Z. Liu et al., CONTINUOUS SEPARATION OF PROTEINS BY POLY(VINYL ALCOHOL) SHIELDED MULTICHANNEL FLOW ELECTROPHORESIS, Biotechnology techniques, 10(4), 1996, pp. 253-256
A hydrophilic polysulphone membrane spaced multicompartment electrolyz
er for Multichannel Flow Electrophoresis (MFE) was developed. Applicat
ion of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) in MFE resulted in a 35% increase of
protein transmembrane flux. Continuous separation of bovine serum albu
min (BSA) and haemoglobin bovine blood (HBB) model mixture by PVA shie
lded MFE yielded 56mg BSA and 48mg HBB per hour. The average recovery
was 65%.