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Chapter 3<br />

3.2.3.3. Influence of the base support chemistries and average protein properties<br />

3.2.3.3.1. Average hydrophobicity (AH)<br />

Average hydrophobicity is the classical parameter based on the overall hydrophobic residues<br />

of a protein. It was reported before that in addition to hydrophobic surface residues, it is<br />

important to have a higher overall number of hydrophobic residues in the protein sequence for<br />

the stronger binding to the HIC adsorbents (62). However, the average hydrophobicity has<br />

been never investigated with the process proteomics approach. Hence, the three different<br />

hydrophobicity scales were used to calculate average hydrophobicity from the primary<br />

structures of the tabulated proteins (Tables 12-14). A statistically significant (r 2 =0.86, p <<br />

0.0001) linear relationship was reported between the average hydrophobicity and protein<br />

retention behavior on different base supports (Figure 24 A-C). In some cases, the proteins<br />

were reported to have similar average hydrophobicity values but differed with average surface<br />

hydrophobicity. This revealed that two proteins can have the same amount of total<br />

hydrophobic residues in the primary sequence but can differ with surface hydrophobic<br />

residues. The average hydrophobicity values for some proteins were similar; however their<br />

elution position was different from each other. In this case, the proteins with high ASH<br />

retained longer than the one with low ASH, although they have similar average<br />

hydrophobicity. The proteins such as B3-TP, and F1-TP retained longer during<br />

chromatography than A4-TP and E3-TP, respectively. These results confirmed that ASH has a<br />

decisive role in protein retention during chromatography. The overall values of average<br />

hydrophobicity revealed that the scale of Miyazawa-Jernigan was differed with 1 and 2 digits<br />

to the scales of Cowan-Whittaker and Tanford, respectively. The reason for this difference<br />

could be the various direct and indirect approaches, while determining the hydrophobicity<br />

indices for individual amino acids (25, 92, 95). The mentioned scales were calculated with<br />

quite different approaches and often correlated very poorly (124). The global averages of the<br />

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