Title: Interlaboratory Study for Characterizing Monoclonal Antibodies by Top-Down and Middle-Down Mass Spectrometry

Journal Article · · Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
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  1. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-0001, United States
  2. Spectroswiss, EPFL Innovation Park, Building I, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
  3. University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
  4. Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
  5. National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
  6. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, United States
  7. Centre d’immunologie Pierre Fabre, 74160 Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, France
  8. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1224, United States
  9. Leiden University Medical Centre, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
  10. Institute Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France
  11. University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
  12. Biogen, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142-1031, United States
  13. The University of Edinburgh, EH9 3FJ Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  14. Consortium for Top-Down Proteomics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States
  15. The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, United States
  16. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
  17. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
  18. University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States
  19. Novo Nordisk, DK-2760 Malov, Denmark
  20. Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030-3411, United States
  21. National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States; Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32310-4005, United States
  22. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
  23. Bruker Daltonik GmbH, 28359 Bremen, Germany
  24. Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California 94080-4990, United States
  25. University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium; University of Leeds, LS2 9JT Leeds, United Kingdom
  26. Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, United States

The Consortium for Top-Down Proteomics (www.topdownproteomics.org) launched the present study to assess the state of top-down mass spectrometry (TD MS) and middle-down mass spectrometry (MD MS) for characterizing monoclonal antibody (mAb) primary structures, including their modifications. To meet the needs of the rapidly growing therapeutic antibody market, it is important to develop analytical strategies to characterize the heterogeneity of a therapeutic product’s primary structure reliably and reproducibly. The major objective of the present study was to determine whether current TD/MD MS technologies and protocols can add value to the more commonly employed bottom-up approaches, such as confirming protein integrity, sequencing variable domains, ruling out artefacts, and revealing modifications and their locations. A panel of three mAbs was selected and centrally provided to twenty laboratories worldwide for the analysis: Sigma mAb standard (SiLuLite), NIST mAb standard, and the therapeutic mAb Herceptin (trastuzumab). A variety of different MS instrument platforms and ion dissociation techniques were employed. Overall, the present study confirms that MD/TD MS strategies are valuable and readily available tools in laboratories worldwide. They provide complementary information to the bottom-up approach and can add unique information, which may be crucial for comprehensive mAb characterization. The current limitations, as well as possible solutions to overcome them, are also outlined. One of the limitations revealed by the results of the present study is that the expert knowledge in both experiment and data analysis is indispensable to practice TD/MD MS, but the number of TD/MD MS experts is still very low.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Contributing Organization:
The Consortium for Top-Down Proteomics
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
1671041
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-147397
Journal Information:
Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Journal Name: Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 31; ISSN 1044-0305
Publisher:
American Society for Mass SpectrometryCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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