Antibody aggregation

PMCID: PMC6698864 DOI: 10.3390/antib5030019

Introduction. Therapeutic antibodies are prone to form aggregates during manufacturing, handling, and storage. A combination of different patient and drug …Purpose Aggregation of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) is a common yet poorly understood issue in therapeutic development. There remains a need for high-resolution structural information about conformational changes and intermolecular contacts during antibody aggregation. Methods We used hydrogen exchange mass …

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Aggregation directly reduces production yields, ... Based on full antibody atomistic simulations, it measures the effective dynamically exposed hydrophobicity of a certain patch on the protein surface to identify aggregation prone regions. It implements a mutation option on predicted regions. SAP has been applied either in high-throughput ...On account of the identification of aggregation-prone regions and their contribution to the thermodynamic stability of the protein, predicting and decreasing the aggregation propensity of monoclonal antibodies become available. With years of exploration in antibody engineering, Creative Biolabs has built a full-scale in silico technology platform.For these reasons, the removal of aggregates is a focus of downstream processing. The mAb purification procedure must effectively reduce aggregate concentration in the drug product, and processes are usually optimized to target an aggregate concentration of less than 1% for the final mAb drug product. Additionally, processes must be optimized ...Introduction. Aggregation of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) is an unwanted but frequently observed degradation process that poses challenges for biopharmaceutical development. 1 – 4 Protein aggregation is generally described as a complex, multi-stage process involving unfolding or misfolding of free monomers followed by one or more …Protein aggregates may impact significantly the product quality, safety and/or efficacy. This review is intended to summarize four major aspects of protein aggregation – (1) aggregation mechanisms, (2) aggregation-influencing factors, (3) detection of protein aggregates, and (4) control of protein aggregation based on recent literature in ...Agglutination or aggregation involves the cross-linking of pathogens by antibodies to create large aggregates (Figure \(\PageIndex{8}\)). IgG has two Fab antigen-binding sites, which can bind to two separate pathogen cells, clumping them together. When multiple IgG antibodies are involved, large aggregates can develop; these aggregates are ...The supernatant postagitation was analyzed using SE-HPLC, FTIR, and AUC analyses and revealed no changes in conformation and aggregation profile when compared to the nonagitated antibody sample. The antibody particles were comprised of a combination of nonnative intermolecular disulfide-linked covalent as well as noncovalent interactions. Abstract Therapeutic antibodies must encompass drug product suitable attributes to be commercially marketed. An undesirable antibody characteristic is the propensity to aggregate.1. Introduction. IgG-like bispecific antibodies (bsAbs) are man-made antibodies that can bind two epitopes on the same or distinct targets. They can be divided into two main …• The recombinant antibody aggregation in mammalian cell systems is reviewed. • Intracellular environment and extracellular parameters inuence recombinant antibody aggregation . Antibody aggregation is a more common manifestation of physical instability. The concentration-dependent antibody aggregation was considered the greatest challenge to developing protein formulations at higher concentrations. 47 This is because protein aggregates generally have reduced activity and more importantly, ...Our data identifies electrostatic bridging between the antibody and the negatively charged AuNPs as the mechanism by which aggregation occurs and rules out protein unfolding and surface charge depletion as potential causes. Furthermore, we found that the electrostatic bridging of AuNPs is reversible within the first few hours of …The importance of hydrophobicity in antibody research is also highlighted by the number of tools that are aimed at aggregation prediction using hydrophobicity as a main parameter of their input data. For example, the spatial aggregation propensity ( 16 ) method is based on the hydrophobicity scale by Black and Mould ( 33 ).SEC was used as the major stability-indicating assay during this study. The percentage of aggregates, fragments and monomers from SEC chromatograms are plotted separately in Figure 7A–C. Figure 7A shows that all three antibodies exhibit higher aggregation rates after deglycosylation. Although the increased rate of aggregate formation with the ...Abstract. Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are the fastest-growing biological therapeutics with important applications ranging from cancers, autoimmunity diseases and metabolic …

A complete SEC-UV workflow has been developed to enable the analysis of antibody aggregates and fragments. This workflow offers the following: System suitability test utilizing a protein standard mix. Procedures for pH and temperature stressing of antibodies. SEC-UV method for antibody monomer, aggregates, and fragments separation/analysis.The analysis of aggregates of therapeutic proteins is crucial in order to ensure efficacy and patient safety. Typically, the analysis is performed in the finished formulation to ensure that aggregates are not present. An important question is, however, what happens to therapeutic proteins, with regard to oligomerization and aggregation, …Oct 6, 2021 · In the antibody models described here, the H chain of 1HZH has a galactose termini on the α1-3Man branch. Therefore, it is possible to rotate this branch, maybe more, by attaching sialic acids. This ultimately makes it possible to minimize antibody aggregation, blocking the exposure of hydrophobic and aromatic amino acids to the solvent ... The solution pH and ion choice is important as, for example, below pH 4.5 antibody aggregation is induced to some extent; at pH 4.0 the cation and anion impact aggregation but only the anion has an effect at pH 3.0. 45 Appropriate buffers such as citrate or histidine control pH to avoid antibody structural degradation. 46 Surfactants including ...

Sep 1, 2020 · This study aims to elucidate the formation of various kinds of aggregates as outcomes of a variety of mechanical, chemical, and thermal stresses applied to a monoclonal antibody therapeutic. The extent of aggregation, nature of aggregates, and impact of aggregates on biological activity and potency, all depend on the source of aggregate formation. Oct 6, 2020 · Perfusion reduces bispecific antibody aggregation via mitigating mitochondrial dysfunction-induced glutathione oxidation and ER stress in CHO cells. Pritam Sinharoy 1, Aaron H. Aziz 1, Analysis of BisAb aggregate formation in fed-batch and perfusion processes. (A) Left Panel: Cell free samples were collected from each bioreactor from day 6 onwards.Samples were analyzed by ultra ...…

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In addition, aggregation can occur during and after drug fill-finish. Shear stress, agitation, mixing speed and filtration can impact aggregate formation during fill-finish (4, 5). Post fill examples of antibody aggregate formation include product temperature excursions due to improper storage and mishandling such as dropping of vials .In contrast, the antibody profiling rules incorrectly identified the aggregation propensity of several samples (false positive and false negative aggregation propensity assignments). CNTO607 IgG4 had three flags, suggesting high aggregation propensity, but this antibody was reported to be stable at 110 mg/ml in PBS Citation 37 and had a high ... An antibody viscosity dataset containing 38 variants of an IgG1 antibody, with viscosity data in the form of concentration (mg/mL) that leads to a viscosity of 20 cP, has recently been made available. Citation 9 The variable domains of each antibody were modeled and various 3D descriptors were calculated. The ens_charge descriptor has the ...

Antibody Aggregation Analytical Techniques Aggregation characterization is key to successful biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing. Assessing or analyzing the aggregation level of mAb therapeutic candidates is a regulatory requirement and also an important component of developability assessment.Antibody Aggregation Analytical Techniques Aggregation characterization is key to successful biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing. Assessing or analyzing the aggregation …Aggregate content in cell culture samples was estimated using a high-resolution size-exclusion chromatography technique, which efficiently resolved the antibody monomer and aggregates in the cell ...

Perfusion reduces bispecific antibody aggregation via m Antibody aggregation could be triggered by partial unfolding of its domains, leading to monomer-monomer association followed by nucleation and growth. Although the aggregation propensities of antibodies and antibody-based proteins can be affected by the external experimental conditions, they are strongly dependent on the intrinsic antibody ...The importance of the CH3 domains for antibody structural integrity and solubility is further illustrated in the turbidity profiles and DLS signals during the thermal ramp, where aggregation follows the unfolding of the CH3 domain, as seen in Figure 2. However, CH3 unfolding does not appear to be the sole determinant for aggregation. This product is manufactured by BioVision, an Abcam company and Detecting & Removing Aggregates. Biolog For elution of antibodies captured on a Protein A resin, the pH is shifted from neutral to low pH of 3-3.5, contributing to antibody aggregation to different extents depending on the antibody. To remove these aggregated species, which are classified as impurities that risk eliciting an immunogenic response, IEX is often included further ...In recent years, a variety of new antibody formats have been developed. One of these formats allows the binding of one type of antibody to two different epitopes. This can for example be achieved by introduction of the “knob-into-hole” format and a combined CrossMab approach. Due to their complexity, these bispecific antibodies are … Abstract. Monoclonal antibodies are the fastest growing class of ther Sep 1, 2020 · This study aims to elucidate the formation of various kinds of aggregates as outcomes of a variety of mechanical, chemical, and thermal stresses applied to a monoclonal antibody therapeutic. The extent of aggregation, nature of aggregates, and impact of aggregates on biological activity and potency, all depend on the source of aggregate formation. Mutagenesis has also been used to prepare antibody variants with enhanMonoclonal antibody (mAb) products are presently the domiTherapeutic antibodies play a crucial role in the treatment undesirable antibody characteristic is the propensity to aggregate. Although there are computational algorithms that predict the propensity of a protein to aggregate from sequence information alone, few consider the relevance of the native structure. The Spatial Aggregation Propensity (SAP) algorithm developed by Chennamsetty et. al. incorporates SEC was used as the major stability-indic Purpose To identify the aggregation mechanism and the stability characteristics of three different monoclonal antibodies under acidic conditions. Methods The aggregation kinetics is analyzed by a combination of light scattering, size exclusion chromatography and fluorescence techniques and the aggregation data are correlated … Apr 14, 2020 · This recombinant human monoclonal antibody is specific[Third, to the extent that irreversible aggregates eThis indicates that electrostatic repulsion prevents denatured mAb m The aggregate demand curve, which illustrates the total amount of goods and services demanded in the economy at a given price level, slopes downward because of the wealth effect, the interest rate effect and the net exports effect, accordin...Antibody aggregation is understood to progress via several parallel and competing pathways and has been extensively reviewed elsewhere. Citation 13, Citation 14 Regardless of the dominating pathway for aggregation of a given molecule, dimer formation is among the first steps of aggregation. This may be via the association of two natively folded ...