“…Some chromatographic techniques have been used to purify pDNA, such as anion-exchange chromatography (AEC) (Hines et al, 1992;Prazeres et al, 1998;Franc et al, 2010), size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) (Horn et al, 1995), hydrophobic-interaction chromatography (HIC) (Gurunathan et al, 2000;Diogo et al, 2003;Duarte et al, 2004;Moreira et al, 2005;Pereira et al, 2010) and affinity chromatography (AC) (Wils et al, 1997;Sandberg et al, 2004). These chromatographic methods work well in removing host contaminants (protein, RNA, endotoxins, genomic DNA, etc.…”