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Multiplexed Middle-Down Mass Spectrometry as a Method for Revealing Light and Heavy Chain Connectivity in a Monoclonal Antibody

Srzentic, Kristina  
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Nagornov, Konstantin O.  
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Fornelli, Luca  
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November 6, 2018
Analytical Chemistry

Pairing light and heavy chains in monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) using top-down (TD) or middle-down (MD) mass spectrometry (MS) may complement the sequence information on single chains provided by high-throughput genomic sequencing and bottom-up proteomics, favoring the rational selection of drug candidates. The 50 kDa F(ab) subunits of mAbs are the smallest structural units that contain the required information on chain pairing. These subunits can be enzymatically produced from whole mAbs and interrogated in their intact form by TD/MD MS approaches. However, the high structural complexity of F(ab) subunits requires increased sensitivity of the modern TD/MD MS for a comprehensive structural analysis. To address this and similar challenges, we developed and applied a multiplexed TD/MD MS workflow based on spectral averaging of tandem mass spectra (MS/MS) across multiple liquid chromatography (LC)-MS/MS runs acquired in reduced or full profile mode using an Orbitrap Fourier transform mass spectrometer (FTMS). We first benchmark the workflow using myoglobin as a reference protein, and then validate it for the analysis of the 50 kDa F(ab) subunit of a therapeutic mAb, trastuzumab. Obtained results confirm the envisioned benefits in terms of increased signal-to-noise ratio of product ions from utilizing multiple LC-MS/MS runs for TD/MD protein analysis using mass spectral averaging. The workflow performance is compared with the earlier introduced multiplexed TD/MD MS workflow based on transient averaging in Orbitrap FTMS. For the latter, we also report on enabling absorption mode FT processing and demonstrate its comparable performance to the enhanced FT (eFT) spectral representation.

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DOI
10.1021/acs.analchem.8b02398
Web of Science ID

WOS:000449722500030

Author(s)
Srzentic, Kristina  
Nagornov, Konstantin O.  
Fornelli, Luca  
Lobas, Anna A.
Ayoub, Daniel  
Kozhinov, Anton N.  
Gasilova, Natalia  
Menin, Laure  
Beck, Alain
Gorshkov, Mikhail V.
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Date Issued

2018-11-06

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC

Published in
Analytical Chemistry
Volume

90

Issue

21

Start page

12527

End page

12535

Subjects

Chemistry, Analytical

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Chemistry

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electron-transfer dissociation

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top-down

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fourier-transform

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capture dissociation

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protein

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fragmentation

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peptide

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spectra

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noise

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igg1

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REVIEWED

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December 13, 2018
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/152601
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