Preparation of bovine serum albumin molecularly imprinted polymer by precipitation polymerization

Through precipitation polymerization approach, bovine serum albumin (BSA) molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) was synthesized with various reagents to ascertain the optimal synthesis condition. The optimized synthesis condition is methacrylic acid (MAA) as functional monomer, N,N′-methylenebisacrylamide (MBA) as crosslinker, template molecular/functional monomer/initiator ratio of 1:6:3, and K2S2O8/NaHSO3 initiator ratio of 1:2. BSA adsorption by synthesized MIP conformed to second-order kinetic adsorption equation and Langmuir adsorption isotherm. The maximum adsorption amount of MIP was 106.2 mg/g. Moreover, when the lysozyme (LYZ) was introduced as interfering adsorbate, the separation factor was up to 3.09, indicating that the MIP has a high affinity towards BSA.