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Xueyan Zou1, Kun Li, Yanbao Zhao
1Key Laboratory for Special Functional Materials, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, P. R. China. zhaoyb902@henu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Ferroferric oxide/l-cysteine (Fe3O4/Cys) nanospheres (NSs) have been successfully synthesized via a facile solvothermal route. Fe3O4/Cys NSs possessed high thiol group density and saturation magnetization (Ms) of 84.6 emu g-1. The prepared magnetic NSs are biocompatible and manipulatable by an external magnetic force. After chelating Ni2+ ions, Fe3O4/Cys-Ni2+ NSs were used to enrich and purify histidine-tagged (His-tagged) proteins directly from the mixture of lysed cells without pretreatment. It has been found that Fe3O4/Cys-Ni2+ NSs present negligible nonspecific protein adsorption and high protein binding activity with the saturation capacity being 53.2 μg mg-1 and they are especially suitable for rapid purification of His-tagged proteins.
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