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Protein instability during HIC: Hydrogen exchange labeling analysis and a framework for describing mobile and stationary phase effects
Author(s) -
Xiao Yunzhi,
Jones Tara T.,
Laurent Abigail H.,
O'Connell John P.,
Przybycien Todd M.,
Fernandez Erik J.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
biotechnology and bioengineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.136
H-Index - 189
eISSN - 1097-0290
pISSN - 0006-3592
DOI - 10.1002/bit.21186
Subject(s) - chemistry , ammonium sulfate , salt (chemistry) , adsorption , chromatography , hydrophobic effect , circular dichroism , deuterium , phase (matter) , hydrophilic interaction chromatography , ammonium , high performance liquid chromatography , crystallography , organic chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics
Unfolding of marginally stable proteins is a significant factor in commercial application of hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC). In this work, hydrogen‐deuterium isotope exchange labeling has been used to monitor protein unfolding on HIC media for different stationary phase hydrophobicities and as a function of ammonium sulfate concentration. Circular dichroism and Raman spectroscopy were also used to characterize the structural perturbations experienced by solution phase protein that had been exposed to media and by protein adsorbed on media. As expected, greater instability is seen on chromatographic media with greater apparent hydrophobicity. However, increased salt concentrations also led to more unfolding, despite the well‐known stabilizing effect of ammonium sulfate in solution. A thermodynamic framework is proposed to account for the effects of salt on both adsorption and stability during hydrophobic chromatography. Using appropriate estimates of input quantities, analysis with the framework can explain how salt effects on stability in chromatographic systems may contrast with solution stability. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2007;96: 80–93. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.