Korea Bone Bank Co., Ltd.

Yon-Rak Choi

Ju-Woong Jang

Young-Bock Shim

Yeong-Schick Kim

Hong-Hee Jung

The present invention relates to a method for purifying a protein belonging to the TGF-&#x3b2;, superfamily, preferably BMP, and more preferably BMP-2. According to the invention, the number of purification steps is reduced and the purification process is simplified, compared to the conventional BMP-2 purification method. Thus, the time required for purification can be shortened and the cost can be reduced. In addition, the invention solves the problem that as the time for purification increases and the number of purification steps increases, BMP-2 is degraded by protease or lost during purification steps, resulting in a decrease in the final yield of BMP-2. Thus, the invention increases the final yield of BMP-2. In addition, according to the invention, although the number of purification steps is reduced, BMP-2 having high purity is obtained in high yield by optimizing and using filtrations and chromatographies, and columns, types and concentrations of buffers, and a cut-off size of membrane used in diafiltration, which are different from those of the conventional BMP-2 purification method.

Method for purifying bone morphogenetic protein

The present invention relates to a process for forming a porous poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) scaffold using a pore-forming agent, comprising: mixing PVA with the pore-forming agent to form micropores in the PVA scaffold and using an easily decomposable pore-forming agent after the formation of the pores to improve convenience and reduce the processing time in manufacturing the porous PVA scaffold as well as to enable a pore size and porosity to be selected. A process for forming a porous PVA scaffold using a pore-forming agent according to the present invention includes heating to melt the PVA, cooling the melted PVA and mixing the PVA with a heat-decomposable pore-forming agent, repeating the freezing/thawing of the mixed PVA to cure the PVA mixture, and stirring the cured PVA mixture with a hydrochloric acid solution at a high temperature of 65&#xb0; C. or more to produce foam.

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Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Yon-Rak Choi