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MABS
Volume 3, Issue 6, Pages 577-583Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.4161/mabs.3.6.17959
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antibody; basic charge variants; proline amidation; copper; mass spectrometry
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We report a case study of an IgG1 with a unique basic charge variant profile caused by C-terminal proline amidation on either one or two heavy chains. The proline amidation was sensitive to copper ion concentration in the production media during cell culture: the higher the Cu2+ ion concentration, the higher the level of proline amidation detected. This conclusion was supported by the analysis of samples that revealed direct correlation between the proline amidation level observed from peptide maps and the level of basic peaks measured by imaged capillary isoelectric focusing and a pH gradient ion-exchange chromatography method. The importance of these observations to therapeutic antibody production is discussed.
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