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Zhang X, Liu J, Zhang H, Zhang Q, Shen J, Wei Y, Wang C. Facile construction of a stable core-shell spherically magnetic polyimide covalent organic framework for efficient extraction of phenylurea herbicides. Talanta 2024; 275:126184. [PMID: 38703485 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2024.126184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2024] [Revised: 04/23/2024] [Accepted: 04/27/2024] [Indexed: 05/06/2024]
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Efficient enrichment is crucial for the highly sensitive monitoring of phenylurea herbicides (PUHs) in various environmental waters. In this work, a stable core-shell spherically magnetic polyimide covalent organic framework (COF) was synthesized via a simple template-mediated precipitation polymerization method under mild conditions using tri(4-aminophenyl)amine (TAPA) and 3,3',4,4'-biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride (BPDA) as the building units (denoted as Fe3O4@TAPA-BPDA). The Fe3O4@TAPA-BPDA exhibits remarkable adsorption performance for PUHs with an optimized adsorption time of only 10 min. The adsorption of PUHs by Fe3O4@TAPA-BPDA followed the pseudo-second-order kinetic model and the Langmuir model. Furthermore, hydrogen bonding, halogen bonding, hydrophobic interaction, electro donor-acceptor interaction and π-π interactions are identified as the dominant mechanisms contributing to excellent adsorption performance. It was demonstrated that halogen bonds play an important role in the adsorption of substances containing chlorine atoms. The Fe3O4@TAPA-BPDA is easy to operate and highly regenerable. A simple magnetic solid-phase extraction (MSPE) method based on the Fe3O4@TAPA-BPDA was then developed for the rapid extraction of five PUHs in real samples, coupled with high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) determination. The analytical method developed has a linear range of 0.5-50 ng/mL, and the limit of detection (LOD) ranges from 0.06 to 0.10 ng/mL. The method exhibits good accuracy with recoveries ranged from 74.5 % to 111.4 %. The analytical method was successfully applied to the highly sensitive detection of PUHs in environmental water samples, which highlighting the potential application of the Fe3O4@TAPA-BPDA in the sample pretreatment.
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- Xiaoxia Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710127, China
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- School of Information Science and Technology, Northwest University, Xi'an, 71027, China
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- School of Information Science and Technology, Northwest University, Xi'an, 71027, China
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- Shaanxi Environmental Monitoring Centre, Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Environmental Monitoring and Forewarning of Trace Pollutants, Xi'an, 710054, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710127, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710127, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710127, China.
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Bezerra de Araujo CM, Rios AG, Ghislandi MG, Ferreira AFP, Alves da Motta Sobrinho M, Rodrigues AE. Separation of the heme protein cytochrome C using a 3D structured graphene oxide bionanocomposite as an adsorbent. SOFT MATTER 2024; 20:1475-1485. [PMID: 38263875 DOI: 10.1039/d3sm01053h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2024]
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Proteins are of great importance for medicine and the pharmaceutical and food industries. However, proteins need to be purified prior to their application. This work investigated the application of a hydrogel bionanocomposite based on agar and graphene oxide (GO) for capturing cytochrome C (Cyto C) heme protein by adsorption from aqueous solutions with other proteins. Although applications of GO-based materials in adsorption are widely studied, the focus on semi-continuous processes remains limited. Adsorption experiments were carried out in batch and fixed bed columns. The effect of pH and ionic strength on adsorption was investigated, and there is evidence that electrostatic interactions between Cyto C and the nanocomposite were favoured at pH = 7; the adsorption capacity decreased as NaCl and KCl concentrations increased, ascribed to the weak electrostatic interaction between the protein and GO active sites in the bionanocomposite. All adsorption isotherm models (Langmuir, Freundlich, Sips) used gave suitable adjustments to the equilibrium experimental data and the kinetic models applied. The maximum adsorption capacity predicted by the Langmuir isotherm was ∼400 mgCytoC gadsorbent,dry-1, and the adsorption thermodynamics indicated a physisorption process. Tests were performed to evaluate the co-adsorption in batch, and the composite was effective in adsorbing Cyto C in solution with bovine serum albumin (BSA) and L-phenylalanine. Fixed bed tests were performed, and although protein adsorption onto nanoparticles can be challenging, the Cyto C adsorbed could be successfully recovered after desorption. Overall, the GO-based hydrogel was an effective method for cytochrome C adsorption, exhibiting a notorious potential for applications in protein separation processes.
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- Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, s/n, R. Dr Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal.
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- Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, R. Cento e Sessenta e Três, 300, Cabo de Santo Agostinho, PE, Brazil
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- Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, s/n, R. Dr Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal.
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A New Approach for Increasing Speed, Loading Capacity, Resolution, and Scalability of Preparative Size-Exclusion Chromatography of Proteins. Processes (Basel) 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/pr10122566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Low speed, low capacity, and poor scalability make size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) unattractive for use in the preparative separation of proteins. We discuss a novel z2 cuboid SEC device that addresses these challenges. A z2 cuboid SEC device (~24 mL volume) was systematically compared with a conventional SEC column having the same volume and packed with the same resin. The primary objective of this study was to use the same volume of SEC medium in a much more efficient way by using the novel device. At any given flow rate, the pressure drop across the z2 cuboid SEC device was lower by a factor of 6 to 8 due to its shorter bed height and greater cross-sectional area. Under overloaded conditions, the peaks obtained during protein separation with the conventional column were poorly resolved and showed significant fronting, while those obtained with the z2 cuboid SEC device were much better resolved and showed no fronting. At any given flow rate, better resolution was obtained with the z2 cuboid SEC device, while for obtaining a comparable resolution, the flow rate that could be used with the z2 cuboid SEC device was higher by a factor of 2 to 3. Hence, productivity in SEC could easily be increased by 200 to 300% using the z2 cuboid SEC device. The scalability of the z2 cuboid SEC device was also demonstrated based on a device with a 200 mL bed volume.
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Gago D, Corvo MC, Chagas R, Ferreira LM, Coelhoso I. Protein Adsorption Performance of a Novel Functionalized Cellulose-Based Polymer. Polymers (Basel) 2022; 14:polym14235122. [PMID: 36501515 PMCID: PMC9736165 DOI: 10.3390/polym14235122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2022] [Revised: 11/10/2022] [Accepted: 11/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Dicarboxymethyl cellulose (DCMC) was synthesized and tested for protein adsorption. The prepared polymer was characterized by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES), attenuated total reflection Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) to confirm the functionalization of cellulose. This work shows that protein adsorption onto DCMC is charge dependent. The polymer adsorbs positively charged proteins, cytochrome C and lysozyme, with adsorption capacities of 851 and 571 mg g-1, respectively. In both experiments, the adsorption process follows the Langmuir adsorption isotherm. The adsorption kinetics by DCMC is well described by the pseudo second-order model, and adsorption equilibrium was reached within 90 min. Moreover, DCMC was successfully reused for five consecutive adsorption-desorption cycles, without compromising the removal efficiency (98-99%).
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- Diana Gago
- LAQV-REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- i3N/Cenimat, Materials Science Department, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- LAQV-REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
- Food4Sustainability—Associação para a Inovação no Alimento Sustentável, Centro Empresarial de Idanha-a-Nova, Zona Industrial, 6060-182 Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
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- LAQV-REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- LAQV-REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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Dong Y, Laaksonen A, Gong M, An R, Ji X. Selective Separation of Highly Similar Proteins on Ionic Liquid-Loaded Mesoporous TiO 2. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2022; 38:3202-3211. [PMID: 35253426 PMCID: PMC8928471 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c03277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2021] [Revised: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Separating proteins from their mixtures is an important process in a great variety of applications, but it faces difficult challenges as soon as the proteins are simultaneously of similar sizes and carry comparable net charges. To develop both efficient and sustainable strategies for the selective separation of similar proteins and to understand the underlying molecular mechanisms to enable the separation are crucial. In this work, we propose a novel strategy where the cholinium-based amino acid [Cho][Pro] ionic liquid (IL) is used as the trace additive and loaded physically on a mesoporous TiO2 surface for separating two similar proteins (lysozyme and cytochrome c). The observed selective adsorption behavior is explained by the hydration properties of the [Cho][Pro] loaded on the TiO2 surface and their partially dissociated ions under different pH conditions. As the pH is increased from 5.0 to 9.8, the degree of hydration of IL ions also increases, gradually weakening the interaction strength of the proteins with the substrates, more for lysozymes, leading to their effective separation. These findings were further used to guide the detection of the retention behavior of a binary mixture of proteins in high-performance liquid chromatography, where the introduction of ILs did effectively separate the two similar proteins. Our results should further stimulate the use of ILs in the separation of proteins with a high degree of mutual similarity.
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- Yihui Dong
- Department
of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Energy
Engineering, Division of Energy Science, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå 97187, Sweden
- Department
of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE-10691, Sweden
- Center
of Advanced Research in Bionanoconjugates and Biopolymers, “Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular
Chemistry, Iasi 700469, Romania
- State Key
Laboratory of Materials-Oriented and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
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- Herbert
Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience, Department of Materials Science
and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science
and Technology, Nanjing 210094, P.R. China
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- Herbert
Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience, Department of Materials Science
and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science
and Technology, Nanjing 210094, P.R. China
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- Energy
Engineering, Division of Energy Science, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå 97187, Sweden
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SBA-15 with Crystalline Walls Produced via Thermal Treatment with the Alkali and Alkali Earth Metal Ions. MATERIALS 2021; 14:ma14185270. [PMID: 34576497 PMCID: PMC8466871 DOI: 10.3390/ma14185270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2021] [Revised: 09/04/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Crystalline walled SBA-15 with large pore size were prepared using alkali and alkali earth metal ions (Na+, Li+, K+ and Ca2+). For this work, the ratios of alkali metal ions (Si/metal ion) ranged from 2.1 to 80, while the temperatures tested ranged from 500 to 700 °C. The SBA-15 prepared with Si/Na+ ratios ranging from 2.1 to 40 at 700 °C exhibited both cristobalite and quartz SiO2 structures in pore walls. When the Na+ amount increased (i.e., Si/Na increased from 80 to 40), the pore size was increased remarkably but the surface area and pore volume of the metal ion-based SBA-15 were decreased. When the SBA-15 prepared with Li+, K+ and Ca2+ ions (Si/metal ion = 40) was thermally treated at 700 °C, the crystalline SiO2 of quartz structure with large pore diameter (i.e., 802.5 Å) was observed for Ca+2 ion-based SBA-15, while no crystalline SiO2 structures were observed in pore walls for both the K+ and Li+ ions treated SBA-15. The crystalline SiO2 structures may be formed by the rearrangement of silica matrix when alkali or alkali earth metal ions are inserted into silica matrix at elevated temperature.
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Simoes-Cardoso JC, Hoshino N, Yoshimura Y, Chen CS, Dias-Cabral C, Yoshimoto N, Yamamoto S. Correlation between protein desorption behavior and its adsorption enthalpy change in polymer grafted anion exchange chromatography. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2021; 205:111853. [PMID: 34098366 DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2021.111853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2020] [Revised: 04/29/2021] [Accepted: 05/13/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Thermodynamic studies on protein adsorption onto chromatographic surfaces mainly focus on the molecular level interaction between proteins and ligands. Yet, not much attention is given to the study of polymer grafted ligand architecture effect on thermodynamic parameters, nor to the relation between chromatographic parameters and the directly obtained thermodynamic parameters. These relations are needed in order to confer meaning and to ease future data interpretation of thermodynamic studies of protein adsorption. In this study, the adsorption of bovine serum albumin monomer (BSAm) onto chromatographic surfaces with grafted ligands was studied from a thermodynamic point of view together with chromatographic data. Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) results showed that BSAm adsorption is exothermic (ΔH¯ads < 0) when adsorbs onto Toyopearl GigaCapQ 650 M, Toyopearl Q600AR, and Q Sepharose XL, but endothermic (ΔH¯ads > 0) when adsorbs onto Toyopearl SuperQ and a conventional resin (Q Sepharose Fast Flow), showing clear differences in the driving forces of adsorption caused by different ligand architectures. In addition, we found a new relation between the salt required for protein elution and the change in adsorption enthalpy (ΔH¯ads) directly measured with ITC, intrinsically connecting both adsorption and desorption mechanisms.
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- Joao Carlos Simoes-Cardoso
- Bio-Process Engineering Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering Center, Yamaguchi University, Tokiwadai 2-16-1, Ube 755-8611, Japan.
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- Bio-Process Engineering Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering Center, Yamaguchi University, Tokiwadai 2-16-1, Ube 755-8611, Japan
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- Bio-Process Engineering Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering Center, Yamaguchi University, Tokiwadai 2-16-1, Ube 755-8611, Japan
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- Bio-Process Engineering Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering Center, Yamaguchi University, Tokiwadai 2-16-1, Ube 755-8611, Japan
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- CICS-UBI - Health Sciences Research Centre, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, 6200-506, Portugal; Department of Chemistry, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, 6201-001, Portugal
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- Bio-Process Engineering Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering Center, Yamaguchi University, Tokiwadai 2-16-1, Ube 755-8611, Japan
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- Bio-Process Engineering Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering Center, Yamaguchi University, Tokiwadai 2-16-1, Ube 755-8611, Japan
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Falconer RJ, Schuur B, Mittermaier AK. Applications of isothermal titration calorimetry in pure and applied research from 2016 to 2020. J Mol Recognit 2021; 34:e2901. [PMID: 33975380 DOI: 10.1002/jmr.2901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Revised: 04/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/26/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The last 5 years have seen a series of advances in the application of isothermal titration microcalorimetry (ITC) and interpretation of ITC data. ITC has played an invaluable role in understanding multiprotein complex formation including proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACS), and mitochondrial autophagy receptor Nix interaction with LC3 and GABARAP. It has also helped elucidate complex allosteric communication in protein complexes like trp RNA-binding attenuation protein (TRAP) complex. Advances in kinetics analysis have enabled the calculation of kinetic rate constants from pre-existing ITC data sets. Diverse strategies have also been developed to study enzyme kinetics and enzyme-inhibitor interactions. ITC has also been applied to study small molecule solvent and solute interactions involved in extraction, separation, and purification applications including liquid-liquid separation and extractive distillation. Diverse applications of ITC have been developed from the analysis of protein instability at different temperatures, determination of enzyme kinetics in suspensions of living cells to the adsorption of uremic toxins from aqueous streams.
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- Robert J Falconer
- School of Chemical Engineering & Advanced Materials, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
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Gao W, Wang Y, Zhang F, Zhang S, Lian HZ. Tetrasulfonate calix[4]arene modified large pore mesoporous silica microspheres: Synthesis, characterization, and application in protein separation. Talanta 2021; 226:122171. [PMID: 33676713 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2021.122171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2020] [Revised: 01/23/2021] [Accepted: 01/27/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Effective protein adsorption by solid matrices from complex biological samples has attracted attention for broad application in biomedical field. Immobilization of calixarenes to solid supports is an essential process for their application in protein separation and purification. Silica is the most widely used support material in calixarene immobilization. With high concentration of polymer microspheres as templates, the large pore mesoporous silica microspheres with controllable, uniform size and structure were successfully synthesized and the resulting large pore mesoporous silica microspheres were modified with water-soluble tetrasulfonate calix[4]arene of unique hollow cavity-shaped structure. The tetrasulfonate calix[4]arene modified large pore mesoporous silica microspheres (SCLX4@LPMS) were characterized by diverse analytical techniques and their protein adsorption performance were also investigated. The obtained SCLX4@LPMS gave rise to an adsorption efficiency of >90% for cytochrome c and lysozyme within a wide pH range of 3.0-10.0 and possessed remarkably high adsorption capacity of cytochrome c (363.64 mg g-1) and lysozyme (166.11 mg g-1). The retained cytochrome c and lysozyme can be readily eluted by using phosphate buffer solution containing NaCl as a stripping reagent with the recoveries of 81% and 86% after 5 times enrichment, respectively. The SCLX4@LPMS microspheres have been applied for the selective adsorption of proteins in real samples and had the application potential in protein adsorption, drug delivery, biosensors, and other biomedical fields.
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- Wei Gao
- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering and Center of Materials Analysis, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering and Center of Materials Analysis, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering and Center of Materials Analysis, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering and Center of Materials Analysis, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering and Center of Materials Analysis, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023, China.
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