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Human Blood Plasma The goal of plasma purification and processing is to extract specific materials that are present in blood, and use them for restoration and repair. There are several components that make up blood plasma, one of which is the protein albumin. Albumin is a highly water-soluble protein with considerable structural stability. It serves as a transportation device for materials such as hormones, enzymes, fatty acids, metal ions, and medicinal products. It is also used for therapeutic purposes, being essential in restoration and maintenance of circulating blood volume in imperative situations such as severe trauma or surgery. Due to the lack of room for error, extremely pure samples that are lacking impurities needs to be at hand in good amount. Look up plasma in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Albumin can refer to ovalbumin, the principal protein in egg white albumins, a group of proteins including serum albumin and together constituting roughly 60% of the protein in blood plasma. ...
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Traditionally, the Cohn process incorporating cold ethanol fractionation has been used for albumin purification. However, chromatographic methods for separation started being adopted in the early 1980’s. Developments were ongoing in the time period between when Cohn fractionation started being used(1946) and when chromatography started being used(1983). In 1962, the Kistler & Nistchmann process was created which was a spinoff of the Cohn process. 1983 was when chromatographic processes began to take shape. In the 1990’s, the Zenalb and the CSL Albumex processes were created which incorporated chromatography with a few variations. Pictured is a sophisticated gas chromatography system. ...
The goal of the Cohn process is to extract and recover albumin from blood plasma. ...
The general procedure followed when using chromatography was:
- The plasma would be buffer exchanged through column filtration and/or diafiltration
- One or more column chromatography steps
- A round of gel filtration
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This is a more efficient alternative than the Cohn process for four main reasons:
- Smooth automation and a relatively inexpensive plant was needed
- Easier to sterilize equipment and maintain a good manufacturing environment
- Chromatographic processes are less damaging to the albumin protein.
- A more successful albumin end result can be achieved
The albumin purity went up from about 95% to 98% and the yield increased from about 65% to 85%. Small percentage increases make a difference when talking about a sensitive measurement like purity. There is one big drawback in using chromatography which has to do with the economics of the process. Although the method was efficient from the processing aspect, acquiring the necessary equipment is a big task. Large machinery is necessary and for a long time, the availability of such equipment was not conducive. The components are a big more readily available now but it is still a work in progress. ...
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Bridging Methods Integrating traditional and modern methods is a useful way to process albumin.
There are three main steps that combine Cohn fractionation with chromatography.
The result is albumin with 9% lower aluminum levels with a processing time that is almost twice as fast.
Although it was hard to make chromatographic processing methods widely adopted, global expansion is a work in progress. Various blood components must be readily available at various medical treatment centers around the world. The Institute of Transfusion Medicine in Skopje, Macedonia is a plasma fractionation center in the Balkans. Their modernized albumin purification process consists of five steps:
- Starting material is plasma that has been pretreated by centrifugation
- A round of gel filtration is run on Sephadex G-25 Coarse
- Ion exchange on DEAE Sepharose CL-6B is run to bind the albumin to the column
- Albumin is eluted with a sodium acetate buffer
- Final polishing with gel filtration on Sephacryl S-200 HR
The end result is a highly pure and safe batch of albumin that is 100% non-pyrogenic, sterile, and free of active HIV virus. THe product purity is greater than 98% and the protein content is about 50.33g/L. The next goal is to further modernize the facility by scaling down production costs and increasing capacity. Centrifugation is a process that involves the use of the centrifugal force for the separation of mixtures. ...
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Non-chromatographic Processing Methods Other plasma processing methods exist, however they are not as versatile for the purpose of plasma processing. - Two-stage liquid extraction is done using polyethylene glycol (PEG)-phosphate aqueous two-phase systems, with a PEG rich top layer and a phosphate rich bottom layer. Although this method is somewhat useful for protein recovery, it does not work as well for recovery of other blood components.
- Membrane fractionation has the advantage of very minimal unwanted protein loss yet high removal of pathological plasma components. This method incorporates processes such as thermofiltration and applying pulsate flow. The latest two stage membrane system utilizes a high flow recirculation circuit that is effective for removal of LDL cholesterol. This procedure is useful when dealing with patients that have clogged arteries and other cardiovascular problems involving cholesterol.
- Batch adsorption is only conducive when dealing with smaller samples of plasma, typically 200mL or less. When large amounts of plasma are processed, there are larger elution volumes which require larger membranes for concentration, which leads to most of the target protein being lost on the membrane.
Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) refers to a class and range of lipoprotein particles, varying somewhat in their size and contents, which carry cholesterol in the blood and around the body, for use by various cells. ...
References British Journal of Anaesthesia
Scientific Electronic Library Online
Journal of Biological Chemistry
PubMed by National Library of Medicine and NIH
General Electric: Healthcare
Production of Human Albumin by Plasma Fractionation
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