| CPC C07K 1/16 (2013.01) [C07K 16/065 (2013.01); C07K 16/4291 (2013.01)] | 21 Claims |

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1. A process of purifying a protein of interest from a protein mixture comprising the protein of interest and one or more basic variants, the process comprising:
a) loading the protein mixture onto a ceramic hydroxyapatite column with a loading buffer;
b) washing the ceramic hydroxyapatite column with a washing buffer;
c) eluting by a linear gradient with an eluting buffer, thereby producing an eluted protein mixture comprising a purified protein of interest;
wherein the washing buffer is sodium phosphate buffer;
wherein the eluting buffer is sodium phosphate buffer; and
wherein the purified protein of interest is substantially pure and the one or more basic variants are present in the eluted protein mixture in an amount below 15% as analysed by cation exhange high performance liquid chromatography.
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