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中国生物工程杂志

China Biotechnology
China Biotechnology  2020, Vol. 40 Issue (12): 41-48    DOI: 10.13523/j.cb.2009009
    
Enhancement of Anti-CD20 Monoclonal Antibody Expression by CHO based on DOE and Amino Acid Supplemental Strategy
KONG Jian-tao1,ZHUANG Ying-ping1,2,GUO Mei-jin1,2,**()
1 State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
2 Shanghai Biological Manufacturing Technology Innovation Center, Shanghai 200237, China
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Abstract  

Fed-batch culture has been one of main bioprocesses for monoclonal antibody (mAb) production by Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. It has been reported that environmental parameters like temperature and pH and nutritional ingredients are key factors that can influence cell growth, carbon and/or nitrogen source metabolism and foreign protein expression in CHO cell suspension culture. Objective: Effects of culture process parameters (temperature and pH) on cell growth and anti-CD20 antibody expression by CHO cells were investigated based on design of experiment (DOE), and a fed-batch strategy was successfully developed to improve anti-CD20 antibody expression level with amino acid supplementation. The results show that temperature was a key factor for anti-CD20 antibody expression: 35℃was the optimal temperature with an increased cell density and target mAb yield. However, the impact of pH on mAb production by CHO cells was not significant and there were no interaction between pH and temperature. The optimal culture conditions were 35℃ and pH7.0 according to the analysis of DOE predictive profiler. In addition, it found that residual concentrations of tyrosine and cysteine in culture was below 0.1mmol/L at late stage of cultivation process under the optimal culture condition. As such, additional 1.5mmol/L tyrosine and 1mmol/L cysteine were fed on day 2, led to an increase in anti-CD20 antibody titer by 24.1% and no changes in glycosylation of anti-CD20 antibody.



Key wordsChinese hamster ovary cells      Anti-CD20 antibody      Design of experiment      Environmental parameter      Fed-batch strategy     
Received: 06 September 2020      Published: 14 January 2021
ZTFLH:  Q819  
Corresponding Authors: Mei-jin GUO     E-mail: guo_mj@ecust.edu.cn
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KONG Jian-tao,ZHUANG Ying-ping,GUO Mei-jin. Enhancement of Anti-CD20 Monoclonal Antibody Expression by CHO based on DOE and Amino Acid Supplemental Strategy. China Biotechnology, 2020, 40(12): 41-48.

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Temp(℃) pH Titer(g/L)
B1 37℃→31℃(Day4) 6.8 0.75
B2 37℃→31℃(Day4) 7.0 0.84
B3 37℃→33℃(Day4) 6.9 1.04
B4 37℃→33℃(Day4) 6.9 1.01
B5 37℃→35℃(Day4) 6.8 1.15
B6 37℃→35℃(Day4) 7.0 1.26
Table 1 DOE design strategy and response variable values for temperature and pH factors
Fig.1 Cell growth of CHO cells cultured under different temperatures and pH conditions (a) Cell density of CHO cells (b) Cell viability of CHO cells
Fig.2 DOE analysis results
Fig.3 Cell growth and antibody concentration when CHO cells were cultured under optimal culture conditions (a)Cell growth of CHO cells (b) Antibody concentration
Fig.4 Time course of tyrosine and cysteine concentrations during culture process of B6 bioreactor
氨基酸 IVCD(106cells·d/ml) Qp [mmol/(109cells·d)]
Tyrosine 167.73 0.019
Cysteine 167.73 0.015
Table 2 The specific consumption rates of amino acids during culture process
Fig.5 Cell growth when CHO cells were grown with amino acids supplementation in bioreactor
Fig.6 Concentration and glycoform percentage of antibody expressed by CHO cells cultured with amino acids supplementation in bioreactor (a) Concentration of antibody (b) Glycoform percentage of antibody
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