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  • Title: Characterization of oligosaccharides in recombinant tissue plasminogen activator produced in Chinese hamster ovary cells: two decades of analytical technology development.
    Author: Borisov OV, Field M, Ling VT, Harris RJ.
    Journal: Anal Chem; 2009 Dec 01; 81(23):9744-54. PubMed ID: 19947664.
    Abstract:
    Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) is a well-characterized glycoprotein with a great deal of published information on its structure, post-translational modifications, and O- and N-glycosylation. Most of the characterization was accomplished in the late 1980s. During the past 2 decades, however, mass spectrometry has made a quantum leap forward offering new capabilities in soft electrospray ionization, speed, resolution, and accuracy of mass measurements. From this point of view, it is worthwhile to revisit the characterization of familiar proteins, such as rt-PA, using the new capabilities of modern analytical technology. In this work, we applied LC-MS with state-of-the-art instrumentation to the characterization of glycoforms of rt-PA. This method takes advantage of accurate mass measurements along with a fast "in-source" voltage switching for the detection of characteristic oxonium ions of saccharides. This method confirmed previously identified glycan structures based on existing knowledge of rt-PA glycans. In addition, we identified two novel glycan structures in rt-PA. A low level of Asn142 N-glycosylation was detected at an atypical Asn-Xaa-Cys consensus motif. It was found to be modified predominantly by biantennary hybrid structures. This N-glycosylation site was confirmed using a recently developed electron-transfer dissociation (ETD) technique. Also using this method, we detected low levels of elongation of fucose-O-Thr61 to di-, tri-, and tetrasaccharides, not previously observed in rt-PA. The results demonstrate that use of state-of-the-art analytical methods can reveal low-level, previously undetected modifications of well-characterized biopharmaceuticals.
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