Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31607219›Full record

ArticlemAbs

Direct measurement of light and heavy antibody chains using ion mobility and middle-down mass spectrometry.

Rafael D Melani, Kristina Srzentić, Vincent R Gerbasi, John P McGee, Romain Huguet, Luca Fornelli, Neil L Kelleher

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in mAbs. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Top-Down and Middle-Down Mass Spectrometry of Antibodies.Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP · 2025
    Review
  3. Article
  4. Top-down proteomics.Nature reviews. Methods primers · 2024
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Review
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Rafael D MelaniDepartments of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, and Chemical and Biological Engineering; the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute; and the Proteomics Center of Excellence, Northwestern University , Evanston , IL , USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0349-235X
Kristina SrzentićThermo Fisher Scientific , Cambridge , MA , USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7098-1460
Vincent R GerbasiDepartments of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, and Chemical and Biological Engineering; the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute; and the Proteomics Center of Excellence, Northwestern University , Evanston , IL , USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5573-0578
John P McGeeDepartments of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, and Chemical and Biological Engineering; the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute; and the Proteomics Center of Excellence, Northwestern University , Evanston , IL , USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0527-8904
Romain HuguetThermo Fisher Scientific , San Jose , CA , USA.
Luca FornelliDepartment of Biology, University of Oklahoma , Norman , OK , USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6334-1046
Neil L KelleherDepartments of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, and Chemical and Biological Engineering; the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute; and the Proteomics Center of Excellence, Northwestern University , Evanston , IL , USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8815-3372

Funding

TR&D 7: Cell Specific ProteomicsP41GM108569 · NIGMS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI KELLEHER, NEIL L · 2015 to 2024
$13.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM108569
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The analysis of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) by a middle-down mass spectrometry (MS) approach is a growing field that attracts the attention of many researchers and biopharmaceutical companies. Usually, liquid fractionation techniques are used to separate mAbs polypeptides chains before MS analysis. Gas-phase fractionation techniques such as high-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) can replace liquid-based separations and reduce both analysis time and cost. Here, we present a rapid FAIMS tandem MS method capable of characterizing the polypeptide sequence of mAbs light and heavy chains in an unprecedented, easy, and fast fashion. This new method uses commercially available instruments and takes ~24 min, which is 40-60% faster than regular liquid chromatography-MS/MS analysis, to acquire fragmentation data using different dissociation methods.

Indexed as

Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray IonizationTandem Mass SpectrometryAntibodies, MonoclonalChromatography, LiquidImmunoglobulin Heavy ChainsImmunoglobulin Light ChainsAntibodies, MonoclonalImmunoglobulin Heavy ChainsImmunoglobulin Light ChainsFAIMSgas-phase fractionationlight and heavy chainsmAbmiddle-down analysis

Identifiers

PMID31607219
PMCPMC6816405

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.