High-Performance Native LC-MS for Increasing Analytical Depth when

Characterizing mAbs and other Biopharmaceuticals

DATE
November 24, 2020
TIME
8:00 a.m. PST / 11:00 a.m. EST / 16:00 GMT / 17:00 CET - Duration: 60 Minutes

Overview

Native mass spectrometry has emerged as a powerful tool to understand protein assemblies and post-translational modifications (PTMs) in structural biology. The coupling of liquid phase separations such as size exclusion chromatography (SEC-MS), or cation or anion exchange chromatography (IEX-MS) with native MS, facilitates biopharmaceutical characterization for the analysis of aggregates and size variants of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs).

The ability to perform native LC-MS has been driven by advances in high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) and the associated bioinformatics used for post-acquisition spectral processing. Here, we present an evaluation of the performance of Thermo Scientific™ hybrid quadrupole-Orbitrap™ MS instruments, namely the Thermo Scientific™ Q Exactive™ Plus mass spectrometer and the Thermo Scientific™ Orbitrap Exploris™ 240 mass spectrometer, both with the Thermo Scientific™ BioPharma option for extended mass range, for the characterization of mAbs and other biopharmaceuticals, using native LC-MS. Using head-to-head comparison, we investigate performance for overall sensitivity and analytical depth when using the same sample load on both instrument platforms for different mAbs. We show that when combined with advanced data processing features such as Sliding Window deconvolution in Thermo Scientific™ BioPharma Finder™ software, in-depth characterization of mAbs can be performed, even in cases where non-optimal separations are observed in the chromatographic domain, making native LC-MS a powerful tool for biopharmaceutical characterization.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

Speakers

Florian Füssl, Ph.D.
Research Fellow,
NIBRT
Sara Carillo, Ph.D.
Application Development Team Leader,
NIBRT
Ann Thayer
Contributing Editor,
C&EN Media Group

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