Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Native Microfluidic CE-MS Analysis of Antibody Charge Heterogeneity

Abstract:

Methods for detecting and/or discriminating between post-translational modification variants of an antibody of interest in a sample. The methods including: contacting a sample comprising one or more antibodies of interest with a protease to digest the sample into antibody fragments; separating antibody fragments by molecular weight and/or charge in one or more capillaries using capillary electrophoresis; eluting separated antibody fragments from the one or more capillaries; and determining the mass of the eluted antibody fragments by mass spec analysis, thereby detecting and/or discriminating between post-translational modification variants of the antibody of interest.