Quantification of Structural Integrity and Stability Using Nanograms of Protein by Flow-Induced Dispersion Analysis
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Documents
- Fulltext
Final published version, 980 KB, PDF document
In the development of therapeutic proteins, analytical assessment of structural stability and integrity constitutes an important activity, as protein stability and integrity influence drug efficacy, and ultimately patient safety. Existing analytical methodologies solely rely on relative changes in optical properties such as fluorescence or scattering upon thermal or chemical perturbation. Here, we present an absolute analytical method for assessing protein stability, structure, and unfolding utilizing Taylor dispersion analysis (TDA) and LED-UV fluorescence detection. The developed TDA method measures the change in size (hydrodynamic radius) and intrinsic fluorescence of a protein during in-line denaturation with guanidinium hydrochloride (GuHCl). The conformational stability of the therapeutic antibody adalimumab and human serum albumin were characterized as a function of pH. The simple workflow and low sample consumption (40 ng protein per data point) of the methodology make it ideal for assessing protein characteristics related to stability in early drug development or when having a scarce amount of sample available.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Article number | 2506 |
Journal | Molecules |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 8 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISSN | 1420-3049 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:
Funding: Innovation Fund Denmark (grant number 9065-00009B).
- automation, FIDA, hydrodynamic radius, protein folding, protein size, protein stability, Taylor dispersion analysis (TDA)
Research areas
Number of downloads are based on statistics from Google Scholar and www.ku.dk
ID: 306592461