In this article, the partitioning behavior of C-phycocyanin (C-PC) in aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS) with different component was investigated to evaluate the applicability of ATPS for extracting high purity of C-PC without chromatography. Under the optimized conditions (pH = 6; PEG-2000, 16 %, w/w; potassium sodium tartrate 21 %, w/w), a maximum purity of 5.01 was achieved after the whole separation process and the yield of the C-PC was 76.94 %.

Learning project instruction is a newly developed teaching method, which can help students to confirm the learning goals and knowledge points, stimulate their interest and autodidactic potential thus enhance the teaching effect. This work proposed the application of the method in biochemistry teaching of municipal engineering graduate.