Thermodynamic description of peptide adsorption on mixed-mode resins

In this work the adsorption of tri-peptides on a mixed-mode resin was studied using isocratic pulse response experiments. Various salt concentration, temperature and pH combinations were used to measure retention times of several tri-peptides. The experiments were evaluated according to an extension of the stoichiometric displacement model and the steric mass action model of protein-ligand binding. The application of this model in the understanding of mixed mode adsorption process is discussed. A unique set of meaningful thermodynamic parameters was obtained for each resin-peptide-temperature and resin-peptide-pH combination. Finally it was shown that these thermodynamic parameters can be used in defining quantitative relationships within the framework of extra thermodynamic relationships.