751 results about "Protein purification" patented technology

A method for purifying a polypeptide by ion exchange chromatography is described which involves changing the conductivity and / or pH of buffers in order to resolve a polypeptide of interest from one or more contaminants.

The present invention relates to a method for protein purification that involves the combination of non-affinity chromatography with HPTFF.

The present invention relates to a method of preparing a porous cross-linked polysaccharide chromatography matrix, which comprises to provide an aqueous solution of a gellable polysaccharide, wherein part of the hydroxyl groups are substituted with groups which are not susceptible to nucleophilic attack; to provide essentially spherical droplets of the substituted polysaccharide solution; to form a gel of the substituted polysaccharide solution; and to cross-link the gel by adding a cross-linking agent. The invention also encompasses a chromatography column packed with a matrix so produced as well as use thereof in e.g. protein purification.

The instant invention relates to the field of protein production and purification, and in particular to compositions and processes for controlling the amount of charge variants, aggregates, and fragments of a protein of interest, as well as host cell proteins, present in purified preparations by applying particular chromatography conditions during such protein purification.

A method for purifying a polypeptide by ion exchange chromatography is described which involves changing the conductivity and / or pH of buffers in order to resolve a polypeptide of interest from one or more contaminants.

The instant invention relates to low acidic species (AR) compositions comprising a protein, e.g., an antibody, or antigen-binding portion thereof, and methods, e.g., cell culture and / or protein purification methods, for producing such low AR compositions. Methods for using such compositions to treat a disorder, e.g., a disorder in which TNFα is detrimental, are also provided.

A self-cleaving element for use in bioseparations has been derived from a naturally occurring, 43 kDa protein splicing element (intein) through a combination of protein engineering and random mutagenesis. A mini-intein (18 kDa) previously engineered for reduced size had compromised activity and was therefore subjected to random mutagenesis and genetic selection. In one selection a mini-intein was isolated with restored splicing activity, while in another, a mutant was isolated with enhanced, pH-sensitive C-terminal cleavage activity. The enhanced cleavage mutant has utility in affinity fusion-based protein purification. The enhanced splicing mutant has utility in purification of proteins such as toxic proteins, for example, by inactivation with the intein in a specific region and controllable splicing. These mutants also provide new insights into the structural and functional roles of some conserved residues in protein splicing. Thus, disclosed and claimed are: a genetic system and self-cleaving inteins therefrom; bioseparations employing same; protein purification by inactivation with inteins in specific regions and controllable intein splicing; methods for determining critical, generalizable residues for varying intein activity; and products.

The present invention relates, at least in part, to improved methods of protein purification. In particular, the present invention relates, at least in part, to methods for purifying an Fc region containing protein from a composition comprising the Fc region containing protein and one or more impurities, where the methods eliminate the need for a holding tank and / or a buffer exchange step.

A method for purifying a polypeptide by ion exchange chromatography is described in which a gradient wash is used to resolve a polypeptide of interest from one or more contaminants.

A method for purifying a polypeptide by ion exchange chromatography is described in which a gradient wash is used to resolve a polypeptide of interest from one or more contaminants.

A method for purifying proteins by Protein A chromatography is described which comprises removing contaminants by washing the solid phase with various intermediate wash buffers.

The present invention relates generally to the production of recombinant human uteroglobin (rhUG) for use as a therapeutic in the treatment of inflammation and fibrotic diseases. More particularly, the invention provides processes, including broadly the steps of bacterial expression and protein purification, for the scaled-up production of rhUG according to current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP). The invention further provides analytical assays for evaluating the relative strength of in vivo biological activity of rhUG produced via the scaled-up cGMP processes.

An object of the present invention is to provide a novel protein having the following amino acid sequence altered for specifically and efficiently binding a protein to an immobilization carrier via the carboxy terminus. The protein is used for immobilizing a portion represented by R1-R2 on an immobilization carrier, comprising the amino acid sequence represented by the general formula R1-R2-R3-R4-R5 [wherein:the sequences are oriented from the amino terminal side to the carboxy terminal side;the sequence of the R1 portion is the sequence of a subject protein to be immobilized and contains neither a lysine residue nor a cysteine residue;the sequence of the R2 portion may be absent, but when the sequence of the R2 portion is present, the sequence of the R2 portion is a spacer sequence composed of amino acid residues other than lysine and cysteine residues;the sequence of the R3 portion is composed of two residues of amino acid represented by cysteine-X (where X denotes an amino acid residue other than lysine or cysteine);the sequence of the R4 portion may be absent, but when the sequence of the R4 portion is present, the sequence of the R4 portion contains neither a lysine residue nor a cysteine residue, but contains an acidic amino acid residue capable of acidifying the isoelectric point of the entire protein comprising the amino acid sequence represented by the general formula R1-R2-R3-R4-R5; andthe sequence of an R5 portion is an affinity tag sequence for protein purification.

Methods of reducing high molecular weight species (HMW) formation in a sample containing a protein purified using ion exchange (IEX) chromatography are disclosed, as are a number of related methods, e.g., methods of reducing on-column denaturation of a protein in a protein sample purified using an ion exchange (IEX) column or resin. The methods share characteristics of including arginine, glycine and / or histidine in the buffers used during the ion exchange (IEX) chromatography.

The instant invention relates to modulated lysine variant species compositions comprising a protein, e.g., an antibody, or antigen-binding portion thereof, and methods, e.g., cell culture and / or protein purification methods, for producing such modulated lysine variant species compositions. Methods for using such compositions to treat a disorder, e.g., a disorder in which TNFα is detrimental, are also provided.

The present invention provides novel and improved protein purification processes which incorporate certain types of carbonaceous materials and result in effective and selective removal of certain undesirable impurities without adversely effecting the yield of the desired protein product.

Purification of recombinant proteins is performed by expressing in a host cell a fusion protein comprising: (a) a product protein domain, (b) an intein, and (c) at least one aggregator protein domain, wherein the aggregator protein domain comprises a protein that is capable of specific association with granules of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA).

The invention relates to methods for isolating a product and / or reducing turbidity and / or impurities from a load fluid comprising the product and one or more impurities by passing the load fluid through a medium, followed by at least one wash solution comprising an arginine derivative, and collecting the product using an elution solution. The invention further relates to a product prepared using a method as described herein.

Methods are provided in this invention for the isolation of human growth hormone, growth hormone antagonist, or a homologue of either, from a biological source. The methods of the invention use multi-phase extraction.

This invention discloses one EPSPS gene enzyme immune agent case and its use method in the anti-herbicide bean, wherein, the case comprises anti-EPSPS multi-clone antigen, enzyme board with the antigen, enzyme antigens for two, gene switch bean standard product, non-transfer gene bean standard, intense wash liquid, develop liquid and terminal liquid. This invention method comprises the following steps: cloning CP4-EPSPS gene from the gene switch bean expressed in the bacillus coli; then through protein purification complex property to regroup EPSPS protein antibody immune animal to get special single clone antigen and multi-clone antigen; establishing double antigen clamp enzyme immune system test sample to determine its EPSPS protein content.

The invention provides methods for a purifying protein of interest from a mixture comprising the protein of interest and one or more contaminants, including host cell DNA and proteins, by precipitation of the contaminants with caprylic acid. Such methods are particularly useful for purifying antibodies from cell cultures. Moreover, mixtures that have been depleted of contaminants using the methods of the invention can be used directly in downstream chromatography applications (e.g., ion exchange chromatography) without any further purification. These methods lead to manufacturing processes with a minimum number of unit operations and reduce the resource requirements, and thus positively influence the cost of goods for therapeutic protein production.

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to multi-step systems and methods for target-molecule purification that employ column-chromatography-based and / or membrane-filtration-based polishing steps. In one described embodiment of the present invention, a target-protein-containing eluate having a high residual salt concentration is collected from a first chromatography column prepared with an affinity-chromatography resin, loaded onto a second chromatography column prepared with a cation-exchange resin, and eluted from the second cation-exchange column using a buffer in which a time-dependent pH gradient is established. In another described embodiment of the present invention, a partially purified target-protein-containing eluate is collected from a chromatography column and further purified by passing the target-protein-containing eluate through a salt-tolerant anion exchanger.

A method for removing contaminant DNA in a sample containing a physiologically active protein, which comprises the following steps:1) converting the sample containing a physiologically active protein into a neutral aqueous solution of low conductivity; and2) removing the resulting particles.

The instant invention relates to low acidic species (AR) compositions comprising a protein, e.g., an antibody, or antigen-binding portion thereof, and methods, e.g., cell culture and / or protein purification methods, for producing such low AR compositions. Methods for using such compositions to treat a disorder, e.g., a disorder in which TNFα is detrimental, are also provided.

Provided is a plant derived extract including inhibitory activity against one or more extracellular proteases which degrade human tissue matrix. Moreover, the amount of inhibitory activity in an extract can be increased by stressing the plant prior to forming an extract. These extracts are each prepared by a process and demonstrate the ability to inhibit one or more extracellular proteases which degrade human tissue matrix. Libraries of extracts can be prepared from stressed and non-stressed plants, where each of the extracts demonstrate inhibitory activity against on or more extracellular protease inhibitors. Alternatively, semi-purified and purified inhibitory compounds can be isolated from the extracts. In one aspect, these extracts with inhibitory activity can be used during protein purification to minimize degradation due to extracellular proteases.

The invention provides a method for purifying protein of enzyme aggregate based on self-aggregation short-peptide induction. The method comprises the following steps of: fusing and expressing a target protein, a peptide section (preferably intein) containing a cleavage site and a short peptide with self-aggregation function into a triplet in a sequence from left to right or from right to left, forming an enzyme aggregate in an expressing process, and separating from most soluble impurities in cell lysate by adopting a centrifuging or filtering method; and then releasing the target protein into solution by inducing cutting at a cleavage site so as to achieve the purpose of purification. The method has the characteristics of low cost and simple flow, can be used for laboratory-scale high-throughput protein purification and is also beneficial to industrial-scale protein production.

The invention is directed to a method for producing a polypeptide composition comprising: combining a polypeptide with a volatile additive to form a liquid mixture and lyophilizing the liquid mixture to obtain a lyophilized polypeptide composition.

The present invention provides methods for purifying proteins. In particular, the methods employ a two-step non-affinity chromatography process without the use of an in-process tangential flow filtration step.