| ADC | Antibody-drug conjugate |
| ADCC | Antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity |
| AGE | Advanced glycation end product |
| Asn | Asparagine |
| Asp | Aspartate |
| Arg | Arginine |
| C1q | First subcomponent of the C1 complex |
| CDC | Complement-dependent cytotoxicity |
| CDR | Complementarity determining region |
| CE-SDS | Capillary electrophoresis sodium dodecyl sulfate |
| CH2 | Heavy chain constant domain 2 |
| CHO | Chinese hamster ovary |
| CQA | Critical quality attribute |
| Cys | Cysteine |
| Da | Dalton |
| Fab | Fragment antigen binding |
| Fc | Fragment crystallizable |
| FcRn | Neonatal Fc receptor |
| GlcNAc | N-acetylglucosamine |
| Gln | Glutamine |
| Glu | Glutamate |
| Gly | Glycine |
| His | Histidine |
| ICH | International Conference on Harmonization |
| IgG | Immunoglobulin G |
| IsoAsp | Isoaspartate |
| LC-MS | Liquid chromatography mass spectrometry |
| Lys | Lysine |
| mAb | Monoclonal antibody |
| Man | Mannose |
| Met | Methionine |
| NANA | N-Acetylneuraminic acid |
| NGNA | N-Glycolylneuraminic acid |
| PAM | Peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase |
| PK | Pharmacokinetics |
| Pro | Proline |
| PTM | Posttranslational modification |
| PyroGlu | Pyroglutamate |
| QTPP | Quality target product profile |
| SDS-PAGE | Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis |
| Thr | Threonine |
| Trp | Tryptophan |