Integrated Solid-Phase Synthesis and Purification of PEGylated Protein
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We describe an integrated method for solid-phase protein PEGylation and the purification of mono-PEGylated protein thus synthesized. Lysozyme was used as model protein in this study. Methoxy-polyethyleneglycol propionaldehyde (or m-PEG propionaldehyde) was first immobilized on a stack of microporous hydrophobic interaction membranes housed in a module. The membrane-bound m-PEG propionaldehyde was then contacted with lysozyme solution, which also contained sodium cyanoborohydride as a reducing agent. The PEGylated lysozyme thus synthesized remained attached to the membrane, whereas unreacted protein could easily be removed from the module. PEGylated protein was then eluted from the membrane in a partially purified form using salt-free buffer. Two separate steps were thus integrated into a single process: protein PEGylation, followed by purification of mono-PEGylated protein. This solid-phase method is likely to be suitable for PEGylating any protein because it is based on the immobilization of the activated PEG and not the protein being PEGylated.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".