High-resolution mass spectrometry confirms the presence of a hydroxyproline (Hyp) post-translational modification in the GGGGP linker of an Fc-fusion protein

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Chris SpahrStone D-H Shi

Abstract

Flexible and protease resistant (G4S)n linkers are used extensively in protein engineering to connect various protein domains. Recently, several groups have observed xylose-based O-glycosylation at linker Ser residues that yield unwanted heterogeneity and may affect product quality. Because of this, an engineering effort was implemented to explore different linker sequence constructs. Here, we demonstrate the presence of an unexpected hydroxylation of a prolyl residue in the linker, made possible through the use of high-resolution mass spectrometry (HR-MS) and MSn. The discovery started with the detection of a poorly resolved ∼+17 Da mass addition at the reduced protein chain level of an Fc-fusion construct by liquid chromatography-MS. Upon further investigation at the peptide level using HR-MS, the mass increase was determined to be +15.99 Da and was localized to the linker peptide SLSLSPGGGGGPAR [210-223]. This peptide corresponds to the C-terminus of Fc [210-216], the G4P linker [217-221], and first 2 amino acids of a growth factor [222-223]. The linker peptide was first subjected to MS2 with collision-induced dissociation (CID) activation. The fragmentation profile localized the modification to the GGGPA [218-222] portion o...Continue Reading

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