Antibiotic ligands peptidic derivatives

As early as 1951, affinity chromatography was used for the separation of anti-hapten antibodies (Campbell et aL, 1951). Shortly afterwards, Lerman (1953) developed a similar method for purification of tyrosinase. The recent applications of affinity chromatography are too numerous to be detailed here, but broadly speaking, the method has been used for separation/purification of proteins, sugars and their derivatives, nucleic acids, nucleotides and their derivatives, amino acids and peptides, and various other systems that include thiols and disulfides (ligands-thiols or disulfides or organomercurial supports), steroidal hormones, coenzymes, vitamins, morphine and related drugs, antibiotics, protein receptors, and antibodies. 

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