title: Design of adsorptive columns for specific pathogen removal: application to staphylococcal enterotoxin B.
abstract: The removal of pathogens such as toxins, viruses, bacteria, and prions in human blood, mammalian cell culture media, fermentation broths, food items, and water streams has gained increasing importance in ensuring product safety and in combatting acts of terrorism. Adsorption processes can play an important role in removing such pathogens from solution without affecting other desirable components. Adsorptive columns that can remove specific families of pathogens would need to achieve a reduction of several logs in pathogen concentration. This requirement is much more stringent than the normal yield requirements associated with adsorptive separations aimed at product recovery and purification in a process stream. This paper considers the design of an adsorptive column aimed at reducing the concentration of infectious agents from a known volume of solution by several logs in a fixed amount of time. The general rate (GR) model of chromatography is used in the analysis, including all major transport and kinetic steps in the adsorption process. The theory, with no adjustable parameters, is shown to predict with great accuracy the effect of residence time on the log removal of staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) from solution using an affinity resin with a small peptide (YYWLHH) that has been found to bind specifically to this toxin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1017 Main Campus Drive, Centennial Campus, Partner's Building I, Suite 3200, Box 7006, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7006, USA.
authors.forename: Guangquan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ruben G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Carbonell
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D001671:Biochemistry / Q000379:methods*; D001688:Biological Products / Q000592:standards* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods; D001798:Blood Proteins / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000592:standards; D003666:Decontamination / Q000379:methods*; D004203:Disinfection / Q000379:methods*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004768:Enterotoxins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D007700:Kinetics; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry; D014118:Toxins, Biological / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D001688:Biological Products; D001798:Blood Proteins; D004768:Enterotoxins; D010455:Peptides; D014118:Toxins, Biological; C031818:enterotoxin B, staphylococcal