Objective: To discuss the feasibility and potential application of nano-differential scanning fluorescence (nanoDSF)to detect the melting temperature(Tm) of adalimumab. Methods: Using nano-DSF technique to measure Tm of adalimumab mAb at 6 different concentrations including 0.25, 0.5, 1, 5, 10, 50 mg·mL-1, parameters were set during the detection process: the temperature range was 25-95 ℃, the rate of temperature elevation was 1 ℃·min-1, the intrinsic fluorescence signal was collected to measure Tm, and the detection was repeated for 5 times. The specificity of nano-DSF was inspected by comparing the Tm results of adalimumab mAb and its formulation buffer. The precision of nano-DSF was obtained by evaluating the results of 5 Tm test results of adalimumab mAb at 6 different concentrations. The detection accuracy of nano-DSF technology was assessed by comparasion with the Tm detection results of adalimumab mAb with the differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) under 3 concentrations including 0.25, 0.5, 1 mg·mL-1. In the bases of method evaluation above, the technology was applied to evaluate the similarity between adalimumab mAb reference biotherapeutic product (RBP) and 6 similar biotherapeutic products (SBPs) Tm. Besides, the initial aggregation temperature (Tagg) of adalimumab mAb under 6 different concentrations was also detected by collecting the scattered light signals of antibody molecules during the heating process. Results: nano-DSF technique could specifically identify Tm of adalimumab but there was no characteristic curve of corresponding formulation buffer, indicating the specificity of this method. Besides the nano-DSF technique had good precision in detecting 6 samples with different concentrations of 0.25, 0.5, 1, 5, 10, 50 mg·mL-1 and each sample was detected 5 times, and the RSDs of Tm values were within 1%. Compared with the results of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), nano-DSF results were 2-3 ℃ lower generally, but the Tm measured by the two methods had good correlations(r≥0.99).The Tm maps of adalimumab mAb with different concentrations of 0.25, 0.5, 1, 5, 10, 50 mg·mL-1 were basically the same by nano-DSF, and there was no obvious difference in the results of Tm1 and Tm3 while Tm2 had a tendency to decrease with increa-sing concentrations. In the similarity study of adalimumab mAb RBP and SBPs, the results of nano-DSF and DSC were also consistent.In addition, detecting the Tagg at the same time of Tm detection. The detected Tagg showed a trend of gradual decline with increasing concentrations, which played an important role in the interpretation of Tm detection results. Conclusion: nano-DSF technology has satisfactory specificity, precision, accuracy and wide concentration application range, thus ensuring the suitability in the thermal stability similarity study of RBP and SBPs, etc.
GUO Sha, JIA Zhe, HE Peng-fei, TIAN Xiang-bin, YU Chuan-fei, WU Gang, CUI Yong-fei, LIU Chun-yu, WANG Lan
. Application of nano-differential scanning fluorescence inthermal analysis of adalimumab*[J]. Chinese Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, 2023
, 43(1)
: 153
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DOI: 10.16155/j.0254-1793.2023.01.18
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