Abstract

Two microchip electrophoresis (ME)-SDS methods have been developed for high throughput quantitation and quality screening of protein products. Both methods utilize a commercial microchip instrument to separate dodecyl sulfate-coated proteins within 1 min. In the high-resolution ME-SDS method, improved separation selectivity is achieved using a mixture of sieving polymers. Proteins of similar sizes, such as different fragment antigen-binding (Fab) assemblies can be readily resolved and individually quantified. A high-sensitivity ME-SDS method was also developed with sensitivity comparable to that of SDS-PAGE with silver staining. In this method, protein molecules are derivatized with a fluorescence reagent prior to analysis. LIF detection of the covalently attached fluorophore enables accurate quantitation of low-expressing proteins and detection of minor species at 0.04% level (1 ng/mL loading concentration). Both the high-resolution and the high-sensitivity ME-SDS methods can be applied to crude fermentation samples. The utilities of these methods in process development and formulation stability study are presented.

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Authors

Han H, Chen X

Institution

Integrated Biologics Profiling, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Source

Electrophoresis 33:5 2012 Mar pg 765-72

MeSH

Electrophoresis, Microchip
Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
Fermentation
Fluorescent Dyes
High-Throughput Screening Assays
Limit of Detection
Proteins
Silver Staining

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

22522533