Glycoprofiling effects of media additives on IgG produced by CHO cells in fed‐batch bioreactors. Issue 2 (19th August 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kildegaard, Helene Faustrup; Fan, Yuzhou; Sen, Jette W.; Larsen, Bo; Andersen, Mikael R.
• Is Part Of: Biotechnology and bioengineering. Volume 113:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 359
• Page End: 366
• Publication Date: 2015-08-19
• Subjects: glycosylation -- Chinese hamster ovary cells -- fed‐batch -- IgG -- medium additives; Biotechnology -- Periodicals; Bioengineering -- Periodicals; 660.6
• DOI: 10.1002/bit.25715
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0006-3592

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are mainly produced by heterologous expression in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. The glycosylation profile of the mAbs has major impact on the efficacy and safety of the drug and is therefore an important parameter to control during production. In this study, the effect on IgG N‐glycosylation from feeding CHO cells with eight glycosylation precursors during cultivation was investigated. The study was conducted in fed‐batch mode in bioreactors with biological replicates to obtain highly controlled and comparable conditions. We assessed charge heterogeneity and glycosylation patterns of IgG. None of the eight feed additives caused statistically significant changes to cell growth or IgG productivity, compared to controls. However, the addition of 20 mM galactose did result in a reproducible increase of galactosylated IgG from 14% to 25%. On the other hand, addition of 20 mM N‐acetyl‐D‐glucosamine (GlcNAc) reduced relative abundance of galactosylated IgG by 4%. Additionally, supplementation with 10 mM mannose slightly reduced GlcNAc occupancy of IgG. Overall, comparing the effects of IgG glycosylation, by supplementing the cell culture medium with glycosylation precursors during cultivation, revealed an application of these glycosylation precursors for modulating N‐glycosylation of IgG. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2016;113: 359–366. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Abstract : The study presents the application of feed additives for N‐glycosylation engineering in bioreactor fed‐batch culture. The effect of feeding eight different glycosylation precursors that are expected to be involved in nucleotide sugars synthesis pathway was investigated and revealed the possibilities for modulating N‐glycosylation of IgG through this strategy.