The availability of glucose to CHO cells affects the intracellular lipid-linked oligosaccharide distribution, site occupancy and the N-glycosylation profile of a monoclonal antibody

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• 作者：Bo Liu ; Maureen Spearman ; John Doering ; Erica Lattov谩 ; H茅l猫ne Perreault ; Michael Butler
• 关键词：Glycosylation ; Monoclonal antibody ; CHO cells ; Lipid-linked oligosaccharide
• 刊名：Journal of Biotechnology
• 出版年：20 January, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：170
• 期：Complete
• 页码：17-27
• 全文大小：1842 K

文摘

The glycosylation pattern of a chimeric heavy chain antibody (EG2) produced from CHO cells was affected by the glucose concentration (0-25 mM) of cultures established at high density (>10⁶ ml^-1) over 24 h. The resulting proportion of non-glycosylated Mab was directly correlated to the exposure time of cells to media depleted of glucose. Deprivation of glucose for the full 24 h resulted in a 45% non-glycosylated Mab fraction.

Analysis of steady state levels of intracellular lipid-linked oligosaccharides (LLOs) showed that under glucose limitation there was a reduction in the amount of full length LLO (Glc₃Man₉GlcNac₂), with a concomitant increase in the smaller mannosyl-glycans (Man_2-5GlcNAc₂). Glycan microheterogeneity was quantified by galactosylation and sialylation indices (GI and SI) which showed a direct correlation to the cell specific glucose uptake. The GI increased to 0.83 following media supplementation with a cocktail of uridine, manganese and galactose. This is significantly higher than for a fully humanized antibody (DP12) produced under the similar conditions or for similar antibodies reported in the literature. The high GI of the chimeric antibody (EG2) may be due to its low molecular weight and unusual structure. These findings are important in relation to the low substrate that may occur in fed-batch cultures for Mab production.