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Human plasma contains various high molecular and low molecular proteins like Albumin, Globulin, Lipoproteins, Glycoproteins etc. To get a pure protein of interest , the organic solvents are very useful in the plasma protein purification steps. To achieve a low cost and reliable purification, the organic solvents are best useful in laboratory practice. Tri-choloroacetic acid and Acetone removes the Albumin and Globulin while Chloroform, methanol, isopropanol removes the Glycoproteins and Lipoproteins and would give the protein of interest in HIV-1 infected human plasma.

Purification of proteins from human plasma is a herculean task to perform 2-D gel electrophoresis. Human plasma contains nearly 70% albumin and globulin. The removal of such high abundance high molecular weight proteins is very difficult before performing 2-D gel electrophoresis. It becomes more difficult when we intent to investigate in infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS. We tried to the best of our efforts adopting various organic and non-organic based protocols based on various published papers. After failure of these protocols in results of 2-D gel-electrophoresis Aurum serum mini kit (Bio-Rad, USA) was adopted for plasma protein purification for performing 2-D gel electrophoresis. The low-abundance proteins were better resolved by 10% SDS-PAGE in 2-D gel-electrophoresis. Then,we extended the MALDI-TOF/TOF analysis of low-abundance proteins in human plasma by adopting the Aurum serum mini kit ( Bio-Rad, USA) for 2-D gel electrophoresis. Thus, we concluded that, depletion of high abundant proteins like albumin and globulin, the use of the Aurum serum mini kit (Bio-Rad, USA) is the protocol of choice to perform the 2-D gel electrophoresis of HIV-1 infected human plasma.

Human plasma contains high amount of abundant proteins like albumin and globulin. Normally, the proteins having potential for biomarkers are present in very low concentration in human plasma. To resolve the low concentration proteins in polyacrylamide gel, the removal of high abundant proteins from plasma are very essential. Polyethylene glycol is a nontoxic, water soluble synthetic polymer has several applications in chemical and biomedical industries. Various molecular variants of poly ethylene glycol is available and used in protein purification. The mechanism behind the use of high concentration of polyethylene glycol is it binds the molecule in more compact or interpenetrates forming a gel like network surrounding the molecule. Polyethylene glycol -6000 removes the high abundant proteins like Albumin and Globulin in the HIV -1 infected plasma samples and concentrates the low molecular weight proteins as the low molecular weight proteins are essential in biomarker study.

BACKGROUND The focus of the study was the comparative evaluation of HIV-1 infected plasma protein purification and 2-D gel electrophoresis protocols. OBJECTIVE Human plasma protein purification is a risk task to perform 2-D gel electrophoresis. Human plasma proteins contain nearly 70% albumin and globulin. The removal of such high abundance high molecular weight proteins is very difficult to perform 2-D gel electrophoresis METHODS To the best of our knowledge, we searched several research papers, developed and adopted various organic and non-organic based protocols for HIV-1 infected human plasma protein purification and various isoelectrofocusing protocols in 2-D gel electrophoresis RESULTS After failure in 2-D gel-electrophoresis performance by these protocols, Aurum serum mini kit (Bio-Rad, USA) was adopted for plasma protein purification for performing 2-D gel electrophoresis. The low-abundance proteins were better resolved by 10% SDS-PAGE in 2-D gel-electrophoresis. Then, we extended the MALDI-TOF/TOF analysis of low-abundance proteins in human plasma by adopting the Aurum serum mini kit ( Bio-Rad, USA) for 2-D gel electrophoresis. CONCLUSIONS Thus, we concluded that, the Aurum serum mini kit (Bio-Rad, USA) is best to perform the 2-D gel electrophoresis of HIV-1 infected human plasma by depleting the high abundant proteins like albumin and globulin