Molecular Cloning Fourth Edition, A Laboratory Manual, by Michael R. Green and Joseph Sambrook

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Enrichment of Fully Packaged Virions in Column-Purified rAAV Preparations by Iodixanol Gradient Centrifugation Followed by Anion-Exchange Column Chromatography

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This rapid and efficient method to prepare highly purified rAAVs, first described by Zolotukhin et al. (2002), is based on binding of negatively charged rAAV capsids to an anion-exchange resin that is pH dependent. The isoelectric point (pI) of different rAAV capsids may be slightly different, and as such, the pH of Buffer A may need to be optimized for new serotypes (capsids) to ensure an overall negative charge and thus efficient binding to the anion-exchange resin. Because rAAV capsids are stable in a wide range of pH values, cation-exchange chromatography can also be used. In fact, tandem cation-anionexchange chromatography has been used for purification of rAAVs without an ultracentrifugation step (Debelak et al. 2000). However, it is important to understand that chromatographic methods are not suitable for complete elimination of empty capsids from rAAV vector preparations. The elution buffer composition can be optimized for the type of ion used and pH to maximize the separation of empty from full capsids (Qu et al. 2007). The conditions described here are effective for purification of rAAV1, 2, 5, rh8, and 8 vectors (Debelak et al. 2000; Gao et al. 2000; Zolotukhin et al. 2002; Qu et al. 2007).


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