ウェビナー動画：Sanofi社、バイオ医薬品におけるin vivoバイオトランスフォーメーション研究のMS解析の効率化
本動画では、Sanofi R&D DMPK Research Platform Metabolism担当のJonathan Dhenin, Ph.D.氏が登壇し、インタクトおよびミドルダウン解析のための信頼性の高いワークフローを提供するGenedata Expressionist®によって、バイオトランスフォーメーションの特性解析を加速することができる、柔軟で自動化されたデータ取得・処理アプローチの開発について紹介しています。
Although monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) still represent the backbone of current immunotherapies, next-generation biotherapeutics are becoming increasingly important players in the field. These alternative therapeutic protein modalities cover a wide range of biological constructs with increased molecular diversity and complexity. Biotransformation is the structural modification of a drug — either chemically or enzymatically — after its administration. For biotherapeutics, typical biotransformations can include proteolysis, post translational modifications (PTMs), or other chemical changes such as payload deconjugation. Unlike for small molecules, evaluation of biotransformation was not a major concern for mAbs because the associated risks were considered relatively low. But the increasing diversity and complexity of new constructs could make them more prone to in vivo biotransformation, which could impact both efficacy and safety. Biotransformation should, therefore, be investigated as early as possible to maximize success rate of biotherapeutic drug candidates.
Thanks to its sensitivity and versatility, mass spectrometry (MS) has become the analytical technique of choice to support the characterization of biotherapeutics at various stages of development. Among these stages, pharmacokinetics (PK) allows the evaluation of the fate of drugs administrated to a living organism. The traditional peptide-based approach (bottom-up) provides a rapid and highly sensitive in vivo stability assessment of biotherapeutics, but it offers only a limited understanding of the molecular structures of eventual biotransformation products. Extending PK investigations to include the alternative and complementary intact and middle-down MS approaches could provide a more comprehensive overview of biotransformation at the protein level. However, the analysis, review, and reporting of intact and subunit data can present a significant bottleneck, especially when biotransformation is occurring.
This webinar highlights the development of flexible and automated data acquisition and data processing approaches that could overcome these challenges and provide a reliable workflow for intact and middle-down analysis to accelerate biotransformation characterization.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Automate MS-based intact mass and middle-down approaches for high-throughput therapeutic protein analysis from plasma samples.
- Enable qualitative and semi-quantitative monitoring of the different molecular forms of a biotherapeutic (i.e., proteoforms) that are present in plasma samples.
- Increase understanding of key in vivo biotransformation.