Abstract
Free zone capillary electrophoresis was investigated for the separation of glycoforms in recombinant erythropoietin (r-HuEPO). Reduction of electroendoosmotic flow through the addition of 1,4-diaminobutane and in the presence of urea resulted in optimum separation of all of the major glycoforms. Incubation of r-HuEPO with neuraminidase caused the slowest migrating species to diminish first in response, indicating that these contained the highest numbers of sialic acids. Additional evidence was obtained from spiking r-HuEPO with individual glycoforms isolated by preparative isoelectric focusing. These results indicate that the separation occurs in a predictable manner in order of increasing number of sialic acids contained in the glycoforms. As a consequence, the electropherograms provide the same information as that obtained from conventional gel isoelectric focusing, although separating by a different mechanism.
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