Cibacron Blue F3G-A Attached Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Particles for Specific Albumin Adsorption

Abstract

Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVAL) particles (average size: 50 μm) were prepared in the present study by chemical crosslinking of PVAL with glutaraldehyde in an organic dispersion oil phase. Cibacron Blue F3G-A was attached to these hydrophilic PVAL particles. Bovine serum albumin (BSA) adsorption onto these dye-attached PVAL particles from aqueous solutions containing different amounts of BSA in three different salts (i.e., NaCl, CaCl₂, and NaSCN) at different pH and ionic strengths was investigated in batch reactors. The maximum adsorption capacity (about 35 mg BSA/g dye-attached PVAL) was observed around pH 6.0 in a medium containing NaCl with an ionic strength of 0.01. Nonspecific BSA adsorption on plain PVAL particles was almost zero. About 90% of the adsorbed BSA was desorbed by using a 0.5 M NaSCN desorption medium for 1 hour.