The Multi-Attribute
Method (MAM) Consortium was initially formed
as a venue to harmonize best practices, share experiences, and generate
innovative methodologies to facilitate widespread integration of the
MAM platform, which is an emerging ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography–mass
spectrometry application. Successful implementation of MAM as a purity-indicating
assay requires new peak detection (NPD) of potential process- and/or
product-related impurities. The NPD interlaboratory study described
herein was carried out by the MAM Consortium to report on the industry-wide
performance of NPD using predigested samples of the NISTmAb Reference
Material 8671. Results from 28 participating laboratories show that
the NPD parameters being utilized across the industry are representative
of high-resolution MS performance capabilities. Certain elements of
NPD, including common sources of variability in the number of new
peaks detected, that are critical to the performance of the purity
function of MAM were identified in this study and are reported here
as a means to further refine the methodology and accelerate adoption
into manufacturer-specific protein therapeutic product life cycles.
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