Agilent Oligonucleotide Chromatography Solutions

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Separation and Purification Your Way: siRNA to mRNA

Agilent recognizes the diversity of the oligonucleotide landscape, offering the optimal chemistry for robust resolution, reproducibility, and long column lifetime.

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Agilent Oligonucleotide Separation and Purification Guide

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Nucleic Acid Characterization

Agilent AdvanceBio Oligonucleotide columns feature high efficiency, 2.7 μm superficially porous Poroshell particles. Using technology exclusive to Agilent, we chemically modify the particles to make them exceedingly resistant to high pH mobile phases. We also bond them with an end-capped C18 phase that delivers excellent selectivity for oligonucleotides, with every batch of AdvanceBio Oligonucleotide media with a RNA resolution standard to ensure consistent performance.

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Small Oligonucleotide Characterization

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Ion-Pair Reversed Phase Purification

Agilent PLRP-S polymeric materials are an ideal choice for ion pair reversed-phase oligonucleotide purification. They are physically and chemically robust and therefore well suited to the conditions required.

Choosing the correct pore size for the length of oligonucleotide is important to optimize the binding capacity and overall oligonucleotide purification. Ability of very large molecules to access pores may be hindered in the small pore sizes commonly seen on the market. PLRP-S addresses this through a wide range of pore size options, from 100Å all the way up to 1000Å or 4000Å. Though, smaller pore size particles have higher internal surface area, if the molecule is too large to fit into the pores, the loading capacity will be compromised.

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Purification Your Way!

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Over the last several decades, there has been continued interest and focus on new therapeutic modalities for the regulation of protein expression at the RNA, and even DNA level. The purification of oligonucleotides (ONs) can be particularly challenging with the high similarity of API and impurities.

Agilent recognizes the unique challenges for each oligonucleotide API, offering a range of chemistries, pore size, and dimensions to meet your needs.

Anion Exchange Purification

With their 1000 Å and 4000 Å totally porous particles, Agilent PL-SAX columns are uniquely suited for the purification of therapeutic oligonucleotides, utilizing common buffers like Tris-HCl with organic modifiers for gRNA separations, or strong basic conditions for separating oxidation impurities of thiolated oligonucleotides.

Unlike traditional silica and small-pore chemistries, PL-SAX has the pH and temperature stability—paired with optimal pore size—required to separate various oligonucleotide sizes and modifications.

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Tools and Resources

Quick Learnings

Synthetic oligonucleotides have evolved into a diverse set of molecules that vary greatly in size, structure, and modifications. With this diversity, comes many synthesis related impurities with high homology to the parent molecule. This series of free training modules discuss the theory of oligonucleotide purification, guiding through chemistry selection, method optimization, scale-up, and API characterization in quick video modules.

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Workflow ordering guides

These workflow ordering guides will help you quickly choose and order the right columns, standards, reagents, and supplies for your analysis.

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BioLC column eSelector tool

Unsure which is the best column for your analysis? Use our eSelector tool to quickly find the right column in just a few clicks. You can search by phase, application, or other vendors' part number.

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Fast track your knowledge with our Oligonucleotide Lightening Talk webinar series

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Free training modules

This series of training modules discuss the theory of oligonucleotide purification, guiding through chemistry selection, method optimization, scale-up, and API characterization in quick video modules.

Module 1 - Introduction: Designing Your Method

Module 2 - Impurity Profiles

Module 3 - Oligonucleotide Size and Pore Selection

Module 4 - Anion Exchange Method Optimization

Module 5 - Ion-Pair Reversed Phase Optimization

Module 6 - LC/MS Analysis of Synthetic Oligonucleotides

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Complete Workflows To Advance Your Lead Oligonucleotide Candidates From Discovery to Market

Agilent can help with complete workflows featuring instruments, software, columns and consumables optimized for oligonucleotide analysis. In addition, Agilent can help you with GMP manufacturing of late stage and commercial quantity oligonucleotides.

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Applications

Agilent offers a range of particle and pore sizes with our PLRP-S polymeric media. From bench to process, PLRP-S scales with your needs.

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Purification of Single-Stranded RNA Oligonucleotides Using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography

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Dynamic Binding Capacity of Oligonucleotides on PLRP-S Columns and Stationary Phases

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Purification Portfolio

Agilent nucleic acid purification portfolio

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Method Optimization

This application note describes common method parameters that can be optimized when purifying oligonucleotides ranging from 25 to 100 bases in length.

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Modified Oligos Separations

High Resolution Separations of Oligonucleotides using PL-SAX Strong Anion-Exchange HPLC Columns

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AEX Purification Portfolio

Agilent PL-SAX for Oligonucleotide Purification. Bench to Process.

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Purification Your Way: siRNA to mRNA

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Quick Learnings

This series of free training modules discuss the theory of oligonucleotide purification, guiding through chemistry selection, method optimization, scale-up, and API characterization in quick video modules.

Introduction: Designing Your Method

Module 1 discusses the series of variables that should be considered when optimizing a purification method including yield, resolution & throughput.

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Impurity Profiles

Synthetic oligonucleotides can range in size from a few bases to 1000's of bases in length. The oligonucleotides can have many impurities associated with this sythesis including truncation, incomplete thiolation, base loss, and adducts. We explore the many impurities that will require purification for a pure API.

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Oligonucleotide Size and Pore Selection

With the range of oligonucleotide sizes used as therapeutics, selection of the optimal pore size to give max binding capacity while having large enough pores for effective mass transfer is critical. This module explores performing dynamic binding capacity experiments to determine optimal pore size for your oligonucleotide purification and future scale-up.

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Anion Exchange Method Optimization

Anion exchange (AEX) is often selected as a preferred purification method due to its low cost buffer systems that can be readily available for scale-up to manufacturing. This module discusses the optimization of AEX for improved separation by adjusting common variables such as temperature, organic, and pH.

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Ion-Pair Reversed Phase Optimization

Ion-pair reversed phase separation is often used for oligonucleotide characterization and purification. Providing high resolution separation, ion-pair reversed phase is often utilized to separate challenging, co-eluting impurities. This module discusses method optimization including temperature, pore size, ion pair selection, and future scale-up.

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LC/MS Analysis of Synthetic Oligonucleotides

During oligonucleotide sythesis, purification and final formulation, monitoring of the API for final purity is critical throughput processing. This module explores the use of LC/MS for oligonucleotide characterization, including selecting an optimal ion pair and hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP) concentration.

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