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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 88, Issue 11, Pages 5662-5669Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b03946
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Capillary isoelectric focusing (cIEF) is widely used in the biopharmaceutical industry to measure the charge distribution of therapeutic proteins. The implementation of this technology has created a new challenge. Capillary volumes are on the order of hundreds of nanoliters and cannot be scaled up for the preparative collection of charge variants. This makes it difficult to identify the charge variants in a cIEF electropherogram. Therefore, preparative IEF methods are needed to fractionate charge variants for characterization. We used free-flow electrophoresis (FFE) to isolate monoclonal antibody charge variants observed in a cIEF electropherogram. The same antibody was also fractionated using the Rotofor and Offgel instruments for comparison. A strategy for purifying the fractionated charge variants and downstream characterization is described. Acidic and basic variants were identified and related back to the analytical cIEF charge profile. This study establishes free-flow isoelectric focusing as a valuable tool for characterizing therapeutic proteins.
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