Affinity ChromatographyAffinity chromatography is based on the

principle of specific interaction between the protein or antigen and antibody for separation

of biomolecules

Related LOs: Column preparation, Chromatographic technique > Prior Viewing – IDD-6. Extraction of serum protein, IDD-42. Liquid chromatography - affinity chromatography > Future Viewing – IDD-38. Stable isotope labeling using amino acids in cell culture (SILAC), IDD-37. Isotope-coded affinity tags (ICAT), IDD-39. LC-MSMS data analysis

Course Name: Affinity Chromatography Level(UG/PG): PG Author(s): Dinesh Raghu, Vinayak Pachapur Mentor: Dr. Sanjeeva Srivastava

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Learning objectives

After interacting with this learning object, the learner will be able to:

1. Define the column preparation for the chromatographic technique

2. Prepare elution buffers required for experiment

3. Analyse the mechanism behind the protein purification

4. Assess the troubleshooting steps involved in the experiments.

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Master Layout

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1Column Preparation

Sample loading

Sample separation

UV-visible spectrometry

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Definitions and Keywords

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11. Affinity purification: A chromatographic purification procedure that makes

use of specific interactions between the analyte of interest and the capture analyte immobilized on the column. In some application Ni-His, iron,zinc, gallium column are used for analysis and in ICAT, avidin affinity chromatography is employed due to its specificity of interaction with biotin.

2. Isotope Coded Affinity Tagging (ICAT): ICAT is an in vitro labeling technique that modifies peptides or proteins specifically at the cysteine amino acid residue and can be used for accurate quantitation of protein expression.

3. Light ICAT label: The light ICAT reagent consists of a Cys-reactive group, an ICAT linker consisting of hydrogen atoms and a biotin tag. The chemically reactive group forms covalent bonds with peptides or proteins while the affinity tag enables the protein to be isolated by affinity chromatography in a single step that is used to tag the control sample.

4. Heavy ICAT label: The heavy ICAT label consists of a Cys-reactive group, an ICAT linker consisting of heavy deuterium isotope and a biotin tag that is used to tag the Drug treated sample.

Step 1:

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3Instruct the user to go through the IDD-37. Isotope-coded affinity tags (ICAT) slide from 31 to 47.

DEAE AVIDIN-Column

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The samples for analysis is labeled with biotin tag.

T1:Column Preparation

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3Animate like the user taking a column from the fridge, by opening it and removing the cover and tightening the stopper at the bottom in the column. Zoom in to show the column as above

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Take the avidin column from the fridge to carry out pre-treatment of the column.

T1:Column Preparation

stopper

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3Animate like the user tightening the stopper at the bottom in the column. The user must click on the beaker labeled as “distilled water” and animate like the user pouring the water inside the tube using the pipette by setting full volume. Now instruct the user to place a beaker at the bottom of the columns and open the stopper. Animate like the liquid coming out of the tube like drops into the beaker and show like closing the stopper.

Distilled water

Wash the column using distilled water to remove the buffer material used in column storage.

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T2:Sample loading

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3Show a tube labeled as “tube 5,6” from slide: 56-57 of IDD-37. Isotope-coded affinity tags (ICAT) and user should take the pipette set to 100ul, pipette out the sample and add to the column as shown in figure. Repeat the step until all the samples are in the column.

Events must happen as and when the user clicks on the pipette animate a clock for 10 minutes

Load the sample to the avidin column.

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T2:Sample loading

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Column 1

Avidin labeled beads

T3:Sample separation

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3Animate like rings of different color labeled as Light (L) and similarly other rings of different colors labeled as Heavy (H) show like the L and H binding to the column while rings without H or L labeling comes out. Please re-draw the above figure.

The separation is based on the affinity of the biotin in the tag to the avidin in the column, the protein which have taken up heavy and light isotopes tend to show affinity to the column.

T3:Sample separationLight (L)

Heavy (H)

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Pour 0.1% formic acid containing 0.1ml formic acid and 99.9 ml water to the column, to elute the bound molecules.

Now instruct the user to take the pipette set 1000ul and take bottle labeled as 0.1% formic acid to add into the column. show the increase in the volume in the column and the circles with different labeling moving. show movement as described in slide:9 and 10.

Events must happen when the user clicks on it

T3:Sample separation

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T3:Sample separation

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T3:Sample separation

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3Show the collection tubes in row and the solution dropping into it. Show in tube:1 only the solution, tube:2 with some unlabeled rings, user should click on it and a tab should appear to display ”unlabeled proteins” and tube:3 with more of unlabeled rings, tube:4 with some labeled rings user should click on it and a tab should appear labeled as ”Isotope tagged proteins” and increased amount of L and H rings in tube 5,6 and less of L and H rings in tube 7,8 and only solution in tube 9. Instruct the user to take the tube 5,6,7,8 for analysis

The protein that show low interaction with the beads will be eluted first followed by moderately interacting protein and highly interacting proteins. Here the proteins that are tagged with biotin label show more interaction when compared to other proteins.

T3:Sample separation

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3Cuvette

T4: UV-visible spectrometry

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Show a instrument labeled as “UV –visible spectrometry” and the samples in the stand as shown in figure. Animate buttons like “start, auto zero, absorbance, stop” on the instrument

Now instruct the user to switch on the instrument, set the wavelength to 595nm by pressing on numbers. Open the lid of the instrument, take a cuvette as in figure and click on phosphate buffer to take it into the cuvette and animate like keeping it inside the UV Visible spectrometry. Press “auto zero” display a value on the system as “0.000”. animate like the user opening the lid and taking the cuvette and discarding the solution, now animate like the user taking the sample:1 transferring it to the cuvette, keeping it inside, closing the lid and press absorbance to show the values as in next slide. For other sample (2-9) follow the same step like above.

Detect the presence of protein of using the UV –visible spectrometry. The high absorbance reading indicate the presence of protein. For more information on the UV-Visible spectrometry please go through IDD-50 basic instrumentation.

T4: UV-visible spectrometry

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Sample absorbance

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Volume of sample

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T4: UV-visible spectrometry

Animation area

Interaction 1: slide-16: user getting zero reading from tubes 6-9.

Instructions: user need to increase the concentration of elution buffer to remove out the bound proteins.

Instructions/ Working area

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Questionnaire:APPENDIX

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Question 1

In affinity chromatography separation is based ona)Molecular sizeb)Molecular structurec)specificityd)Stereochemistry

Question 2

Affinity chromatography mostly uses

a)Antibody coated beadsb)Column with empty beadsc)Only mobile phased)Only column

Question 3:

Avidin-Biotin chromatography mobile phase isa)0.1% formic acidb)Buffer containing Basec)Buffer Containing saltd)Size exclusion beads

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Question 4:

In affinity chromatography stationary phase isa) Buffer containing acidb) Buffer containing Basec) Buffer Containing saltd) Beads with specific proteins/metal that react with tagged protein

Question 5: biotin bindsa) Antibodiesb) Streptavidinc) Antigend) column

Links for further reading

Reference websites:

1.www.mnstate.edu/provost/sizeexclusionprotocol.pdf

2.www.younglin.com/brochure_pdf/waters/lcGPC.pdf

APPENDIX 2

Summary

APPENDIX 3

Affinity chromatography involves separation based specific interaction between the tagged protein and packing column used. The packing material used for the separation plays a very important role in separation of proteins.

Steps involves: elution buffer preparation, sample loading, elution and analysis using UV-Visible spectrometry.