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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY
卷 32, 期 3, 页码 762-771出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jasms.0c00458
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- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Middle-down analysis using tandem mass spectrometry offers detailed insight into the primary structure of monoclonal antibodies with minimal sample preparation, by cleaving them into subunits for analysis. The design of experiments approach optimizes MS2 parameters, particularly those influencing ETD efficiency, to increase sequence coverage of antibody subunits. The DOE strategy enhances sequence coverage percentages utilizing only one fragmentation method, ETD, and can be extended to other advanced techniques for increased coverage.
Middle-down analysis of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) by tandem mass spectrometry (MS2) can provide detailed insight into their primary structure with minimal sample preparation. The middle-down approach uses an enzyme to cleave mAbs into Fc/2, LC, and Fd subunits that are then analyzed by reversed phase liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (RPLC-MS2). As maximum sequence coverage is desired to obtain meaningful structural information at the subunit level, a host of dissociation methods have been developed, and sometimes combined, to bolster fragmentation and increase the number of identified fragments. Here, we present a design of experiments (DOE) approach to optimize MS2 parameters, in particular those that may influence electron transfer dissociation (ETD) efficiency to increase the sequence coverage of antibody subunits. Applying this approach to the NIST monoclonal antibody standard (NISTmAb) using three RPLC-MS2 runs resulted in high sequence coverages of 67%, 67%, and 52% for Fc/2, LC, and Fd subunits, respectively. In addition, we apply this DOE strategy to model the parameters required to maximize the number of fragments produced in low, medium, and high mass ranges, which ultimately resulted in even higher sequence coverages of NISTmAb subunits (75%, 78%, and 64% for Fc/2, LC, and Fd subunits, respectively). The DOE approach provides high sequence coverage percentages utilizing only one fragmentation method, ETD, and could be extended to other state-of-the-art techniques that combine multiple fragmentation mechanisms to increase coverage.
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