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Important advances in top-down and middle-level analytical LC-MS strategies have arisen in recent years, focused on the characterization of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies. Similar strategies to analyze polyclonal IgG in regard to subclass abundance and glycosylation patterns may provide new insight into immune regulatory processes. However, challenges associated with molecular heterogeneity due to inherent sequence variability…
The O-glycoprotease OpeRATOR® from Genovis has spurred great interest from the community and has become a valuable tool for characterizing O-glycosylated biopharmaceuticals. Through a collaboration with the lab of Marcelo Guerin, the structure of OpeRATOR has now been solved and published in Nature Communications.
Scientists at the University of Amsterdam use SmartEnzymes in a new study of the biological and structural properties of antibody pathogenesis in blood transfusions. Blood transfusions are a vital part of healthcare but can in some cases lead to severe conditions such as anti-leukocyte antibodies in the transfusion product that cause transfusion-mediated acute lung…
Srzentic et al. present an interlaboratory study investigating the current state of top-down and middle-down mass spectrometry methods for the characterization of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies and explore the potential added value of these methods to the more commonly used bottom-up mass spectrometry. In the growing market of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), there is an…
Gstöttner et al. used SmartEnzymes for their CE-MS analysis of highly homologous bispecifics, one of them containing LALA mutations. Bispecific antibodies (BsAb) offer an attractive alternative to traditional mAbs since they can bind to two different epitopes simultaneously. Because they are composed of four different peptide chains, rather than two, they are subject to…
We are excited to announce that QED Bioscience and Genovis have joined together and combined their strengths to provide top-quality research tools to scientists across the globe. QED Bioscience is a US company based in San Diego that has been designing and manufacturing antibodies for 25 years, providing superior antibody products and services to…
The Tn-antigen is characterized by the presence of a single N-Acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) residue linked to serine or threonine residues on proteins. It is an immature glycoform without extension to form any of the common O-glycan core structures. The Tn antigen is a hallmark of many forms of cancer and rarely found in healthy tissue. Mapping and comparing Tn-antigens on proteins is therefore…
Researchers at Strasbourg University and Pierre-Fabre highlight the benefits of a middle-level approach to IgG isotype fingerprinting using native ion-mobility mass spectrometry. In this new article by Botzanowski et al., a middle-level approach was compared to more classical intact methods for distinguishing IgG isotypes using native ion mobility mass spectrometry. Ion mobility mass…
Scientists at the University of Geneva and CNRS present site-specific ADCs generated using the GlyCLICK technology and an analytical middle-up LC-HRMS workflow as a potential core module for ADC development. Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are efficient therapeutic agents that possess the cell-targeting properties of monoclonal antibodies combined with the potency of cytotoxic drugs. Early generation…
Monoclonal antibodies (mAb) are used in various treatments and new potential targets continue to arise. To ensure a high specificity of the antibody to the intended antigen each mAb needs to be well characterized since they are often heterogeneous. In this paper, Giorgetti et al. combined bottom-up, middle-level and intact level analysis to get the…
Scientists at NIBRT in Dublin together with scientists at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, have investigated the effect of two different methods to control the level of fucosylation of a model antibody during expression in CHO cells. Production of biopharmaceuticals in mammalian cells requires that critical quality attributes are controlled for safety and therapeutic…
Genovis SmartEnzyme IgGZERO was used in this recent study by researches from the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Children’s Hospital. Sepsis is a dysregulated immune response to an infection that leads to very high levels of inflammation resulting in tissue damage and potential for multiorgan failure. It therefore leads to a high rate…
