A novel protein refolding method integrating ion exchange chromatography with artificial molecular chaperone

Artificial molecular chaperone (AMC) and ion exchange chromatography (IEC) were integrated, thus a new refolding method,artificial molecular chaperone-ion exchange chromatography (AMC-IEC) was developed. Compared with AMC and IEC, theactivity recovery of lysozyme obtained by AMC-IEC was much higher in the investigated range of initial protein concentrations,and the results show that AMC-IEC is very efficient for protein refolding at high concentrations. When the initial concentration oflysozyme is 180 mg/mL, its activity recovery obtained by AMC-IEC is still as high as 76.6%, while the activity recoveries obtainedby AMC and IEC are 45.6% and 42.4%, respectively.2008 Chao Zhan Wang. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Chinese Chemical Society. All rights reserved.