The critical role of agitation in moving from preliminary screening results to reproducible batch protein crystallisation
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Author(s)
Li, Xiaoyu
Heng, Jerry YY
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
This study investigated the important role of agitation in obtaining consistent and reproducible results when moving from preliminary qualitative screenings for protein crystallisation to quantitative batch crystallisation experiments. Lysozyme-thaumatin binary protein mixture was used as the model protein system in this study. Poor reproducibility between batches were observed for non-agitated crystallisation conditions even if the same sampling timing and frequency applied. With agitation, from 0 to 200 rpm investigated in this study, improved reproducibility of protein crystallisation was observed with increased agitation. Additionally, agitation also had impacts on supersaturation exhaustion rate, yield and crystal size. Moreover, in agitated batch crystallisation, it was found that target protein crystallisation process was decelerated in the presence of protein impurity. In conclusion, we emphasised the essential role of agitation in protein crystallisation experiments else misleading conclusions with inconsistency might be drawn from non-agitated systems.
Date Issued
2021-09-01
Date Acceptance
2021-06-18
Citation
Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 2021, 173, pp.81-88
ISSN
0263-8762
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
81
End Page
88
Journal / Book Title
Chemical Engineering Research and Design
Volume
173
Copyright Statement
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Engineering, Chemical
Engineering
Bioseparation
Protein crystallisation
Mixing
Agitation
Lysozyme
Thaumatin
LYSOZYME
NUCLEATION
DELIVERY
CRYSTALS
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2021-06-30