. These columns were prepared by "in flow" activation in which solutions containing anhydrous solutions of CNBr and triethylamine are separately pumped to a mixer and then onto a pre-packed diol-silica column. Recycling the amino ligand to be coupled several times over the activated silica diol columns results in ligand immobilization. DNA (the Op 1 lac operator), 6-aminohexyl-Cibacron and a peptide (melittin) were all successfully "in flow" coupled to freshly activated columns. Methods for CNBr activation of pre-packed diol-silica column were developed for one, two or three pump HPLC systems. The supports were successfully used for the HPAC purification of a Lac repressor-beta-galactosidase fusion protein, alcohol dehydrogenase, and calmodulin. Columns prepared by in flow activation/coupling procedures were shown to be stable for at least 14 months. Also, in flow activated silica columns could be stored in anhydrous acetone for at least 3 months prior to coupling. Our experiments with these affinity ligand columns (DNA-silica, aminohexyl-Cibacron F3GA-silica, and melittin-silica), suggests that this is a very successful coupling protocol for producing a variety of HPAC columns.     

Thermoresponsive polymer brush on monolithic-silica-rod for the high-speed separation of bioactive compounds

Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), one of the most utilized thermoresponsive polymers, brush-grafted monolithic-silica columns were prepared through surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) for effective thermoresponsive-chromatography matrices. ATRP initiator was grafted on monolithic silica-rod surfaces by flowing a toluene solution containing ATRP initiator into monolithic silica-rod columns. N-Isopropylacrylamide (IPAAm) monomer and CuCl/CuCl(2)/Me(6)TREN, an ATRP catalytic system, were dissolved in 2-propanol, and the reaction solution was pumped into the preprepared initiator-modified columns at 25 °C for 16 h. The constructed PIPAAm-brush structure on the monolithic silica-rod surface was confirmed by XPS, elemental analysis, SEM observation, and GPC measurement of grafted PIPAAm. The prepared monolithic silica-rod columns were also characterized by chromatographic analysis. PIPAAm-brush-modified monolithic silica-rod columns were able to separate hydrophobic steroids with a short analysis time (10 min), compared to PIPAAm-brush-modified silica-beads-packed columns, because of the horizontally limited diffusion path length of monolithic supporting materials. Additionally, diluted PIPAAm-brush monolithic silica-rod column gave a further shorting analysis time (5 min). These results indicated (1) surface-initiated ATRP constructed PIPAAm-brush structures on monolithic silica-rod surfaces and (2) PIPAAm-brush grafted monolithic silica-rod column prepared by ATRP was a promising tool for analyzing hydrophobic-bioactive compounds with a short analysis time.     

三步柱色谱法从江浙蝮蛇蛇毒中分离纯化类凝血酶

建立了一种用CM Sepharose CL-6B阳离子交换、DEAE Sepharose Fast Flow阴离子交换和Sephadex G-75凝胶排阻三步柱色谱从江浙蝮蛇蛇毒中分离纯化类凝血酶的方法。在实验室小柱分离方案的基础上,对该纯化工艺进行了放大。当上样量达实验室小柱的25倍时,所得类凝血酶的质量指标与实验室小柱基本一致。采用该法所得的蝮蛇类凝血酶经Shim-pack Diol-300高效凝胶排阻柱测得其相对分子质量约为33500,用Shim-pack VP-ODS反相色谱柱检测其纯度约为96%。从江浙粗蛇毒中提取类凝血酶时,类凝血酶的总质量收率约为0.3%,总活性收率约为64%,比活可达2000 U/mg。     

Purification of Plasma-Derived Coagulation Factor VIII by Immobilized-Zn<Superscript>2+</Superscript> and -Co<Superscript>2+</Superscript> Affinity Chromatography

Coagulation factor VIII (FVIII) is a glycoprotein that plays a crucial role in the clotting cascade. Replacement therapies with recombinant and plasma-derived concentrates of FVIII are used for treatment of hemophilia A. We have previously purified the human plasma FVIII by immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC) using Cu²⁺ as the metal ligand. In this work we report the purification of FVIII using Zn²⁺ and Co²⁺, two metal ions that bind proteins more weakly. Human plasma was directly applied to the anion-exchange ANX Sepharose FF column and the eluate was used as starting material for the studies in IMAC columns. Using imidazole as desorbing agent, FVIII was recovered with 65% activity in the IMAC-Zn²⁺ column and with 74% activity in the IMAC-Co²⁺ column. Purification factors were 4 and 9, respectively. Using a pH gradient, FVIII was eluted at pH 5.0 with 17% activity in the IMAC-Zn²⁺ and 77% activity in the IMAC-Co²⁺. Vitamin K-dependent proteins, a family of proteins that includes Prothrombin and coagulation factor IX, coeluted with FVIII in the ANX Sepharose FF column and were recovered with the unbound proteins on both IMAC columns. Therefore, Co²⁺ and Zn²⁺ columns were as effective as the Cu²⁺ column in separating FVIII from vitamin K-dependent proteins. Finally, we have shown that FVIII remained complexed with the von Willebrand factor.     

Non-specific binding in the affinity chromatography of chymotrypsin

The strong and specific binding of chymotrypsin on chromatographic columns containing agarose substituted with N--amino Caproyl- -tryptophan methyl ester is abolished when the -amino groups on the surface of the enzyme are reacted with acetic anhydride. Because the catalytic properties of the acetylated chymotrypsin are identical to those of the underivatized enzyme, it is concluded that the high affinity of chymotrypsin for this column is not due solely to biospecific inhibitor binding, which is by itself very weak, but requires reinforcement through weak non-specific interactions with the column support. It is postulated that these non-specific interactions include electrostatic interactions between agarose matrix and positively charged lysyl residues on the enzyme. The results demonstrate for the first time that residues on the surface of an enzyme not associated with its active site can play an important role in some chromatographic systems previously thought to be based on purely biospecific interactions.