Thesis final - after defense-7 - Jacobs University
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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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