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Jun 23, 2017 | Biopharma, Blogs, Pharma | 0 comments
Are you tasked with the bioanalysis of antibody drug conjugates (ADCs)? If so, you know they represent a rapidly growing class of biotherapeutics, but their unique chemical structure makes quantitative analysis particularly challenging.
So, what is the best technique to create a novel quantitative analysis solution that accelerates method development and improves the performance of ADC pharmacokinetic assays?
Typically used Ligand binding assays (LBA) such as Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays (ELISA) have many advantages. However, LBAs can suffer from high variability, limited dynamic range, and problems with selectivity. An alternative comes with liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), which has found widespread use in the quantitative analysis of small molecule drugs. While LC-MS/MS assays are exceedingly selective, with excellent dynamic range and reproducibility, they can lack sensitivity when applied to protein therapeutics.
In search of a solution, our experts developed a unique workflow with outstanding results. We combined a universal immunocapture enrichment strategy with sample preparation and a hybrid LBA microflow LC-MS/MS technique and applied it to the total antibody analysis of the ADC of Ado-trastuzumab emtansine in plasma.Read the full report in Chromatography Today >
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This hybrid LBA microflow LC-MS/MS workflow using high capacity streptavidin coated magnetic beads provides a customizable immunocapture strategy that enables the rapid development of high sensitivity pharmacokinetic assays of biotherapeutics during pre-clinical or phase HC studies.
The workflow applies to mAB based therapeutics and results in faster assay development with wide dynamic range, high selectivity, and high sensitivity, with a lower LLOQs than typically achieved by LC-MS/MS using a direct plasma or pellet digest.
Find out how our BioBA Solution can accelerate your biologics bioanalysis >
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