Abstract

An extension of the stoichiometric displacement (SD) model for the ion-exchange adsorption of dilute proteins is developed which accounts for the effects of hydrogen ion Donnan equilibrium on the protein charge. The ability of the new model to fit retention data when the fluid phase pH is near the protein pI and the effects of hydrogen ion Donnan equilibrium are important is examined using four different proteins and four different column packings. The results indicate that the model is able to fit retention data using values for the protein pI and the change in protein charge with pH at the pI, i.e., (dz/dpH)pI, that are significantly closer to the values of these parameters determined by isoelectric focusing and acid-base titrametry in free solution, respectively, as compared to the values obtained by determining the characteristic binding change as a function of pH using the traditional stoichiometric displacement model. This suggests that when the fluid phase pH is near the protein pI, charge regulation is an important cause of the discrepancy between the electrical charge of a protein in free solution and the characteristic binding charge from the stoichiometric displacement model. The results also indicate that for the case where the fluid phase pH is near the protein pI, the new model accounts for the effect of charge regulation during protein ion-exchange adsorption more accurately than previous models in the literature.

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