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Endotoxin is a component in the cell wall of Gram-negative bacteria, which is toxic to the host. Therefore, it is necessary to detect and control the content of endotoxin to avoid adverse reactions of the host when the recombinant protein is used in animal experiments, which will affect the experimental results.
Due to the small size of bacterial endotoxins, strong heat resistance and chemical stability, general filtration, heating and chemical methods are not easy to remove or inactivate endotoxins. The more commonly used endotoxin removal methods are mostly ultrafiltration or affinity chromatography. The lower limit of ultrafiltration membrane pore size (5-100nm) is similar to bacterial endotoxin, so the ultrafiltration membrane with small pore size can be used to remove bacterial endotoxin.