Poster Presentation The 45th Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function 2020

Assessing Biosimilarity by HDX-MS (#205)

Heather Patsiouras 1 , Asish Chakraborty 2 , Weibin Chen 2 , Qing Yu Ying 2
  1. Waters Australia, Rydalmere, NSW, Australia
  2. Waters Corporation, Milford, U.S.A

Hydrogen deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) is a key technology that provides

critical information on both protein conformation and dynamics. In recent years, HDX-MS has

become an indispensable tool in the biopharmaceutical industry to answer important questions

concerning biotherapeutic structure, stability, and interactions. In this study, we used HDX-MS to

compare the higher order structure similarity between innovator and biosimilar versions of a mAb.

Our results show that the structures of the innovator and biosimilar mAbs are comparable.

However, minute differences were observed in the Fc-CH2 domain and a few overlapping

peptides in this region attracted our attention. Details will be discussed in the poster.