An application of mass spectrometry for quality control of biologicals: Highly sensitive profiling of plasma residuals in human plasma-derived immunoglobulin
Franck Limonier, Katleen Van Steendam, Genevieve Waeterloos, Koen Brusselmans, Myriam Sneyers, Dieter Deforce
Journal of Proteomics 152 (2017) 312-320
The authors have developed a mass spectrometry based method for the detection and quantitation of trace-level residual proteins in human plasma-derived immunoglobulin. These Ig's are used as therapies for disease-related immune deficiencies, as well as for autoimmune diseases. A series of adverse events due to these residuals is the stimulus for this work.
This study looked at a wide range of fractionation methods, acquisition strategies, replications, and samples to determine the optimum method. They concluded that enriching low abundant proteins using a bead-based combinatorial peptide ligand library (CPLL) is the preferred approach for detecting these residuals. Standard bottom-up LC/MS/MS and database search is used for detection and label-free quantitation.
They tested 5 different Ig products and discovered about 70 different residual plasma proteins. They demonstrated the quality control potential with a spiking experiment where levels of 1ng/mg in Ig were detectable, which is below the 3ng/mg threshold thrombotic dose (in vivo model).
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