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Structural analysis of intact monoclonal antibodies by electron transfer dissociation mass spectrometry

Tsybin, Yury O.  
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Fornelli, Luca  
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Stoermer, Carsten
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2011
Analytical chemistry

Improving qualitative and quantitative characterization of monoclonal antibodies is essential, because of their increasing popularity as therapeutic drug targets. Electron transfer dissociation (ETD)-based top-down mass spectrometry (MS) is the method of choice for in-depth characterization of post-translationally modified large peptides, small- and medium-sized proteins, and noncovalent protein complexes. Here, we describe the performance of ETD-based top-down mass spectrometry for structural analysis of intact 150 kDa monoclonal antibodies, immunoglobulins G (IgGs). Simultaneous mass analysis of intact IgGs as well as a complex mixture of ETD product ions at sufficiently high resolution and mass accuracy in a wide m/z range became possible because of recent advances in state-of-the-art time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry. High-resolution ETD TOF MS performed on IgG1-kappa from murine myeloma cells and human anti-Rhesus D IgG1 resulted in extensive sequence coverage of both light and heavy chains of IgGs and revealed information on their variable domains. Results are superior and complementary to those previously generated by collision-induced dissociation. However, numerous disulfide bonds drastically reduce the efficiency of top-down ETD fragmentation within the protected sequence regions, leaving glycosylation uncharacterized. Further increases in the experiment sensitivity and improvement of ion activation before and after ETD reaction are needed to target S-S bond-protected sequence regions and post-translational modifications.

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DOI
10.1021/ac201293m
Web of Science ID

WOS:000297481700016

Author(s)
Tsybin, Yury O.  
Fornelli, Luca  
Stoermer, Carsten
Luebeck, Markus
Parra, Julien
Nallet, Sophie
Wurm, Florian M.  
Hartmer, Ralf
Date Issued

2011

Published in
Analytical chemistry
Volume

83

Issue

23

Start page

8919

End page

8927

Subjects

Ion-Cyclotron Resonance

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Charged Protein Cations

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Top-Down Proteomics

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Capture Dissociation

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Binding-Sites

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Peptides

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Phosphorylation

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Identification

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Regions

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Editorial or Peer reviewed

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January 4, 2012
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