US20080154029A1 - Process For Manufacturing a Composite Sorbent Material For Chromatographical Separation of Biopolymers - Google Patents

Process For Manufacturing a Composite Sorbent Material For Chromatographical Separation of Biopolymers Download PDF

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US20080154029A1
US20080154029A1 US11/547,011 US54701105A US2008154029A1 US 20080154029 A1 US20080154029 A1 US 20080154029A1 US 54701105 A US54701105 A US 54701105A US 2008154029 A1 US2008154029 A1 US 2008154029A1
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  • the present invention relates to a sorbent material for separation and purification of biopolymers, particularly nucleic acids, having a solid support substantially modified with a copolymer coating comprising aromatic monomers and crosslinking compounds and unsaturated esters or ethers preferably attached to the support via a vinylchlorsilane.
  • hydrophilic support material such as silica gel
  • hydrophobic moieties like alkyl chains of different length.
  • U.S. Pat. No. 4,045,353 describes a chromatographic material prepared by radiation of polymerisable monomers absorbed on a microporous inorganic substrate.
  • the sorbent material thus obtained is suitable for separation of relatively small molecules, but there is insufficient selectivity for separation of biopolymers like nucleic acids.
  • EP 1 148 945 discloses a material having a solid support of controlled pore glass and a coating of crosslinkable olefinic oligomers. Fluorination of the oligomer coated support is effected with gaseous xenon difluoride (XeF 2 ), optionally under inert gas conditions, or with a mixture of fluorine and an inert carrier gas.
  • XeF 2 gaseous xenon difluoride
  • the composite material thus obtained is suitable for use in the isolation of DNA out of complex mixtures, where apart of DNA also RNA, proteins, low molecular substances and salts are present.
  • DNA also RNA, proteins, low molecular substances and salts are present.
  • HPLC high pressure
  • HIC hydrophobic interaction chromatography
  • sorbents on the basis of macroporous silica gels, modified with vinyl monomers like N-vinyl-pyrrolidone, styrene, ethylene, vinylethyl ether (authors certificate, USSR, No. 687081, 1979).
  • the sorbent materials are manufactured in applying said monomers to ⁇ -aminopropylated or silanised silica gel and subsequent polymerisation.
  • These sorbents possess good mechanical stability, do not swell in solvents and may be used for the separation of proteins and other active biomolecules. No hint is given for using these materials in the separation of nucleic acids.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a sorbent material with improved characteristics in separation and purification capacity and increased selectivity in the specific action of the sorbent material on biopolymers having an advanced surface for biotechnological applications, such as isolation and separation of biopolymers, primarily in aqueous media, with improved access area of the separation surface in a separation medium and improved stability of the coating for the construction of material suitable for chromatographical applications like HPLC and fast sample preparations via solid phase extraction in compact cartridges for PCR-applications.
  • the object is solved by a polymer obtainable by a process of polymerizing at least three components [A], [B], and [M] wherein
  • [A], [B], and [M] have the same meaning as in claim 1 and x, y, and z are independent of each other an integer of 1-100 and p is a number between 2 and 5000.
  • Subject matter of the invention is also a monomer having the structure [A] x —[B] y —[M] z wherein [A], [B], and [M] have the same meaning as in claim 1 and x, y, and z is independent of each other an integer of 1-100
  • a chromatographic material comprising essentially a polymer of the invention is also subject matter of the invention as well as a composite sorbent material having a support which is at least partially covered by a polymer coating of the invention.
  • a sorbent material having a previously dehydrated solid support having a copolymer coating comprising substituted or unsubstituted aromatic vinyl monomers, substituted or unsubstituted aromatic crosslinking compounds and optionally non-saturated carboxylic acids or esters or non-saturated alcohols or ethers, respectively.
  • the coating can be attached to the support via a vinylchlorsilane.
  • Substituents of the compounds of the copolymer coating modify the hydrophobic/hydrophilic properties on the surface of the coating and provide an essentially improved selectivity for selected applications.
  • the functional groups exhibiting hydrophilic properties provide an essentially better wetting of the inner and outer surfaces of the pores of the sorbent material.
  • the support of the sorbent material of the invention is porous inorganic material selected from the group comprising inorganic metal oxides, such as oxides of aluminum, titanium, zirconium, silicon and/or iron.
  • inorganic metal oxides such as oxides of aluminum, titanium, zirconium, silicon and/or iron.
  • silica gel having an average pore size of 100-2000 ⁇ , preferably 300-1000 ⁇ , and a specific surface of 20-300 m 2 /g, more preferably 20-200 m 2 /g or 20-100 m 2 /g.
  • the support containing inorganic materials is in particle-like or monolithic membrane-like form and has a porous structure which shows a bidisperse or oligodisperse distribution of pore sizes.
  • Such structures build, e. g., the basis for sorbent materials according to the present invention, which allow additionally to the separation of biopolymers such as nucleic acids the improved retention of low molecular weight substances having, e. g., molecular weights of less than 500 Da, salts and proteins, whereas nucleic acids are passing without retention.
  • the separation of nucleic acids, e. g. DNA is conducted in one step.
  • Such bidisperse supports may preferentially be obtained by means of gelling (gel building) of silica sols, starting the process with the mixture of two size types of monodisperse colloidal silica particles.
  • the mass proportion of these two types of colloidal particles determines the proportion and distribution of differently sized pores in the final silica support material.
  • the ratio of the mean diameter of the large pore size distribution and the lower pore size distribution is in the range of 2-15 or 3-15 nm, in particular 4-10 nm.
  • the mean diameter of the larger pore size distribution should not be smaller than 25 to 50 nm and should not exceed 200 nm (2000 ⁇ ), preferably 100 nm (1000 ⁇ ).
  • Especially preferred mean diameters of the large pore size distribution are in the range of 20-100, more preferably 25-80 nm.
  • the mass proportion of the smaller to larger pores represents (90-60, preferably 85-70):(10-40, preferably 15-30) (in %).
  • the polymer coating preferably has a thickness of about 10 to 250 Angström, preferably 10 to 100 Angström and micropores of less than 50 ⁇ accessable to water, salts, and low molecular weight substances being non-adsorptive towards nucleic acids and adsorptive towards proteins.
  • the previously dried support material is modified by treating it with a boiling solution of a vinylchlorsilane. Treatment of the surface of the support material is conducted at boiling temperature of the solvent used. This treatment enables the following chemosorption of the copolymer and is the basis for enhanced chemical stability and durability of the final sorbent material. Washing of the silanised support, e. g. silica gel, for removal of unreacted silane is done by multiple extraction with organic solvents (ethanol, acetone, toluene, dioxane).
  • organic solvents ethanol, acetone, toluene, dioxane
  • Polymerisation of the copolymer composition is performed by polymerisation in solution of an organic solvent for a period of 2 to 8 h at the boiling temperature of the solvent or in aqueous solution (emulsion polymerisation) with an emulgator and in the presence of an initiator for radical polymerisation.
  • Suitable initiators comprise benzoyl peroxide, potassium peroxodisulfate as a water soluble initiator, ammonium persulfate, etc.
  • a 5-20% solution of copolymer is used.
  • a mass ratio of silica gel matrix and solution of 1:3-6 is also preferred. Finally unreacted material is removed and the composite material is recovered and dried.
  • the sorbent material according to the invention is useful in separation processes, enhancing the ease of handling and the speed of these processes.
  • the substances to be separated are nucleic acids and/or proteins.
  • a conventionally used chromatographic column or cartridge can be filled, at least partially, with the sorbent material of the invention.
  • the sorbent material of the invention behaves similar to other solid chromatographic supports so that the methods for filling chromatographic columns or cartridges can be used in an analogous manner.
  • the support for carrying out chromatographic separations can also be provided in the form of a membrane-like item comprising the sorbent material of the invention, wherein the sorbent material is embedded in a polymeric matrix such as a nylon membrane. Also other membrane materials which are used in preparation, isolation or separation of biomolecules can be used as matrix for embedding a sorbent material of the present invention.
  • a chromatographic material of the invention it is advantageous to provide the sorbent material according to the invention in bulk or a chromatographic column or cartridge or membrane-like device together with filter materials, reagents and/or buffers or other devices or chemicals for performing fast sample preparations and chromatographic separations.
  • This item can especially be provided in form of a kit or a miniaturized device in form of chips or microreactors.
  • the chromatographic separation is not limited in its scale. It can be used in any chromatographic operation for separation, isolation, identification, purification and/or detection of biomolecules, in particular nucleic acids, in preparative or analytical scale.
  • the present invention provides a product with advanced sorption properties that allows to use this product for chromatography of biopolymers according to the object of the invention.
  • the process of the invention leads to a sorbent material with high binding capacity towards proteins and minimal non-specific sorption of nucleic acids, which is accomplished by using copolymers having complementary functional groups.
  • the inventive process allows manufacturing of a sorbent with adjusted hydrophilic properties having high mechanical stability and very good hydrodynamic characteristics.
  • the sorbent has been obtained similar to example 1, but with a polymer composition without component [M] (2-hydroxyethylmethacrylate).
  • the sorbent has been obtained similar to example 3, but with a polymer composition without component [M] (methacrylic acid).
  • silanized silica 10 g of macroporous silica gel previously dried in vacuo at 200° C. for 3 h having an average pore diameter of 300 A are treated with a boiling solution of dimethylvinylchlorosilane corresponding to example 1.
  • the thus obtained silanized silica will be transferred into a three bottlenecked flask with a stirrer, a thermometer and a reflux condenser.
  • To the flask 40 ml toluene, 3 ml chlorovinyl benzene, 0.4 ml divinylbenzene, 0.4 ml allylic alcohol and 0.30 g benzoil peroxide will be added.
  • the polymerization is conducted for 6 h at 102° C. The further treatment will be achieved corresponding to example 1.
  • the sorbent has been obtained similar to example 5, but with a polymer composition without component [M] (allylic alcohol).
  • the ready obtained silica gel was grinded, fractionated and analysed for pore size distribution both by mercury porometry (according to DIN 66 133 (1993)) and BET-method (according to ISO 9277). These analyses showed a preferential pore size in two classes of 5 nm (appr. 85%) and 28 nm (appr. 15%) and a sorption volume of 0.7 cm 3 /g.
  • silica gel sorbent was prepared as in example 7, with following variations:
  • the porogrammes obtained by testing the sorbents based on the macroporous silica gel show the distribution of the pores in differential and integral manner and allow to determine the medium pore size of the sorbent as well as the effective thickness of the polymeric layer, which is 5-7.5 nm.
  • the kit contains all necessary reagents for lysis of cells or tissue and genomic DNA purification.
  • the resulting DNA is suitable for most enzymatic reactions (restriction digests, PCR, sequencing etc.).
  • DNA flows through the column during a short, one-step purification procedure.
  • kits are stable at room temperature during shipment. After arrival store the kit at +2° C. to +8° C. Columns may be stored at room temperature.
  • Buffer G1 10 vials blue
  • Buffer G2 10 vials blue
  • each for 5 isolations Nexttec clean-columns 50 columns
  • the kit contains all necessary reagents for lysis of bacterial cells and DNA purification. It is approved for many Gram( ⁇ ) as well as Gram(+) bacteria. The resulting DNA is suitable for most enzymatic reactions (restriction digests, PCR, sequencing etc.).
  • DNA flows through the column during a short, one-step purification procedure.
  • kit components are stable at room temperature during shipment. After arrival store RNase solution at ⁇ 20° C. The other kit components must be stored at +2° C. to +8° C. Nexttec clean-columns may be stored at room temperature.
  • Buffer B1 (basis buffer) 5 vials (white), each for 10 isolations Buffer B2 5 vials (white), each for 10 isolations Buffer B3 5 vials (white), each for 10 isolations Nexttec clean-columns 50 columns RNase solution 1 vial (white), for 50 isolations
  • BSA bovine serum albumin
  • Salt retention was measured using copper sulphate (CuSO 4 ) as a model salt.
  • a solution of this salt in water results in a blue coloured liquid.
  • the optical density of the solution is linearly depending on the CuSO 4 concentration.
  • the concentration of CuSO 4 in both solutions was then calculated using a linear regression resulting from a standard curve of different CuSO 4 concentrations in water.
  • the applied amount of CuSO 4 was set at 100% and the eluted amount of CuSO 4 was recalculated in % of the applied amount. The difference between both values gives the salt retention in %.
  • the lysate contains low molecular weight compounds, proteins (peptides), nucleic acids and other compounds.
  • the concentration of DNA before (crude lysate) and after (eluate) passing a sorbent containing column was measured using PicoGreen, a fluorescent dye, which binds only to doublestranded DNA, according to the manufacturer's instructions (Molecular Probes c/o Invitrogen).
  • PicoGreen a fluorescent dye, which binds only to doublestranded DNA, according to the manufacturer's instructions (Molecular Probes c/o Invitrogen).
  • PicoGreen a fluorescent dye, which binds only to doublestranded DNA

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