“…IMAC has been reported as a promissing technology for purification of proteins with an "N-terminal metal biding tag" (e.g., histidine tail and NT1A) (Puri et al, 2010;Petzold et al, 2014;Cheung et al, 2012), including on a large scale (Gaberc-Porekar and Menart, 2005), due to its low cost and the high purity of the eluate, even in a single step process (Puri et al, 2010;Carvalho et al, 2014). However, when approaching the purification of natural pro-teins, IMAC may present some challenges since the amount of histidine on the surface accounts for only 1% of the total number of amino acids (Ueda et al, 2003).…”