Proteins are the essence of life processes. DNA contains the coded information for life, and is analogous to computer software, but it is the proteins that are analogous to the hardware, that actually carry out the job. Proteins have many roles, from catalysts (enzymes), through proteins that bind and interact with other molecules to control their behaviour, to structural and storage proteins w...

Medicinal plants containing essential bioactive ingredients are used to cure disease or disorder since time immortal. One of the aims of medicinal plant research is the isolation and identification of markers/ bioactive compounds. Isolation of the markers compounds and bioactive plant constituents has always been a challenging task for the researchers. Separation of these components from the me...

Bacillus thuringiensis and recombinant Escherichia coli proteinaceous protoxins were subject to proteolysis and analyzed by capillary electrokinetic chromatography. Three resulting toxins (65 kDa) were baseline-resolved within 22 min using a 10 mM borate, pH 11 separation buffer consisting of 25 mM sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and 30 mM phytic acid. The toxins displayed differential interaction...

Several column chromatographic methods are available for the separation of aflatoxins (l-6). Most of these procedures are elaborate and involve several steps of purification. A rapid and simple method of obtaining pure aflatoxins was reported by Steyn (5); however, with this method, we were not able to obtain pure crystalline aflatoxins B, and G1 for our experimental studies on animals. When pu...

Principle Chromatographic procedures allow a separation of substance mixtures with the aid of a stationary separating phase and a mobile phase. In gas chromatography the mobile phase is a gas. The mobile phase, to which the mixture to be separated is added, transports the substance mixture through the separation column at a constant flow rate. Interactions occur between the mobile phase and the...

Hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) is a technique that has become increasingly popular for the separation of polar, hydrophilic, and ionizable compounds, which are diffi cult to separate by reversed phase chromatography (RP) due to their poor retention when RP is used. HILIC typically uses a polar stationary phase such as bare silica or a polar bonded phase, together with an eluent ...

A repetitive sequence of quiescent fluid layers of differing viscosities through which small spherical Brownian particles move is analyzed in order to illustrate in a simple context how the theory of macrotransport processes, a generalization of Taylor dispersion theory, may be employed to rigorously analyze spatially periodic micropatterned chromatographic separation devices for circumstances ...

Enriched stable isotopes of many elements have been widely used in many aspects and such isotopes have been primarily used as the tracer for agricultural and biochemical studies and the availability of the isotopically labeled compounds have been now extensively increasing. Chemical exchange separation of isotopes is based on the equilibrium fractionation of isotopes between two phases, ion exc...

background: plasminogen is one of the compounds derived from human plasma. activation of plasminogen produces plasmin. plasmin is able to lyse fibrinogen, fibrin, and some other human plasma proteins. the aim of the present work was to study the separation of human plasminogen by affinity chromatography using gel lysine sepharose. materials and methods: normal human plasma was used as the start...

Nanoliquid chromatography (nano-LC) was used for the separation of tocopherols (delta-, gamma-, alpha-TOH), alpha-tocopherol acetate (alpha-TOH-Ac) and an antioxidant compound, namely butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) used to prevent TOHs autoxidation. The separation was carried out in a fused silica capillary of 100 microm I.D. and 375 microm O.D. packed in our laboratory with RP18 silica station...