“…As an alternative to protein A, resins with immobilized biomimetic ligands (Li et al, 1998;Roque et al, 2004;Teng et al, 1999) and mixed mode interaction resins (Boschetti et al, 2000;Schwartz et al, 2001;Subramanian, 2005) have become commercially available in recent years. Although Protein A resins are the leading choice for purification of MAbs, examples of non-affinity-based purification schemes for monoclonal antibodies have been discussed in the literature (Boschetti, 2001;Follman and Fahrner, 2004;Gagnon, 1996;Bak et al, 2007;Ghose et al, 2006;Lim et al, 1998;Vancan et al, 2002). Researchers have also investigated the possibility of increasing the productivity of MAb purification by combining primary recovery with protein A through the use of expanded bed chromatography (Ohashi et al, 2002;Thommes et al, 1996).…”