The integration of expanded bed adsorption
(EBA) with hydrophobic
charge-induction chromatography (HCIC) affords a promising new technology
to capture antibody from the complex feedstock. New EBA resin T-ABI
was prepared with hydrophobic charge-induction ligand 5-aminobenzimidazole
(ABI) and used to separate monoclonal antibody (mAb) from CHO cell
culture broth. The static and dynamic adsorption behaviors of hIgG
and mAb were investigated, and the typical properties of pH dependence
and salt tolerance were found. High dynamic binding capacities at
10% breakthrough (18.1–21.4 mg/mL resin) were obtained even
for high operation velocities (711–1203 cm/h) in an expanded
bed. By optimization of loading pH, elution pH, and expansion factor,
hIgG could be separated from the protein mixture (2 mg/mL hIgG and
10 mg/mL bovine serum albumin) with high efficiency. Finally, mAb
was separated directly from the CHO cell culture broth with T-ABI
EBA under optimized conditions (loading at pH 7.0, elution at pH 4.0
or 4.5, expansion factor of 2.0), and the purity reached 93.7–97.7%
with the recovery of 72.6–79.4%. The results indicated that
T-ABI resin was suitable to capture hIgG from the complicated feedstock.
New separation process with T-ABI EBA showed a promising potential
for antibody purification with high productivity and process efficiency,
which combined the advantages of HCIC and EBA.