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Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 36, 2639-2650, Copyright © 1995 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Method for removal of surface-active impurities and calcium from conjugated bile salt preparations: comparison with silicic acid chromatography

S Del Vecchio, JD Ostrow, P Mukerjee, HT Ton-Nu, CD Schteingart, AF Hofmann, C Cerre and A Roda
Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.

Some commercial preparations of common natural conjugated bile salts contain impurities (e.g., amines, lipids, and calcium) that are likely to affect their physicochemical properties. A method was developed for purifying commercial preparations of sodium salts of glycine- and taurine-conjugated bile acids. The method consists of passage of a dilute aqueous solution of the sodium bile salt through three columns in sequence: graphitized carbon, a hydrophobic bonded octadecylsilane (C18) cartridge, and a calcium-chelating resin. The final solution was extracted with chloroform, and the purified bile salt was then isolated by freeze-drying, with a yield of 65-75%. Each bile salt purified by this method was compared with the corresponding bile salt purified by conventional adsorption chromatography on a silicic acid column, using a mixture of methanol and chloroform as eluant. Purity was assessed by visible spectra, by surface tension measurements (using the maximum bubble-pressure method and a Wilhelmy wire method), by chloroform extractability of impurities in the conjugated bile acid, by liposome solubilization, and by chemical analysis of the calcium content. Both purification methods removed colored and surface-active impurities, but the new method was always as or more effective than silicic acid column chromatography. Calcium ion, present in commercial bile salts in concentrations up to 16 mmol/mol bile salt, was removed completely by the three-column method, but not by silicic acid chromatography. The new method is thus a simple, rapid, and efficient procedure for purification of the sodium salts of glycine- and taurine-conjugated bile acids for physicochemical measurements, in which elimination of surface-active impurities and polyvalent cations is desired.
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