Wednesday, November 7, 2007
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Characterization of Insulin Association Sates Using Laser Light Scattering

Maritza Muņiz - Maisonet, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52240 and John M. Wiencek, Chemical and Bichemical Engineering Department, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52240.

Polypeptides can form a wide variety of aggregate states in solution depending on pH and salt concentrations. Repulsive electrostatic interactions as well as non-specific attractive interactions between polypeptides present serious challenges to discriminating aggregate states in solution. This poster discusses the use of batch light scattering methods to measure and quantify aggregates of a proprietary polypeptide as a function of ionic strength. Nonlinear regression methods can provide a good estimate of both interactions as well as aggregation equilibrium provided data of sufficient resolution are available.