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Table 1 Reported studies on the purification of proteins with biomolecules and functionalized MNPs

From: State of the art on the separation and purification of proteins by magnetic nanoparticles

Composites of core–shell

Size (nm)

Technique of synthesis

Protein target

References

Covalent immobilization of protein A onto Glu activated Fe3O4@SiO2 MNPs (Fe3O4@SiO2 core–shell MNPs/proteinA)

 ~ 72

Solvothermal

Anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody (anti-EGFR mAb)

Hou et al. [53]

GNTA-SPION (3-glycidoxypropyl-trimet hoxy-silane Nα,Nα-bis(carboxymethyl)-l-lysine coupled superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles)

6.5

Solvothermal

Recombinant proteins (protein A and α-lysozyme D1.3scFv antibody fragment from Bacillus megaterium cultivation)

Gädke et al. [44]

SD-SPION (spray-dried GNTA-SPION)

6.6

GNTA-SPION (3-glycidoxypropyl-trimet hoxy-silane Nα,Nα-bis(carboxymethyl)-l-lysine coupled superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles)

8–10

Non-aqueous sol–gel method

Histidine-tagged protein A (from Bacillus megaterium)

Gädke et al. [43]

Magnetic particles of azocasein-iron composite (mAzo)

–

Solvothermal

Trypsin (from tilapia fish crude extract)

Alves et al. [1]

Biofunctional magnetic nanoparticles bound to iminobiotin (Fe3O4/2-iminobiotin)

30

Solvothermal

Avidin (from treated egg-white solution)

Sun et al. [104]

Mesoporous silica coated magnetic microspheres with perfluorooctyl moieties on interior pore walls (Fe3O4@mSiO2-C8F17)

346

Surfactant templated sol–gel reaction

Fluorescent-labeled N-linked glycans

Zhao and Deng [141] 

Glucose functionalized magnetic graphene hydrophilic nanocomposite (MagG/Au/Glu)

15

Solvothermal

Glycopeptides (from human serum)

Feng et al. [39]

Biotinylated poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (pNIPAAm)- modified AuNPs mixed with pNIPAAm-coated iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles (mNPs)

(pNIPAAm- AuNPs + pNIPAAm-mNPs)

pNIPAAm- AuNPs: 23 nm

UUsing laboratory syringe pumps

Biomarker protein streptavidin (in spiked human plasma)

Nash et al. [78]

pNIPAAm-mNPs: 10 nm

Bifunctional Au–Fe3O4 Nanoparticles (thiol modified Fe3O4 NPs mixed with Au NPs)

–

–

Arginine kinase (from cell lysate)

Bao et al. [6]

Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) of Fe3O4 immobilized with the ligand-binding domain (LBD) of estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) (LBD-ERα-immobilized MNPs)

142.4

Co-precipitation

Phytoestrogens (standard 17β-estradiol (E2)) in plant extracts (Asparagus racemosus)

Busayapongchai and Siri [13]

Magnetic glyconanoparticles (Supramolecular complexation between Fe3O4@Polyethylene Glycol@Adamantane and β-cyclodextrins conjugated with hepta-mannose (β-CD-(Man)7) and conjugated with poly(mannose) (β-CD-p(Man)280) (Fe3O4@PEG@AD + β-CD (Man)7/β-CD-p(Man)280)

22

Thermal decomposition

Concanavalin A (ConA) lectin (from a mixture of ConA and peanut agglutinin (PNA))

Oz et al. [82]

Magnetic nanoparticles functionalized with antisense oligonucleotides (Fe3O4@SiO2–COOH NPs)

14.6 ± 1.1

–

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) and intracellular proteins

Gessner et al. [46]

α-Glucosidase functionalized magnetic nanoparticles (αG-MNPs)

20

–

α-Glucosidase inhibitors (from Dioscorea opposita Thunb peel extract)

Chen et al. [21]