On the Reproducibility of Early-Stage Thermally Induced and Contact-Stir-Induced Protein Aggregation

The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
Curtis W Jarand, Wayne F Reed

Abstract

Is aggregation kinetics for a protein under given conditions reproducible? Is aggregation inherently deterministic, stochastic, or even chaotic? Because protein aggregation in ex vivo formulations is complex, with many origins and manifestations, the question of aggregation reproducibility for a given protein, formulation, and stressor is of both fundamental and practical significance. This work concerns temperature-induced and contact-stir-induced aggregation of bovine serum albumin (BSA) and a monoclonal antibody (mAbX). It assesses reproducibility via early-stage aggregation rates (ARs) from light scattering. "Global stressors" affect the entire protein population, for example, temperature. "Local stressors" affect only a partial population at a given instant, for example, stirring. The instrumental error distribution (IED) allows stochasticity to be identified for AR distributions (ARDs) broader than IED. For ARD at the limit of the IED, the behavior is "minimally stochastic" or "operationally deterministic." A stochastic index is defined in terms of the ratio of the standard deviation (SD) of log(AR) data and the SD of IED. Thermal aggregation was operationally deterministic for BSA and mAbX, although significant lot-to-lo...Continue Reading

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