Short peptide biomimetic chromatography technology as a developing protein separation technology has huge potential for antibody purification. In this study, four tetrapeptide ligands (Ac-FYKH, Ac-YEHF, Ac-YFLH and Ac-FYHI) with high potential binding ability to antibody were selected for the optimal ligand to antibody purification. The results showed that Ac-YEHF-4FF resin had higher binding capacity and selectivity for hIgG among the four resins. And at pH 7.0 and 0.3 ml/min, the highest Q10%-hIgG of Ac-YEHF-4FF resin was 26.2 mg/ml resin while its Q10%-BSA was just 2.2 mg/ml resin. Further, Ac-YEHF-4FF resin was used to purify protein mixtures. By binding at pH 7.0 and being eluted at pH 5.0 and pH 4.0, Ac-YEHF-4FF resin was well used to separate hIgG from BSA containing feedstock, HSA containing feedstock and human serum with the purity and yield both more than 95 %. And the screened resin could also separate mAb from CHO cell culture supernatant with purity 94.3 % and yield 97.5 %. The adsorption and separation results of Ac-YEHF-4FF resin indicated that the goal of getting the efficacy of critical residues from protein A to biomimetic its structure and function could be achieved, which had great significance to the establishment and improvement of tetrapeptide biomimetic chromatography, and also provided a new method for the field of antibody separation and purification.
Keywords: Antibody; Biomimetic chromatography; Separation and purification; Tetrapeptide ligands.
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