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Table 8 Ion-exchange chromatography (IEX) in proinsulin (PI) and insulin purification

From: Downstream processing of recombinant human insulin and its analogues production from E. coli inclusion bodies

Protein

AEX/CEX

Media

Comments

References

Folded preproinsulin

AEX

DEAE-Sepharose fast flow/ Source 30 Q

Flow-through mode at pH 8.3, 6.1 mS/cm, in which the preproinsulin was not bound to the gel but washed through the column with the permeate

The higher molecular weight impurities were adsorbed

Thurow et al. (2010)

Folded preproinsulin

CEX

Source 30 S

Elution with linearly increasing NaCl gradient

Thurow et al. (2010)

Refolded PI

AEX

Q-Sepharose Fast Flow

Equilibration with 20 mM glycine–NaOH, pH 10.0

NaCl elution in 20 mM glycine–NaOH, pH 10.0

Chen et al. (2016)

Sulfonated PI

AEX

DEAP-Spheronit

NaCl elution in 7.5 M urea

Yield: 95%

Purity: 70–95% (order of chromatography affects purity)

Tikhonov et al. (2001)

Sulfonated PI

AEX

Mono-Q HR

Binding and elution buffers contain 7 M urea

NaCl elution

Cowley and Mackin (1997)

Sulfonated PI

AEX

Q-Sepharose Fast Flow

NaCl elution in 8 M urea

Castellanos-Serra et al. (1996)

Sulfonated PI

CEX

S-Sepharose

Eluted at a rate of 3 mL/min using a linear gradient of 0.5 M NaCl in 7 M urea/20 mM formic acid buffer (pH 4.0) for 50 min

Redwan et al. (2007)

Sulfonated PI

CEX

SP Sepharose Fast Flow

NaCl elution

Yield: 90%

Petrides et al. (1995)

Insulin

AEX

DEAE

Purification after citraconylation and trypsin digestion step

Mikiewicz et al. (2017)

Insulin

AEX

DEAE-Sepharose

Purification after citraconylation and trypsin digestion step

Elution with Tris pH 8.6 and 30% isopropanol (conductivity 6 mS)

Zieliński et al. (2019)

Insulin

AEX

Q

Purification after citraconylation and trypsin digestion step

Mikiewicz et al. (2017)

Insulin

AEX

Q-Sepharose

Elution with Tris pH 8.6 and 30% isopropanol (conductivity 3 mS)

Zieliński et al. (2019)

Insulin

AEX

Source 30Q

The load is in 30% ethanol, pH 7.5, < 3 mS/cm and contains Zn-ions in an amount of 2 zinc atoms per six insulin molecules

Elution with ammonium acetate, ethanol, triethanolamine at pH 6.4, 6.8 and 7.2

At pH 6.4, the peak is fronting (flat front and steep tail), and a baseline separation is seen between the impurity and the product peak

Yield: > 90%

Mollerup and Frederiksen (2016)

Insulin

CEX

BioSepra CM

Loading diluent and elution solution contain hexylene glycol

2 washes with NaCl

Isocratic elution with NaCl

Yield: 60–85%; Purity: > 90%

Coleman et al. (2019)

Insulin

CEX

Capto SP ImpRes

Subsequent purification after enzymatic conversion

Binding buffer: Na acetate buffer pH 4, 10% ethanol

Elution with 47.5% ethanol and 128 mM NaCl

Yield: 102%; Purity: 63–94%

GE application note 29–0018-56 AB

Insulin

CEX

SP Sepharose Fast Flow

Capture of glargine insulin

NaCl elution

Hwang et al. (2016)

Insulin

NA

NA

NaCl elution

Yield: 95%

Petrides et al. (1995)

  1. NA information not available