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Chapter 3<br />

towards conformational changes and when it comes in contact of HIC surface, it will unfold<br />

or expose the internal surface in order to increase hydrophobic interactions and result in<br />

longer retention during chromatography (33, 62, 128).<br />

Figure 27: Represents the average flexibility calculated by Bhaskaran and Ponnuswamy’s<br />

scale. The protein average flexibility values of the three base supports were correlated with the<br />

respective salt concentrations where the fractions were collected. The error bars represent the<br />

standard deviations of the average flexibility values in each fraction. The statistical analysis<br />

revealed a significant correlation (r 2 = 0.80; p < 0.0001).<br />

It was also reported by Tanford that proteins with native conformations were completely<br />

inflexible and conformational entropy was zero. In contrast, the unfolded proteins have high<br />

flexibility towards conformational changes (25). This revealed that proteins with less<br />

flexibility had less conformational entropy and high stability. In this work, average flexibility<br />

was correlated with the retention of proteins derived from a host cell proteome. Some proteins<br />

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