Ammonium Sulfate Precipitation (Salting Out)

Concentrates or fractionates proteins from a crude mixture by exploiting differences in solubility as the concentration of a highly soluble salt is increased.

References

• Atha, D.H., Ingham, K.C. "Mechanism of Precipitation of Proteins by Polyethylene Glycol. Analysis in Terms of Excluded Volume." Journal of Biological Chemistry 256, no. 23 (1981): 12108–12117.