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The use of capillary electrophoresis for the analysis of therapeutic antibodies and other biopharmaceuticals is growing in popularity. A new article by researchers from CNRS in France showed how capillary zone electrophoresis-native mass spectrometry could be used for the quality control of intact therapeutic monoclonal antibodies. The authors show for the first time the use of a triple layer coated…
Many of Genovis' customers have submitted abstracts for ASMS 2019 in Atlanta, in which the SmartEnzymes have been used. Below is a digested guide to these abstracts so that you can plan your days at ASMS. To read the full poster abstracts, visit the Online Planner for ASMS, and paste the abstract titel in the search field. Sunday,…
In biopharmaceutical product development and manufacturing, free thiol content is one of the product quality attributes of interest as its presence could impact structure, stability and function of the product. At Biogen, Yi Pu et al have optimized a label-free LC (UV) / MS method for free thiol quantification at a subunit level of IgG1…
Analysis of the glycosylation of therapeutic antibodies and other biopharmaceuticals is typically done by LC or LC/MS-based methods. However, each analytical technique has its strengths and weaknesses which makes the development of orthogonal methodologies crucial for in-depth characterization. In this study, researchers from the FDA present a middle-down NMR approach for studying glycosylation of therapeutic antibodies. Analogous to…
The Consortium for Top-down Proteomics is currently conducting a large inter lab study. They are developing methods for the analysis of intact mAbs and antibody subunits generated by digestion with either FabRICATOR or GingisKHAN. In this paper, van der Burgt et al. present a novel method for the analysis of mAbs based on MALDI in-source…
Genovis was selected to present at the GlycoBioTec 2019 Conference in Berlin in January. Andreas Nägeli, Senior Scientist at Genovis, presented novel workflows based on the O-glycan specific OpeRATOR enzyme and GlycOCATCH coupled to LC-MS. Download the slide deck here Read more about Operator
In an article by Valentina D’Atri et al. recently published in Analytical Chemistry (2019), the scientists developed a middle-up HILIC/HRMS workflow for detailed characterisation of the Fc fusion protein etanercept. The etanercept molecule consists of an IgG1 Fc domain fused to a tumour necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) and is used in the treatment of…
Scientists from the prestigious Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have used OpeRATOR to develop a workflow to map O-glycosylated sites on proteins in very complex samples. O-glycoproteins are notoriously difficult to study due to the low abundance, high structural heterogeneity and low stability. Previous approaches using affinity enrichment or engineered cell culture systems either…
This week, scientists from Genovis are presenting two poster at the Protein Engineering Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. The posters cover our O-glycan specific endoprotease Operator and the recently launched FabRICATOR-HPLC column for automated antibidy subunit generation. Check out the poster abstracts below: An O-glycan Specific Endoprotease with Applications in Glycoprotein Analysis using LC-MS Helen Nyhlen, Maria Nordgren, Stephan Björk,…
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In a recent article by Srzentic et al. (2018) the authors present a multiplexed middle-down MS workflow with improved performance for targeted protein structure analysis. Using GingisKHAN for antibody digestion, the authors analysed the F(ab) subunits of a therapeutic mAb. By implementing spectral and transient averaging of mass spectra across several LC-MS experiments,…
In an article by Luca Fornelli & Kristina Srzentic et al. recently published in Analytical Chemistry the authors present a workflow for antibody sequence determination by combining top-down and middle-down LC/MS. The authors analyzed the therapeutic antibody rituximab in its intact and fragmented form, using FabRICATOR and GingisKHAN to generate antibody subunits. By combining the…
