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Superresolution Chromatography
E.L.Kosarev - P.L.Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems, RAS
http://www.kapitza.ras.ru/people/kosarev/home.htm
K.O.Muranov - N.M.Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, RAS
http://kmuranov.euro.ru
Peaks’ overlapping problem
Peaks overlapped form the joint peak
Retention time
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Imperfects of parametric deconvolution
• Supposition - Peak shape can be described analytically (Gaussian, Lorenz, etc.)
• Parametric deconvolution needs:– peak position
– peak wide
– peak amplitude.
• Unknown peak characteristic causes an error.
For instance, two peaks were identified instead of three
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Retention time
Imperfects of parametric
deconvolution
Peak broadeningbroadening and column voidingcolumn voiding
The main factors Diffusion Non-specific interaction System overdampening (irreversible adsorption,
filter contamination, plunger damage, etc.)
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Problems:
• the shape of a real chromatography peak could not be approximated exactly with any function
• the parametric technique cannot give reliable results
We suppose:
the problem of overlapping peaks’ separation could be accurately solved
with the use of a nonparametric
method
Nonparametric method
• The peak's shape is determined directly from the separation of an individual compound and can be called the point spread function of a chromatographic column
• If the shapes of these peaks are the same throughout the entire working range of the device, then chromatogram is a distribution convolution with the peak of this shape
• the point spread function includes all factors influenced the separation
Nonparametric method
• The decomposing a complex spectrum into the same components is achieved by solving an integral convolution equation
• For this equation: – the input data is the chromatogram– the convolution operator kernel is the point spread
function of the chromatograph column
Analysis of chromatography separation data with the
RECOVERY software package
Method
• A protein mixture of known composition (bovine serum albumin monomer, dimer, and trimer) was separated by gel filtration for obtaining of heavily overlapping peaks.
• The data was processed with the use of the RECOVERY software package
• The result was compared with the finer separation data
obtained with the use of the HPLC.
BSA chromatography and point spread function determination
A - Elution profile of bovine serum albumin (BSA).
The blue arrow indicates unresolved peak
Red dashed lines mark the time interval when the BSA monomer fraction was collected
B - Elution profile of the collected fraction
Absence of unresolved peak Strongly pronounced a peak
asymmetry
Recovering of the chromatographic separation
data
• A - the source BSA chromatogram;
• B - point-spread function;
• C - recovering result of the chromatographic separation data with the RECOVERY software package.
The RECOVERY result vs. HPLC separation
A - data recovered with nonparametric approach
B - Elution profile of HPLC separation (TSK G2000 SW Spherogel, 10mm X 600 mm, flowrate - 0.5ml/min)
• Both Recovery software package and HPLC found the BSA monomer, dimer and trimer in protein mixture
• Recovery shows the more precision result
Peak width and whole column limit
- under investigation
• Separation of the rat eye lens crystallins (magenta)– 10 kD - 1.5 MD
limit• Peak width of the
standard proteins (blue) Retention time, sec
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Conclusion:
• the proposed method fundamentally improves the quality of the chromatographic separation– RECOVERY software package for the gel filtration data
significantly increased the resolution of this method and exceeded the quality of the separation obtained with the HPLC technique
• new possibilities are achieved through reasonable processing of the measured data with no complication in the instrumentation– cost of the used instrument complex for gel filtration
($1,000) is roughly 15-20 times lower than that for the HPLC setup ($20, 000).