Example 8
Size-exclusion ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography (SE-UHPLC) analysis of rEqu c 1 wt and mutants was performed using Acquity BEH125 SEC column with dimensions of 4.6×150 mm, a pore size of 125 Å and a particle size of 1.7 μm (Waters) coupled with Acquity I-Class UPLC instrument (Waters). The column was equilibrated to running conditions with PBS (12 mM Na2HPO4, 3 mM NaH2PO4, 150 mM NaCl pH 7.3) as a mobile phase at flow rate 0.3 ml/min until the baseline was stable. Sample amounts of 2 μl from a 40 μM protein solution were injected. The chromatographic separation was carried out under isocratic flow with overall run time of 12 minutes and detection at 214 nm wavelength. For gel filtration standard, the BEH125 SEC Protein Standard Mix (Waters) was used. SE-UHPLC results show that the hypoallergen mutants (Triple 2, 3, and 4) exist mainly as monomers whereas wild type exists mainly as a dimer at the concentration of 40 μM (