1st Edition
Purification of Biotechnological Products A Focus on Industrial Applications
Chapter 1 Introduction
Adalberto Pessoa Jr and Beatriz Vahan Kilikian
Chapter 2 Purification processes: analytical methods and enzyme stability
Beatriz Vahan Kilikian, Adalberto Pessoa Jr., Guillermo Alfredo Picó and Mauricio Javier Braia
Chapter 3 Cell Disruption
Adalberto Pessoa Jr, Jorge Pereira and Francislene Andréia Hasmann
Chapter 4 Filtration and Centrifugation
Beatriz Vahan Kilikian
Chapter 5 Membrane Separation Processes
Alberto Cláudio Habert, Cristiano Piacsek Borges, Frederico de Araujo Kronemberger Helen Conceição Ferraz and Ronaldo Nobrega
Chapter 6 Protein Precipitation
Adalberto Pessoa Jr, Beatriz Vahan Kilikian and Adriana Célia Lucarini
Chapter 7 Liquid-liquid extraction in aqueous two-phase systems
Beatriz Vahan Kilikian, Telma Teixeira Franco, Jane S. R Coimbra, Antonio J. A. Meirelles, Adalberto Pessoa Jr and Adamu Muhammad Alhaji
Chapter 8 Introduction to chromatography
Beatriz Vahan Kilikian and Bibiana Beatriz Nerli
Chapter 9 Size exclusion chromatography
Ângela Maria Moraes, Paulo de Tarso Vieira e Rosa and Luciana Pellegrini Malpiedi
Chapter 10 Iion Exchange chromatography
Adalberto Pessoa Jr, Beatriz Farruggia and Fernanda Rodriguez
Chapter 11 Hydrophobic interaction chromatography
Francisco Maugeri Filho, Marcus Bruno Soares Forte and Oscar Mendieta-Taboada
Chapter 12 Affinity Chromatography
Tales A. Costa-Silva, Eliana Setsuko Kamimura, Francisco Maugeri Filho, Maria Teresa de Carvalho Pinto Ribela, Paolo Bartolini and Gisele Monteiro
Chapter 13 Adsorption chromatography in monolithic columns
Daniela Aparecida Marc, Lidija Urbas and Marcel Mafei Serracchiani
Chapter 14 Chromatography: expanded bed adsorption (EBA)
Beatriz Vahan Kilikian and Everaldo Silvino dos Santos
Chapter 15 Continuous Chromatography using a Simulated Moving Bed System
Cesar Costapinto Santana, Diana Cristina Silva de Azevedo and Alirio Egídio Rodrigues
Chapter 16 Chromatography scale-up
Adalberto Pessoa Jr, Beatriz Vahan Kilikian and Diana Romanini
Chapter 17 Crystallization
Roberto Guardani, Marcelo Martins Seckler and Marco Giulietti (in memoriam)
Chapter 18 Distillation
Maria Elena Santos Taqueda and José Luis Pires Camacho
Chapter 19 Plasmid Purification
Duarte Miguel Prazeres
Chapter 20 Purification of monoclonal antibodies
Inês F. Pinto, M. Raquel Aires-Barros and Ana M. Azevedo
Chapter 21 Peptides of biotechnological interest: general concepts, production, purification and chemical characterization
M. Terêsa Machini, Kamila de Sousa Gomes and Cleber Wanderlei Liria
Chapter 22 Integration of steps in the production of biotechnological products
Adalberto Pessoa Jr and Beatriz Vahan Kilikian
Biography
Dr. Adalberto Pessoa Jr., Full professor at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biochemical-Pharmaceutical Technology Department, of the University of São Paulo and Visiting Professor at King’s College London, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science. He has experience in fermentation technology and in the purification processes of biotechnological products of interest to the pharmaceutical and food industries.
Dr. Beatriz Vahan Kilikian, nowadays retired, she was Associate Professor at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, from 1983 to 2012. She has experience in microrganisms cultivation and in the purification processes of biotechnological products of interest to the pharmaceutical, chemical and food industries.
Dr. Paul Frederick Long Full Professor of Biotechnology at King's College London and Visiting International Research Professor at the University of São Paulo. Prof Long is a microbiologist by training and his research uses a combination of bioinformatics, laboratory and field studies to discover new medicines from nature, particularly from the marine environment.
