Capillary isoelectric focusing and sodium dodecyl sulfate-capillary gel electrophoresis of recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody HER2

Abstract

Capillary isoelectric focusing (cIEF) and IEF of recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody HER2 (rhuMAbHER2) show five charged isoforms with estimated p I values ranging from 8.6–9.1. The cIEF assay demonstrated good precision with relative standard deviations (R.S.D.) 0.7–3.7% and 0.4–4.2% for intra and interassay analysis, respectively. The method was linear for the area of the main peak over the concentration range 2–250 μg/ml with a Pearson correlation coefficient >0.99. The limit of detection for the main peak was determined to be 2 ppm. With both sodium dodecyl sulfate-capillary gel electrophoresis (SDS-CGE) and SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, the nonreduced rhuMAbHER2 migrated as a single major peak with minor peaks in the aggregate and clip regions. After reduction, the electropherogram and the slab gel showed the expected heavy chain and light chain fragments with minor peaks in the aggregate and clip regions. The SDS-CGE assay showed good precision with R.S.D. values of 0.1–7.8% and 0.1–8.1% for intra and interassay analysis, respectively. The Pearson correlation coefficient for the area of the main peak was >0.99 demonstrating linearity for the concentrating range 0.5–500 μg/ml. The limit of detection for intact rhuMAbHER2 was determined to be 0.5 ppm. The data presented demonstrates the feasibility of replacing the slab gel techniques with capillary electrophoresis in a quality control environment.