Title
Direct measurement of light and heavy antibody chains using ion mobility and middle-down mass spectrometry
Date Issued
17 November 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Melani R.D.
Srzentić K.
McGee J.P.
Huguet R.
Fornelli L.
Kelleher N.L.
Northwestern University, Evanston
Publisher(s)
Taylor and Francis Inc.
Abstract
The analysis of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) by a middle-down mass spectrometry (MS) approach is a growing field that attracts the attention of many researchers and biopharmaceutical companies. Usually, liquid fractionation techniques are used to separate mAbs polypeptides chains before MS analysis. Gas-phase fractionation techniques such as high-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) can replace liquid-based separations and reduce both analysis time and cost. Here, we present a rapid FAIMS tandem MS method capable of characterizing the polypeptide sequence of mAbs light and heavy chains in an unprecedented, easy, and fast fashion. This new method uses commercially available instruments and takes ~24 min, which is 40-60% faster than regular liquid chromatography-MS/MS analysis, to acquire fragmentation data using different dissociation methods.
Start page
1351
End page
1357
Volume
11
Issue
8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Farmacología, Farmacia Biotecnología ambiental Bioquímica, Biología molecular
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85074117633
PubMed ID
Source
mAbs
ISSN of the container
19420862
Sponsor(s)
This research was carried out in collaboration with the National Resource for Translational and Developmental Proteomics under Grant P41 GM108569 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NLK) and supported by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation. LF would like to thank the University of Oklahoma, Department of Biology, for start-up funds.
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