Technology Highlights Adam Adler, Ph.D. LakePharma, I nc. October - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Technology Highlights Adam Adler, Ph.D. LakePharma, I nc. October - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Technology Highlights Adam Adler, Ph.D. LakePharma, I nc. October 4, 2013 LakePharma Outline of Technology Highlights Hybridoma cloning Work with complicated hybridoma samples Stable Cell Line Generation Achieve high yield stable cell
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Outline of Technology Highlights
Hybridoma cloning Maxcyte Electroporation Stable Cell Line Generation
- Improve methods for high viability, high yield transient
protein production (and stable cell generation)
- Achieve high yield stable cell lines in a short time frame
Recombinant Protein Production
- Rapid protein production at small-scale
- DNA sequence to gram scale production in under 6 weeks
- Work with complicated hybridoma samples
Antibody Humanness Score
- Developed method to quantify the humanness of
monoclonal antibodies
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Hybridoma Cloning
- Have successfully cloned I gG hybridoma VH and VL from multiple species
- Have successfully cloned I gM hybridoma VH and VL from multiple species
- Have successfully cloned I gG B-cell VH and VL
- Success rate is > 95% (from more than 400 samples)
- Turnaround time is < 7 days
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Case Study: Customized Cloning of a Hamster Hybridoma with a Dominant Aberrant Light Chain
Standard cloning method Customized cloning method
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Case Study: Cloning of a Mouse Hybridoma with Multiple Heavy and Light Chains
Standard cloning method Customized analysis procedure
Relative affinity
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Outline of Technology Highlights
Hybridoma cloning Maxcyte Electroporation Stable Cell Line Generation
- Improve methods for high viability, high yield transient
protein production (and stable cell generation)
- Achieve high yield stable cell lines in a short time frame
Recombinant Protein Production
- Rapid protein production at small-scale
- DNA sequence to gram scale production in under 6 weeks
- Work with complicated hybridoma samples
Antibody Humanness Score
- Developed method to quantify the humanness of
monoclonal antibodies
LakePharma
CHO Stable Cell Line Generation
- Antibiotic System Generates Pools in 2 Weeks
- Serum-free suspension cell culture process
- Multiple selection markers can co-express multiple genes
– Zeocin, puromycin, and hygromycin B
Pool generation: 2 weeks, yield range is 50-200 mg/L
Transfection Apply selection Cell banking; Ready for production run 1 day 12-14 days 12-14 day production run Transfer to 24 well Transfer to 50 mL tube 100 mL in shake flask Cell banking; Ready for production run 1 day Transfection Apply selection 12-14 days 4 days 9 days 5 days 12-14 day production run
Clone generation: 5 weeks, yield range is 100-500 mg/L
Titer Growth VCD & titer in 96 well plates in shake flasks
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CHO Antibiotic Stable Cells
- Comparing Pool and High Performing Clone
- Antibody stable pool generated and
robust clonal lines selected
- Highest performing clones show
significant titer improvement over pool
Viable cell density Cell viability
Titer
200 1000
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Case Study: I ncrease Expression of a Low Producing Antibody with CHO Antibiotic Stable
- A mouse IgG2b antibody produced at 4 mg/L in a CHO chemical transient transfection
– 10-fold increase for electroporation or stable pool – 45-fold increase for stable clone
Production yield Conditioned media
4C4 6B5 6C4
Purified sample
Individual Clones Reducing Non-red
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Outline of Technology Highlights
Hybridoma cloning Maxcyte Electroporation Stable Cell Line Generation
- Improve methods for high viability, high yield transient
protein production (and stable cell generation)
- Achieve high yield stable cell lines in a short time frame
Recombinant Protein Production
- Rapid protein production at small-scale
- DNA sequence to gram scale production in under 6 weeks
- Work with complicated hybridoma samples
Antibody Humanness Score
- Developed method to quantify the humanness of
monoclonal antibodies
LakePharma
MaxCyte STX™ Electroporation
- Key advantages
– > 95% transfection efficiency in CHO – > 95% viability after transfection – Scalable to 1 liter transfection
- LakePharma and MaxCyte are partners
– To improve process – To further increase yield
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Case Study: High yield transient production using MaxCyte
Antibody transiently transfected into CHO cells with MaxCyte electroporation – Reached 500 mg/L within 7 days of production
Viable cell density (E6/mL) Cell viability Titer (mg/L)
500
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Case Study: I mprove stable cell line generation process with MaxCyte system
- Results
– Same DNA, same CHO cells, same selection procedure, different transfection method – Cell viability after transfection is higher with electroporation – 2-3 fold more expression with electroporation
- Hypothesis
– More copies of DNA are introduced to the cells by electroporation
Stable Pool Comparison # 1 [Antibody] Stable Pool Comparison # 2 [Fc-fusion]
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Outline of Technology Highlights
Hybridoma cloning Maxcyte Electroporation Stable Cell Line Generation
- Improve methods for high viability, high yield transient
protein production (and stable cell generation)
- Achieve high yield stable cell lines in a short time frame
Recombinant Protein Production
- Rapid protein production at small-scale
- DNA sequence to gram scale production in under 6 weeks
- Work with complicated hybridoma samples
Antibody Humanness Score
- Developed method to quantify the humanness of
monoclonal antibodies
LakePharma
High-Throughput Small Scale Antibody Production
Constructs complete; DNA scale-up; transfection Purification SDS-PAGE, QC 7 days Start DNA construction 5 days 2 days
Rush order [3-5 antibodies]: ~ 2 weeks
Example: – Produced 4 antibodies for a client in 12 days
- Started from DNA sequence: synthesis through purification
- Included an international holiday
– Obtained ~ 1 mg of each antibody
Constructs complete; DNA scale-up Purification SDS-PAGE, QC 10-14 days Start DNA construction 2 days 2 days 5 days Transfection [50-100 mL]
Standard order [10-100 antibodies per week]: 3-4 weeks
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[Low-Throughput Large Scale]
Gene Synthesis to Gram Scale Antibodies I n 6 Weeks
- Gene synthesis and cloning are integrated; can be completed in 1 week
- Multiple production routes
Route Yield range (mg/ L) Gene synthesis + cloning Pilot test run Stable pool generation Scale up production/ purification Total time 293 transient
50 – 500 1 week 1 week
N/A
2 weeks 4 weeks
CHO transient (MaxCyte EP)
50 – 500 1 week 1 week
N/A
3 weeks 5 weeks
CHO stable
50 – 500 1 week
N/A
2 weeks 3 weeks 6 weeks
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Case Study: High yield 293 transient production
Transient transfection of antibody into 293 cells:
0.0 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 d0 d1 d2 d3 d4 d5 d6 d7
1E6/mL
20 40 60 80 100 120 d0 d1 d2 d3 d4 d5 d6 d7
%
100 200 300 400 500 600 700 d0 d1 d2 d3 d4 d5 d6 d7
mg/L
Viable cell density Cell viability Titer
kDa 75 20 15 10 150 25 100 37 50
At 600 mg/ L, a 2 liter production would be sufficient for gram scale
DNA complete; transfect cells QC’d purified protein is ready Start DNA construction 10 days 9 days
Timeline: < 3 weeks
600
QC’d purified protein is ready New transfection 9 days
After second production run: 4 weeks total
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Case Study: Using a Stable Pool For Rapid Production
Viable cell density Cell viability Titer
Start production run QC’d purified protein is ready Start DNA construction for stable 7 days 14 days
Timeline: 5 weeks
DNA complete; electroporate; apply selection 14 days
300
Make CHO stable pool immediately followed by production run: At 300 mg/ L, 4 liter production would be sufficient for gram scale [or 10 liter WAVE would produce 3 grams]
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Case Study: Purify 1 Gram of a Low Producing Ab
Viable cell density Cell viability Titer
- Antibody was low producing in transient: ~ 1.5 mg/L
- CHO stable clone was developed: ~ 50 mg/L
- Two 10 L production runs (WAVE) were performed:
1,126 mg antibody was purified I f speed was priority, same goal could be achieved with stable pool and lager volume production
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Outline of Technology Highlights
Hybridoma cloning Maxcyte Electroporation Stable Cell Line Generation
- Improve methods for high viability, high yield transient
protein production (and stable cell generation)
- Achieve high yield stable cell lines in a short time frame
Recombinant Protein Production
- Rapid protein production at small-scale
- DNA sequence to gram scale production in under 6 weeks
- Work with complicated hybridoma samples
Antibody Humanness Score
- Developed method to quantify the humanness of
monoclonal antibodies
LakePharma
T20 Score Analyzer to Quantify Ab Humanness
- We developed a tool to quantify the humanness of the variable regions of monoclonal
antibodies – Based on sequence alignment to 1000s of sequenced human antibodies
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T20 Score Analyzer to Quantify Ab Humanness
Heavy (variable) Light (variable) T20 Score Analyzer
T20 score From 0-100; Higher score = More human-like
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T20 Score Analyzer to Aid Antibody Humanization
- T20 scores increase following
humanization of therapeutic antibodies – Though not all technically look “human-like” – These humanized antibodies have little to no immunogenicity
- Important to check humanness score