Development of wide-pore CLEAR supports for applications involving biological macromolecules

摘要

The CLEAR supports were originally developed for solid-phase synthesis. In this study, two wide-pore versions of the resins were prepared by radical suspension polymerization using toluene as the porogen. Trimethylolpropane ethoxylate (14/3 EO/OH) triacrylate was used as the cross-linking agent. Resins of two different porosities were synthesized. The permeability to biological macromolecules was investigated by size-exclusion chromatography, using the resin beads as the stationary phase. One of the resins was able to retard thyroglobulin (669 kDa) while the other, prepared with a lower amount of porogen, showed a lower fractionation range (1–60 kDa).