Abstract:
The present invention pertains to a means and method for, from a mixture (cell culture) of cells, a medium component, and a useful substance, recovering the first two using a single process. Specifically, the present invention pertains to a polypeptide modified with a stimulus-responsive polymer, characterized in that the stimulus-responsive polymer responds to a stimulus to induce a change in the physical properties of the modified polypeptide overall, and the change is reversible or pseudo-reversible.
Abstract:
The present invention has a subject of desorbing a target substance under mild elusion conditions in affinity purification using a low molecular weight ligand. In the present invention, a polar auxiliary group is introduced to a site adjacent to the low molecular weight ligand to perturb a pKa value of a functional group in the low-molecular-weight ligand, thereby ionizing the low molecular weight ligand under mild pH conditions.
Abstract:
A cell culture apparatus (1) of the present invention comprises: a culture vessel (2) in which a cell culture medium comprising at least one of culture components composed of a conjugate with a stimuli-responsive polymer is stored and cells are cultured in the medium; a stimulus-applying mechanism (4) that applies a predetermined stimulus to the conjugate so as to induce a predetermined change of the stimuli-responsive polymer in response to the stimulus; and, a separation mechanism (5) that separates at least a part of the medium components except for the conjugate from the cell culture medium, while leaving the conjugate in the cell culture medium, on the basis of a property change of the stimuli-responsive polymer.
Abstract:
An adsorbent of the present invention includes a support; and a protein having an adsorption site for adsorbing a target substance, in which the protein includes a reversible binding site and a covalent binding site, the support includes an orientation-controlling site forming a reversible bond with the reversible binding site, and an immobilization site forming a covalent bond with the covalent binding site, the covalent binding site includes a nucleophilic functional group, and the immobilization site includes a functional group capable of reacting with the nucleophilic functional group by a nucleophilic substitution or a nucleophilic addition. Thus, it is possible to provide an adsorbent in which the utilization efficiency of the adsorption site of the protein is improved. As a result, the protein amount can be reduced, and the step for storing a culture solution can be simplified due to the faster purification step.
Abstract:
Objects of the disclosure are to provide a preanalysis treatment method for a sample, which can reduce mixing of a reagent into the sample, and to provide a sample pretreatment system capable of performing the preanalysis treatment method. An aspect of the present embodiment is a preanalysis treatment method for a sample, which includes a step A of mixing the sample and a reagent A containing a support and a reducing agent immobilized on the support, a step B of mixing the sample and a reagent B containing a support and an enzyme immobilized on the support, a step X-A of, after the step A, separating the reagent A and a supernatant from each other, and a step X-B of, after the step B, separating the reagent B and a supernatant from each other.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a biocompatible material improved in biocompatibility owing to adsorption of a peptide that has high adhesion with a resin and hardly separates from a surface of the resin, and a functional material including the biocompatible material. The biocompatible material includes a resin and a peptide adsorbed on the resin. The resin has methoxycarbonyl groups and methyl groups, and tryptophan or arginine accounts for 70% or more of amino acid residues in the peptide. As an alternative, the resin is a fluorinated resin, and 2,3,4,5,6-pentafluoro-phenylalanine, 3-(trifluoromethyl)alanine, serine, threonine, histidine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, phenylalanine, or aspartic acid accounts for 40% or more of the amino acid residues in the peptide. The functional material includes the biocompatible material, and a functional substance. The functional substance is held on a surface of the biocompatible material or is released from the surface of the biocompatible material.
Abstract:
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an automatic culture system whereby cells can be released from a vessel by a simple constitution and damage on the cells can be minimized In the automatic culture system according to the present invention, cells are cultured in a stimulus-responsive culture vessel and then the cells are released from the culture vessel by stimulating the culture vessel with a solution which is supplied from another vessel (see FIG. 3).
Abstract:
A stimulation-responsive material comprises regions of pH-responsive polymer and regions of temperature-responsive polymer, the regions existing at different locations.