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1902- Mikhail Tswett developed the most important technique for isolating and purifying
biomolecules. He Began his studies on the isolation and characterization of the colorful
pigments in plant chloroplasts. He prepared separating columns by packing fine powders
like sucrose and chalk (calcium carbonate) into long glass tubes. He then poured
petroleum ether-derived plant extracts through the columns. As he continued eluting the
columns with solvent, he noted the formation of yellow and green zones.
- He published and name it “________________”- “a method in which the
components of a mixture are separated on an adsorbent in a flowing solvent.”
- Tswett also showed by these experiments that chlorophyll exists in different
forms.
- Also use for the characterization, of biomolecules.
- It is widely used as an analytical tool to measure biophysical and other quantitative
properties of molecules.
The sample contains a ________ of several components to be separated. The molecules targeted for
analysis are called _________.
The mobile phase, which may be a ____________, moves the sample components through a region
containing the solid or liquid stationary phase, which is called the _______.
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The molecular components in the sample distribute themselves between the mobile phase and sorbent
and thus have the opportunity to interact intimately with the stationary phase. If some of the
sample molecules are preferentially bound by the sorbent, they spend more time in the sorbent and
are retarded in their movement through the chromatographic system.
Molecules that show ____ affinity for the sorbent spend ___________ with the mobile phase and
are more easily removed or eluted from the system.
The general process of moving a sample mixture through a chromatographic system is called
______________. The mobile phase can be collected as a function of time at the end of the
chromatographic system. The mobile phase, now called the __________, contains the purified
analytes. If the chromatographic process has been effective, fractions or “____” that are collected
at different times will contain the different components of the original sample.
Molecules are separated because they _____ in the extent to which they are distributed between
the mobile phase and the stationary phase.
A preparative procedure is one that can be applied to the purification of a relatively large amount of
a biological material (mg or g).
Partition processes are the ____________ for the separation of small molecules those in
homologous series.
It has been widely used for the separation and identification of __________, ____________,
and _____________.
__________chromatography refers to the use of a stationary phase or support, such as an ion-
exchange resin, that has a finite number of relatively specific binding sites for analytes.
relies on relatively specific interactions between the analytes and binding sites on the surface of
the sorbent. The attractive forces between analyte and support may be ionic, hydrogen bonding,
or hydrophobic interactions.
Binding of analyte is _____________.
Most effective when applied to the separation of ______________ including proteins and
nucleic acids.
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NOTE:
All chromatographic separations rely, to some extent, on __________ processes.
In some methods (paper, thin-layer, and gas chromatography), these specific adsorptive effects
are minimal and the separation is based primarily on nonspecific solubility factors.
PREPARATIONS
SORBENT
The support medium may be a sheet of _______________________ plate covered with a thin
coating of ______________________. Large sheets of cellulose chromatography paper are
available in different porosities.
1. These may be cut to the appropriate size and used without further treatment.
2. The paper should never be handled with bare fingers.
3. It is much more convenient to purchase ready-made plates.
4. Available in a variety of sizes, materials, and thicknesses of stationary support.
5. Inexpensive and have a more uniform support thickness than handmade plates.
The sample to be analyzed is usually dissolved in a _________ solvent.
1. A very small drop of solution is spotted onto the plate with a disposable microcapillary
pipet and allowed to dry
2. Then the spotting process is repeated by superimposing more drops on the original spot.
3. There must be enough sample so the developed spots can be detected, but overloading will
lead to “_______” and lack of resolution.
4. Finding the proper sample size is a matter of ___________.
5. It is usually recommended that ____________ spots of different concentrations be
applied for each sample tested.
6. Spots should be applied along a very faint line drawn with a pencil and ruler.
7. TLC plates should not be heavily scratched or marked. Identifying marks may be made on
the top of the chromatogram, where solvent does not reach.
SOLVENT
Solvents can be rapidly screened by developing several small chromatograms in small sealed
bottles containing the solvents.
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The sample should be run on a larger plate with appropriate standards in a development chamber
for actual analysis.
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DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT OF COMPONENTS
If samples are colored their location on a chromatogram will not be obvious after solvent
development.
Methods to locate:
1. fluorescence
2. radioactivity
3. treatment with chemicals that develop colors.
Substances that are highly conjugated may be detected by fluorescence under a ________.
Chromatograms may be treated with different types of reagents to develop a color.
____________ reagents produce a colored spot with any organic compound. When a solvent-
developed plate is sprayed with concentrated hydrochloric acid and heated at 100 degrees for a
few minutes, all organic substances appear as _________. A more convenient universal reagent is
_________.
The solvent-developed chromatogram is placed in an enclosed chamber containing a few crystals
of iodine. The iodine vapor reacts with most organic substances on the plate to produce _____
spots. The spots are more intense with _________________.
__________ reagents react with a particular class of compound.
Example:
1. rhodamine B is often used for visualization of _______
2. ninhydrin for ___________
3. aniline phthalate for ________
The position of each component of a mixture is quantified by calculating the distance traveled by
the component relative to the distance traveled by the solvent. This is called _____________
and symbolized by _____
The Rf for a substance is a ________ a certain set of experimental conditions. However, it
varies with solvent, type of stationary support (paper, alumina, silica gel), temperature, humidity,
and other environmental factors. values are always reported along with solvent and temperature.
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Any changes in experimental conditions (temperature, humidity, etc.) affect standards and
unknowns to the same extent. It is then possible to compare the Rf values directly.
Purified substances can be isolated from developed chromatograms; however, only tiny
amounts are present.
In paper chromatography, the spot may be cut out with scissors and the piece of paper
extracted with an appropriate solvent. Isolation of a substance from a TLC plate is
accomplished by scraping the solid support from the region of the spot with a knife edge
or razor blade and extracting the sorbent with a _______.
“Preparative” thin-layer plates with a thick coating of sorbent (up to 2 mm) are especially
useful because they have _______ sample capacity.
- KINDLY DO THE ACTIVITY ATTACHED-
COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY
Adsorption chromatography in biochemical applications usually consists of a
__________________________________________
The most useful technique is _______________________, in which the stationary phase is
confined to a glass or plastic tube and the mobile phase is allowed to flow through the solid
adsorbent.
A small amount of the sample to be analyzed is layered on top of the column. The sample mixture
enters the column of adsorbing material and the molecules present are distributed between the
mobile phase and the stationary phase. Collection of the liquid phase emerging from the column
yields separate fractions containing the individual components in the sample. Specific terminology
is used to describe various aspects of column chromatography. When the actual adsorbing
material is made into a column, it is said to be poured or packed.
Application of the sample to the top of the column is ______________.
Movement of solvent through the loaded column is called _____________________.
The _____________ is the total volume of solvent and adsorbing material taken up by the
column. The volume taken up by the liquid phase in the column is the __________.
The _____________ is the amount of solvent required to remove a particular analyte from the
column.
In adsorption chromatography, solute molecules take part in specific interactions with the
stationary phase.
Adsorbing materials come in various forms and sizes.
The most suitable forms are:
1. dry powders
2. slurry form of the material in an aqueous buffer or organic solvent. Alumina, silica gel, and
fluorisil do not normally need special pretreatment.
Adsorbent Useful in Biochemical Application
Adsorbing Materials Uses
Alumina Small organics, lipids
Silica gel Amino acids, lipids, carbohydrates
Fluorisil (magnesium silicate) Neutral lipids
Calcium phosphate (hydroxyapatite) Proteins, polynucleotides, nucleic acids
Cellulose proteins
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For most biochemical applications, 100 to 200 mesh size is suitable.
Mesh Sizes of Adsorbents and Typical Applications
Mesh sizes Applications
20-50 Crude preparative work, very high flow rate
50-100 Preparative applications, high flow rate
100-200 Analytical separations, medium flow rate
200-400 High- resolution analytical separations, low flow
rate
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The slurry is prepared with the solvent or buffer that will be used as the initial developing
solvent. Pouring of the slurry must be _________ to avoid formation of sorbent layers. Excess
solvent is eluted from the bottom of the column while the sorbent is settling.
The column must never _____.
Additional slurry is added until the column bed reaches the desired height. The top of the settled
adsorbent is then covered with a small circle of filter paper or glass wool to protect the surface
while the column is loaded with sample or the eluting solvent is changed. Sometimes it is
necessary to pack a column under pressure (5 to 10 psi). This leads to a tightly packed bed that
yields more reproducible results, especially with gradient elution.
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stage 3-Analytes that have a charge opposite to that of the resin bind tightly but reversibly to
the stationary phase
The strength of binding depends on the size of the _________ and the charge density of the
analyte.
The _______ the charge or the charge density, the ___________ the interaction.
Neutral analytes or those with a charge identical to that of the resin show _______________
for the stationary phase and move with the eluting buffer.
stage 4-The bound analytes can be released by eluting the column with a buffer of increased ionic
strength or pH .
stage 5-An increase in buffer ionic strength releases bound analytes by displacement. Increasing
the buffer pH decreases the strength of the interaction by reducing the charge on the analyte
or on the resin .
Ion-Exchange Resins
Made up of two parts:
1. an insoluble
2. three-dimensional matrix
3. chemically bonded charged groups within and on the surface of the matrix.
The resins are prepared from a variety of materials:
1. polystyrene
2. acrylic resins
3. polysaccharides (dextrans)
4. agarose
5. celluloses
An ion exchanger is classified as:
1. cationic
2. anionic.
A resin that has negatively charged functional groups exchanges positive ions and is a cation
exchanger.
Each type of exchanger is also classified as:
1. strong
2. weak
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An exchanger with a quaternary amino group is a ________________ anion exchanger, whereas
primary or secondary aromatic or aliphatic amino groups would lead to a _____________ anion
exchanger.
A strongly acidic cation exchanger contains the _____________ group.
The total capacity of an ion exchanger is the quantity of charged and potentially charged groups
per unit weight of dry exchanger. It is usually expressed as _______________ of ionizable
groups per milligram of dry weight, and it can be experimentally determined by ____________.
The capacity of an ion exchanger is a function of the porosity of the resin. The resin matrix
contains covalent cross-linking that creates a “______________.”
The purely synthetic resins (polystyrene and acrylic) have cross-linking ranging from 2 to 16%,
with 8% being the best for general purposes.
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Amphoteric molecules should bind to both anionic and cationic exchangers. The range of stability
refers to the pH range in which the biomolecule is not denatured.
Below the isoelectric point the molecule has a net ________ charge and would be bound to a
_______ exchanger.
Above the isoelectric point, the net charge is _________, and the protein would bind to an
______exchanger.
In most cases, the isoelectric point of the protein is not known. The type of ion exchanger must
be chosen by trial and error as follows.
1. Small samples of the protein mixture in buffer are equilibrated for 10 to 15 minutes in
separate test tubes, one with each type of ion exchanger.
2. The tubes are then centrifuged or let stand to sediment the ion exchanger.
3. Check each supernatant for the presence of the desired analyte ( for nucleic acids, for
proteins, catalytic activity for enzymes, etc.).
4. If a supernatant has a relatively low level of added protein, that ion exchanger would be
suitable for use.
The ion exchanger charged with the macromolecule is treated with buffers of increasing ionic
strength or changing pH. The supernatant after each treatment is analyzed as before for release
of the macromolecule.
Choice of Buffer
Buffer ions with a charge opposite to that on the ion exchanger compete with analyte for binding
sites and greatly reduce the capacity of the column.
___________ buffers should be used with anionic exchangers; __________ buffers should be
used with cationic exchangers. The pH chosen for the buffer depends first of all on the range of
stability of the macromolecule to be separated.
Second, the buffer pH should be chosen so that the desired macromolecule will bind to the ion
exchanger. The ionic strength should be relatively ___ to avoid “damping” of the interaction
between analyte and ion exchanger. Buffer concentrations in the range ________ M are
recommended.
Storage of Resins
Most ion exchangers in the dry form are stable for many years.
Aqueous slurried ion exchangers are still useful after several months.
One major storage problem with a wet exchanger is ____________. This is especially true for
the cellulose and dextran exchangers. If it is necessary to store pretreated exchangers, an
__________________ must be added to the slurry.
Sodium azide (0.02%) is suitable for cation exchangers
phenylmercuric salts (0.001%) are effective for anion exchangers.
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it
today.
-Malcolm X-
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