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Article Dans Une Revue Analytical Chemistry Année : 2022

Combination of IM-Based Approaches to Unravel the Coexistence of Two Conformers on a Therapeutic Multispecific mAb

Nelly Lechat
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Bruno Genet
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

Multispecific antibodies, which target multiple antigens at once, are emerging as promising therapeutic entities to offer more effective treatment than conventional monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). However, these highly complex mAb formats pose significant analytical challenges. We report here on the characterization of a trispecific antibody (tsAb), which presents two isomeric forms clearly separated and identified with size exclusion chromatography coupled to native mass spectrometry (SEC-nMS). Previous studies showed that these isomers might originate from a proline cis/trans isomerization in one Fab subunit of the tsAb. We combined several innovative ion mobility (IM)-based approaches to confirm the isomeric nature of the two species and to gain new insights into the conformational landscape of both isomers. Preliminary SEC-nIM-MS measurements performed on a low IM resolution instrument provided the first hints of the coexistence of different conformers, while complementary collision-induced unfolding (CIU) experiments evidenced distinct gas-phase unfolding behaviors upon activation for the two isomers. As subtle conformational differences remained poorly resolved on our early generation IM platform, we performed high-resolution cyclic IM (cIM-MS) to unambiguously conclude on the coexistence of two conformers. The cis/trans equilibrium was further tackled by exploiting the IMn slicing capabilities of the cIM-MS instrument. Altogether, our results clearly illustrate the benefits of combining state-of-the-art nMS and IM-MS approaches to address challenging issues encountered in biopharma. As engineered antibody constructs become increasingly sophisticated, CIU and cIM-MS methodologies undoubtedly have the potential to integrate the drug development analytical toolbox to achieve in-depth conformational characterization of these products

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hal-03715025 , version 1 (06-07-2022)

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Evolène Deslignière, Simon Ollivier, Anthony Ehkirch, Armelle Martelet, David Ropartz, et al.. Combination of IM-Based Approaches to Unravel the Coexistence of Two Conformers on a Therapeutic Multispecific mAb. Analytical Chemistry, 2022, 94 (22), pp.7981-7989. ⟨10.1021/acs.analchem.2c00928⟩. ⟨hal-03715025⟩
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