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A comparison of biophysical characterization techniques in predicting monoclonal antibody stability.

Geetha Thiagarajan, Andrew Semple, Jose K James, Jason K Cheung, Mohammed Shameem

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Article in mAbs. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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45citing papers in PubMed
7.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 116 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Geetha Thiagarajana Sterile Product and Analytical Development Group , Biologics & Vaccines, Merck & Co., Inc. , Kenilworth , NJ , USA.
Andrew Semplea Sterile Product and Analytical Development Group , Biologics & Vaccines, Merck & Co., Inc. , Kenilworth , NJ , USA.
Jose K Jamesb Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School , Rutgers University , Piscataway , NJ, USA.
Jason K Cheunga Sterile Product and Analytical Development Group , Biologics & Vaccines, Merck & Co., Inc. , Kenilworth , NJ , USA.
Mohammed Shameema Sterile Product and Analytical Development Group , Biologics & Vaccines, Merck & Co., Inc. , Kenilworth , NJ , USA.
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States) · USJohnson University · US

Funding

UMDNJ TRAINING GRANT IN BIOTECHNOLOGYT32GM008339 · NIGMS · RUTGERS THE ST UNIV OF NJ NEW BRUNSWICK · PI YARMUSH, MARTIN L · 1989 to 2019
$6.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008339
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the rapid growth of biopharmaceutical product development, knowledge of therapeutic protein stability has become increasingly important. We evaluated assays that measure solution-mediated interactions and key molecular characteristics of 9 formulated monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapeutics, to predict their stability behavior. Colloidal interactions, self-association propensity and conformational stability were measured using effective surface charge via zeta potential, diffusion interaction parameter (kD) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), respectively. The molecular features of all 9 mAbs were compared to their stability at accelerated (25°C and 40°C) and long-term storage conditions (2-8°C) as measured by size exclusion chromatography. At accelerated storage conditions, the majority of the mAbs in this study degraded via fragmentation rather than aggregation. Our results show that colloidal stability, self-association propensity and conformational characteristics (exposed tryptophan) provide reasonable prediction of accelerated stability, with limited predictive value at 2-8°C stability. While no correlations to stability behavior were observed with onset-of-melting temperatures or domain unfolding temperatures, by DSC, melting of the Fab domain with the CH2 domain suggests lower stability at stressed conditions. The relevance of identifying appropriate biophysical assays based on the primary degradation pathways is discussed.

Indexed as

Drug StabilityProtein StabilityAntibodies, MonoclonalCalorimetry, Differential ScanningChromatography, GelColloidsImmunoglobulin GPropensity ScoreProtein AggregatesProtein ConformationSpectrometry, FluorescenceThermal DiffusionTryptophanAntibodies, MonoclonalColloidsImmunoglobulin GProtein AggregatesTryptophanAggregationcolloidal stabilitydiffusion interaction parameterfragmentationImmunoglobulinmonoclonal antibodythermal stabilityzeta potential

Identifiers

PMID27210456
PMCPMC5037989
OpenAlexW2405691703

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