Separation of cytidine triphosphate from Saccharomyces cerevisiae broth by anion exchange poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) composite cryogel embedded with SiO2 nanoparticles
An anion exchange poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) composite cryogel embedded with SiO2 nanoparticles was prepared by cryo-polymerization followed by graft polymerization with monomer N
N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate. This cryogel was used to isolate cytidine triphosphate from Saccharomyces cerevisiae transformation broth. Chromatographic separation was performed with 0.01 mol·L-1 HCl as running buffer together with 0.02 mol·L-1 and 0.1 mol·L-1 NaCl solutions (prepared in running buffer) as two-step elution liquids. Cytidine triphosphate purity was analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography. Cytidine triphosphate with high purity of 97.2% and recovery of 82.5% was obtained. Compared with other conventional methods
the present separation process was simple and effective
and could be used in separation of nucleotides from microbial fermentation or transformation feedstocks.