Ghoul
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What are the losses encountered when filtering though? Doesn't the filter hold back a lot of the solution? Even .25 ml held up absorbed into the filter would be significant no? Have you measured the before/after volume after filtering say a 2ml reconstitution solution?
That's an excellent question. From what I've found a typical 25mm syringe filter has a .05ml hold up volume.
13mm has a .01ml hold up volume.
Also important to ensure the filter uses a "low protein adhesion" membrane.
Finally, doing an "air purge" into the vial will push most retained liquid out of the filter.
Since smaller aggregates act a "seeds", attracting more peptide to build themselves, you're also likely preserving more unaggregated peptide than losing in the tiny amount of solution retention.
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