“…Protein conformational changes are known to occur when exposed to the strong hydrophobic surfaces of reversed phase chromatography (RPC) (Benedek et al, 1984;Cohen et al, 1985;Lu et al, 1986;Gooding and Regnier, 1990;Oroszlan et al, 1992;Fernandez, 1999, 2001;). Losses of enzyme activity (Kato et al, , 1986Josic et al, 1986) and low chromatographic recovery (Ichinose et al, 1985;Fausnaugh et al, 1984a,b;Kato et al, 2002) have also been reported for some HIC media, even though they are the much less hydrophobic than RPC resins. In particular, unstable proteins can exhibit complex chromatographic peak shapes during HIC, ranging from broad peak widths and shoulders to split peaks.…”