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Wiley, FEBS Letters, 6(588), p. 936-941, 2014

DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2014.01.051

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Competing Aggregation Pathways for Monoclonal Antibodies.

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Abstract

Aggregation is mediated by local unfolding to allow aggregation "hot spot(s)" to become solvent exposed and available to associate with a hot spot on another partially unfolded protein. Historically, the unfolding of either the Fc or the Fab regions of a given MAb has been implicated in aggregation, with differing results across different proteins. The present work focuses on separately quantifying the aggregation kinetics of isolated Fc, isolated Fab, and intact MAb as a function of pH under accelerated (high temperature) conditions. The results show that both Fab and Fc are aggregation prone and compete within the same MAb.