Leveraging bioanalytical characterization of fractionated monoclonal antibody pools to identify aggregation‐prone and less filterable proteoforms during virus filtration

Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are an essential class of biotherapeutics. A platform process is used for mAb development to ensure clinically safe and stable molecules. Regulatory authorities ensure that mAb production processes include sufficient viral clearance steps to achieve less than one virus p...

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Published in:Biotechnology progress 2024-07, Vol.40 (4), p.e3451-n/a
Main Authors: Isu, Solomon, Vinskus, Lilia, Silva, Derek, Cunningham, Kristina, Elich, Thomas, Greenhalgh, Patricia, Sokolnicki, Adam, Raghunath, Bala
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adsorptivity
charge variants
Concentration gradient
Filterability
Filtration
Fractionation
glycoforms
Interaction parameters
Monoclonal antibodies
proteoforms
Quality management
Regulatory agencies
Statistical methods
virus filtration
Viruses
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Summary:Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are an essential class of biotherapeutics. A platform process is used for mAb development to ensure clinically safe and stable molecules. Regulatory authorities ensure that mAb production processes include sufficient viral clearance steps to achieve less than one virus particle per million doses of product. Virus filtration is used for size‐based removal of enveloped and nonenveloped viruses during downstream processing of mAbs. Process development in mAb purification relies on empirical approaches and often includes adsorptive prefiltration to mitigate virus filter fouling. Opportunities for molecular‐level prediction of mAb filterability are needed to plug the existing knowledge gap in downstream processing. A molecular‐level approach to understanding the factors influencing mAb filterability may reduce process development time, material loss, and processing costs due to oversized virus filters. In this work, pH step gradient fractionation was applied on polished bulk mAb feed to obtain concentrated pools of fractionated mAb variants. Biophysical properties and quality attributes of fractionated pools, including oligomeric state (size), isoelectric point profile, diffusion interaction parameters, and glycoform profile, were determined using bioanalytical methods. Filterability (loading and throughput) of fractionated pools were evaluated. Statistical methods were used to obtain correlations between quality attributes of mAb fractions and filterability on the Viresolve Pro virus filter.
ISSN:8756-7938
1520-6033
1520-6033
DOI:10.1002/btpr.3451