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ArticleJournal of separation science2025

Isolation of Urinary Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) via Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography Using a Nylon-6 Capillary-Channeled Polymer (C-CP) Fiber Column.

William F Pons, R Kenneth Marcus

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Article in Journal of separation science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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William F PonsDepartment of Chemistry, Biosystems Research Complex, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA.
R Kenneth MarcusDepartment of Chemistry, Biosystems Research Complex, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4276-5805

Funding

Capillary-channeled polymers fibers and films - A platform technology for exosome isolation and analyticsR01GM141347 · NIGMS · CLEMSON UNIVERSITY · PI MARCUS, RICHARD KENNETH · 2022 to 2025
$1.7M
National Science Foundation CHE-2107882NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM141347NIH HHS 1RO1GM141347-01A1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exosomes, a subset of extracellular vesicles (EVs) ranging in size from 30 to 150 nm, are of significant interest for biomedical applications such as diagnostic testing and therapeutics delivery. Biofluids, including urine, blood, and saliva, contain exosomes that carry biomarkers reflective of their host cells. However, isolation of EVs is often a challenge due to their size range, low density, and high hydrophobicity. Isolations can involve long separation times (ultracentrifugation) or result in impure eluates (size exclusion chromatography, polymer-based precipitation). As an alternative to these methods, this study evaluates the first use of nylon-6 capillary-channeled polymer (C-CP) fiber columns to separate EVs from human urine via a step-gradient hydrophobic interaction chromatography method. Different from previous efforts using polyester fiber columns for EV separations, nylon-6 shows potential for increased isolation efficiency, including somewhat higher column loading capacity and more gentle EV elution solvent strength. The efficacy of this approach to EV separation has been determined by scanning electron and transmission microscopy, nanoparticle flow cytometry (NanoFCM), and Bradford protein assays. Electron microscopy showed isolated vesicles of the expected morphology. Nanoparticle flow cytometry determined particle densities of eluates yielding up to 5 × 10

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CaprolactamExtracellular VesiclesPolymersChromatography, LiquidHumansHydrophobic and Hydrophilic InteractionsParticle SizeCaprolactamnylon 6Polymerscapillary‐channeled polymerexosomesfibersisolationnano‐flow cytometrynylon‐6

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PMID39933961
PMCPMC11813829

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