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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2024

Charge Detection Mass Spectrometry Reveals Conformational Heterogeneity in Megadalton-Sized Monoclonal Antibody Aggregates.

Jacob S Jordan, Conner C Harper, Fan Zhang, Esther Kofman, Mandy Li, Karthik Sathiyamoorthy, Jan Paulo Zaragoza, Laurence Fayadat-Dilman, Evan R Williams

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Jacob S JordanDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-1460, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2894-3126
Conner C HarperDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-1460, United States.
Fan ZhangDiscovery Biologics, Protein Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc., 213 E Grand Ave., South San Francisco, California 94080, United States.
Esther KofmanDiscovery Biologics, Protein Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc., 213 E Grand Ave., South San Francisco, California 94080, United States.
Mandy LiDiscovery Biologics, Protein Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc., 213 E Grand Ave., South San Francisco, California 94080, United States.
Karthik SathiyamoorthyDiscovery Biologics, Protein Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc., 213 E Grand Ave., South San Francisco, California 94080, United States.
Jan Paulo ZaragozaDiscovery Biologics, Protein Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc., 213 E Grand Ave., South San Francisco, California 94080, United States.
Laurence Fayadat-DilmanDiscovery Biologics, Protein Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc., 213 E Grand Ave., South San Francisco, California 94080, United States.
Evan R WilliamsDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-1460, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1733-3018

Funding

Multiplexed Charge Detection Mass Spectrometer for Extended Mass and Collisional Cross Section MeasurementsR01GM139338 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI Evan R Williams · 2020 to 2026
$2.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM139338
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aggregation of protein-based therapeutics can occur during development, production, or storage and can lead to loss of efficacy and potential toxicity. Native mass spectrometry of a covalently linked pentameric monoclonal antibody complex with a mass of ∼800 kDa reveals several distinct conformations, smaller complexes, and abundant higher-order aggregates of the pentameric species. Charge detection mass spectrometry (CDMS) reveals individual oligomers up to the pentamer mAb trimer (15 individual mAb molecules; ∼2.4 MDa) whereas intermediate aggregates composed of 6-9 mAb molecules and aggregates larger than the pentameric dimer (1.6 MDa) were not detected/resolved by standard mass spectrometry, size exclusion chromatography (SEC), capillary electrophoresis (CE-SDS), or by mass photometry. Conventional quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (QTOF MS), mass photometry, SEC, and CE-SDS did not resolve partially or more fully unfolded conformations of each oligomer that were readily identified using CDMS by their significantly higher extents of charging. Trends in the charge-state distributions of individual oligomers provides detailed insight into how the structures of compact and elongated mAb aggregates change as a function of aggregate size. These results demonstrate the advantages of CDMS for obtaining accurate masses and information about the conformations of large antibody aggregates despite extensive overlapping

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Antibodies, MonoclonalMass SpectrometryProtein ConformationChromatography, GelElectrophoresis, CapillaryProtein AggregatesAntibodies, MonoclonalProtein Aggregates

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PMID39110484
PMCPMC12803483

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