By: Alan Schultz & Jack Bobzien
Our company has developed a Fab fragment product and needed the purification process verified. Using E. Coli, propose a new purification train and determine cost evaluation. Work within the given constraints.
Affinity resins for Fab are too expensive for manufacturing scale. Need to produce 50 kg/yr. Expression levels are expected to reach 10% of total extracted protein in 10 years. Achieve above a 99% purity in product.
Fragment Antigen binding (Fab fragment) Can be expressed in various hosts like E. Coli, yeast etc. Periplasmic Expression pI of 7.0 M.W. of 50 kDa
E. Coli Used Strain W3110 Widely used in the pharmaceutical industry.
Immobilized metal-ion affinity chromatography His 6 -tagged Fab Use of EDTA-Mg 2+ and imidazole 92.4% purity in exit stream
Overall: hrs V-105: hrs V-106: hrs
Periplasmic Complications For current system, an IMAC Column was major modification $250 per g/ YFP