BACKGROUND: Monoclonal antibodies are becoming a leading class of biopharmaceuticals but to increase their accessibility by the general population, new production processes must be developed in particular for the downstream processing. RESULTS: In this work, an alternative and innovative affinity chromatographic method using quaternary amine matrices is proposed. Separation is driven by the dual affinity ligand LYTAG-Z, composed of a choline binding polypeptide (LYTAG) and the synthetic antibody binding Z domain. A two-elution method was developed for the purification of mAbs and the performance of different anion exchangers containing quaternary amines that act as choline analogues -CIMmultus Q, Q Sepharose and gPore Q -were tested and compared, with both CIMmultus Q and Q Sepharose allowing a recovery of more than 94% of mAbs from a CHO cell supernatant with a purity greater than 95%.An integrated platform combining an initial affinity extraction step for the clarification and capture of mAbs and a subsequent chromatographic separation using Q-matrices for the polishing of mAbs is also proposed. LYTAG-Z triggers the extraction of 94.7 ± 1.7% mAbs to the PEG-rich phase, as opposed to 26.9 ± 0.6% in the absence of the ligand, using 7% PEG 3350 and 6% dextran 500 k. Further purification using Q Sepharose allowed a mAb recovery of 95.3 ± 1.4% with a purity level of 91.4 ± 13.0%. CONCLUSION: An integrated platform based on two purification steps -affinity extraction and affinity chromatography -results in an overall process yield of 90%, allowing the processing of mAbs directly from a non-clarified CHO cell culture.
ATPS formulationPEG/dextran aqueous two-phase systems consisting of 7% (w/w) PEG 3350 Da and 6% (w/w) dextran 500 kDa were prepared by weighing the appropriate amounts of each component, namely PEG from stock solutions of 50% (w/w), dextran from a stock solution of 25% (w/w), biological sample and water, to a final weight of 10 g.The biological sample (pure human serum antibodies or CHO cell culture supernatant) was loaded at 35% (w/w). The LYTAG-Z ligand was loaded to the systems at double the mass concentration of the antibody (to a concentration of 100 mg L -1 of antibody, the concentration of LYTAG-Z was 200 mg L -1 ), to assure a molar ratio /jctb CHO genomic DNA quantification CHO genomic DNA (gDNA) content was determined by Quant-iT™ PicoGreen ® dsDNA reagent. Genomic DNA standards were prepared by serial dilution in elution buffer of genomic DNA extracted wileyonlinelibrary.com/jctb © 2017 Society of Chemical Industry J Chem Technol Biotechnol 2018; 93: [1966][1967][1968][1969][1970][1971][1972][1973][1974] The chromatographic profiles obtained with both convective flow devices are present in Fig. 3(A), and are very similar to the one obtained with Q Sepharose (in Fig. 2(A)), with (i) a large peak in the FT corresponding to most impurity proteins, (ii) small elution peaks obtained during low pH elution, and (iii) a larger peak