Process for isolation and stabilisation of key intermediates for high efficiency refolding of recombinant proteins

Abstract

A process for obtaining a refolded recombinant protein from an unfolded recombinant protein present in inclusion bodies isolated from wet cells harvested from a cell culture is provided. The process includes a) reducing the inclusion bodies by treating the inclusion bodies with a reducing buffer, to obtain reduced inclusion bodies; b) obtaining stable first intermediate state I1 of the unfolded recombinant protein present in the reduced inclusion bodies; and c) refolding the stable first intermediate state I1 of the unfolded recombinant protein, present in the reduced inclusion bodies, in refolding buffer to obtain a second intermediate state I2 that folds to produce the refolded recombinant protein.

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