Figure 3.
Biochemical and biophysical characterization of the hinge deleted IgG1 and its corresponding full-length control mAb by (a) SEC-UPLC coupled to UV (A280) and MALS. The UV elution profiles of the hinge deleted IgG1 molecule (bottom trace) and the corresponding full-length control (top trace) are shown. Molecular masses of 140 and 150 kDa were measured by MALS for the hinge deleted molecule and its full-length counterpart. (b) Nonreduced CE-SDS coupled to UV (A280). Electropherograms of the buffer control (bottom trace), hinge deleted IgG1 molecule (middle trace) and the corresponding full-length control (top trace) are shown. (c) Differential Scanning Fluorimetry. An overlay of the melting profiles of the hinge deleted IgG1 molecule (orange) and the corresponding full-length control (teal) are shown. Melting temperatures/onset were 67.8/56.5 °C for the hinge deleted molecule and 71.1/63.2 °C for the full-length control. (d) Intact reduced LC–MS. Total Ion Counts of the hinge deleted IgG1 molecule heavy chain (top trace) and the corresponding heavy chain of the full-length control (bottom trace) are shown. The peak corresponding to the dominant Fc N-Glycan G0F and G1F species are shown.
