“…1,2 There is also growing interest in the use of precipitation for the initial purification (capture) of monoclonal antibody (mAb) products due to the significant increase in product titer that have been achieved over the past two decades. 3,4 mAbs have been successfully precipitated using cold ethanol and CaCl 2, 5 polyethylene glycol (PEG), 6 PEG and CaCl 2, 7 CaCl 2 and caprylic acid, 8 PEG and low pH 9 , zinc chloride (ZnCl 2 ) and PEG, 10 and elastin-like polypeptides (ELP) 11,12 among others.…”