“…It had already been pointed out that some properties of proteins can show extremely high resolution in purification operations (e.g., charge and affinity), whereas others show much less resolution (e.g., molecular weight). The main thrust was focused on the development of novel techniques such as cross-flow electrofiltration, 3,4 reversed micelles, 5 -7 centrifugal partitioning, 8 membrane chromatography, 9,10 new affinity ligands, 11,12 aqueous two-phase partitioning 13 -16 and continuous processing (e.g., CARE). 17,18 It was also stressed that the development of new and efficient separation processes had to be based on more efficiently exploiting differences in the actual physicochemical properties of the protein product (surface charge/titration curve, surface hydrophobicity, molecular weight, biospecificity, pI, stability) compared to those of contaminant components in the crude broth.…”