Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2014, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (7): 201-208.

• Research Report • Previous Articles    

Fe3O4 Magnetic Dextran Nanoparticles Modified with SPA Ligand for IgG Purification

Ren Jinggang, Cheng Chao, Zhong Conghao, Zhang li, Li Rongxiu   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Microbial metabolism, and School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240
  • Received:2014-01-07 Online:2014-07-15 Published:2014-07-16

Abstract: The objective of present research is to prepare magnetic dextran nanoparticles conjugated with Staphylococcal Protein A(SPA-MDPs)for the purification of IgG. The magnetic nanoparticles were prepared by following a high-temperature solution-phase procedure, and the average particle size can be tuned from 30 to 200 nm by simply varying the concentration of NaOH during the reaction. The size of SPA-MDPs nanoparticles has a great influence on their adsorption capacity for IgG. A maximum adsorption of human IgG was calculated to be 84.85 mg/mL with a binding affinity constant of 3.48×106 M-1 when the average size of SPA-MDPs is about 101.5 nm. The experiment results also demonstrated that the SPA-MDPs nanoparticles can be recycled for 5 times with minor loss of adsorption capacity. Moreover, IgG was purified from human plasma with a purity of 93.5% and recovery of 88.7%. Thus, SPA-MDPs show promising potentials for isolation and purification of IgG.

Key words: Dextran, Magnetic nanoparticles, SPA, IgG purification