Journal
ELECTROPHORESIS
Volume 36, Issue 21, Pages 2695-2702Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/elps.201500219
Keywords
Antibodies drug conjugates; Charge variants; IgG1; IPG; Isoelectric focusing
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Characterization of both the acidic and basic regions of imaged capillary isoelectric focusing (icIEF) profile of an IgG1 antibody was achieved through preparative immobilized pH gradient isoelectric focusing (IPG-IEF) fractionation. Recent attempts at using this method to fractionate charge variants of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have shown promising results, but identification of the chemical modifications in the variants was limited to the basic species. We have optimized the method to achieve enrichment of each variant across the icIEF profile of an IgG1 mAb. The fractionation was followed by extended characterization to elucidate the composition of the acidic, main, and basic species observed in the icIEF profile. Deamidation, sialylation, glycation, and fragmentation were identified as the main modifications contributing to acidic variants of the mAb while C-terminal lysine, C-terminal proline amidation, and uncyclized N-terminal glutamine were the major species contributing to the basic variants. This characterization allows a better understanding of the modifications that contribute to the charge variants observed by icIEF, facilitating the evaluation of impacts on product safety and efficacy.
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