K. Hamaker et al., Rolled stationary phases: Dimensionally structured textile adsorbents for rapid liquid chromatography of proteins, IND ENG RES, 38(3), 1999, pp. 865-872
A woven textile fabric, consisting of 60% cotton/40% polyester, tightly rol
led in a cylindrical configuration, has a three-dimensional structure with
sufficient hydrodynamic stability to withstand interstitial eluent velociti
es of up to 300 cm/min when packed into standard liquid chromatography colu
mn assemblies. Demonstration of the pressure stability of the cotton/ polye
ster fabric was followed up with experiments in which the cotton (cellulose
) portion was derivatized and the fabric evaluated for chromatography of pr
oteins. When derivatized to give a (diethylamino)ethyl (DEAE) anion exchang
er, a velocity independent plate height of 2 mm, a static capacity of 115 m
g of bovine serum albumin/g of stationary phase, and a dynamic protein load
ing capacity which decreases only 25% over an 800% increase in mobile-phase
velocity from 6.7 to 54 cm/min was achieved. The fibers that make up the s
tationary phase have a relatively nonporous structure which minimizes pore
diffusional effects. A protein separation of Cytochrome C from beta-lactogl
obulin A is shown to be completed by ion-exchange chromatography in less th
an 10 min using an NaCl step gradient. Gradient chromatography of a hen egg
white shows resolution of the proteins into two major components (lysozyme
and ovalbumin) as well as two minor ones. A size exclusion separation of P
EG 20 000 from glucose requires only 90 s. These characteristics, together
with the ability of the cellulose-based stationary phase to withstand rapid
flow rates, indicate that this type of stationary phase has potential for
applications where chromatography using DEAE-cellulose particles has proven
successful.