Mimetic ligand-based affinity purification of immune complexes and immunoconjugates.

We developed a simple purification method to purify alkaline phosphatase/anti-alkaline phosphatase IgG as immune complexes using mimetic affinity chromatography wherein the antibody was either a monospecific antibody, a bispecific antibody or a commercial polyclonal IgG conjugated with alkaline phosphatase (AP-IgG) covalently. The immune complexes or conjugates were efficiently bound on the mimetic Blue A6XL column and eluted under mild conditions (5-20 mM phosphate buffer). A similar strategy of purifying peroxidase/anti-peroxidase antibody complexes was also successfully demonstrated using the mimetic Red 3 column. Mimetic affinity chromatography thus appears to be a simple method to purify the desired monospecific or bispecific antibodies from the respective hybridomas and quadromas.