Effects of process intensification on homogeneity of an IgG1:κ monoclonal antibody during perfusion culture

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The pharmaceutical industry employs various strategies to improve cell productivity. These strategies include process intensification, culture media improvement, clonal selection, media supplementation and genetic engineering of cells. However, improved cell productivity has inherent risk of impacting product quality attributes (PQA). PQAs may affect the products' efficacy via stability, bioavailability, or in vivo bioactivity. Variations in manufacturing process may introduce heterogeneity in the products by altering the type and extent of N-glycosylation, which is a PQA of therapeutic proteins. We investigated the effect of different cell densities representing increasing process intensification in a perfusion cell culture on the production of an IgG1-κ monoclonal antibody from a CHO-K1 cell line. This antibody is glycosylated both on light chain and heavy chain. Our results showed that the contents of glycosylation of IgG1-κ mAb increased in G0F and fucosylated type glycans as a group, whereas sialylated type glycans decreased, for the mAb whole protein. Overall, significant differences were observed in amounts of G0F, G1F, G0, G2FS1, and G2FS2 type glycans across all process intensification levels. G2FS2 and G2 type N-glycans were predominantly quantifiable from light chain rather than heavy chain. It may be concluded that there is a potential impact to product quality attributes of therapeutic proteins during process intensification via perfusion cell culture that needs to be assessed. Since during perfusion cell culture the product is collected throughout the duration of the process, lot allocation needs careful attention to process parameters, as PQAs are affected by the critical process parameters (CPPs). KEY POINTS: • Molecular integrity may suffer with increasing process intensity. • Galactosylated and sialylated N-glycans may decrease. • Perfusion culture appears to maintain protein charge structure.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:108

Enthalten in:

Applied microbiology and biotechnology - 108(2024), 1 vom: 26. März, Seite 274

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Liang, George [VerfasserIn]
Madhavarao, Chikkathur N [VerfasserIn]
Morris, Caitlin [VerfasserIn]
O'Connor, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Ashraf, Muhammad [VerfasserIn]
Yoon, Seongkyu [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antibodies, Monoclonal
CHO-K1 cell line
Immunoglobulin G
Isoelectric point
Journal Article
Micro heterogeneity
N-glycosylation
Polysaccharides
Protein integrity
VRC01 mAb

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 28.03.2024

Date Revised 29.03.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s00253-024-13110-9

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370200497