WO2005077106A2 - Monoclonal antibody based biomarker discovery and development platform - Google Patents
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- Biomarkers are surrogate measures of specific changes in biological processes, such as increases or decreases in blood proteins or other analytes, that relate to changes in disease state, or changes in reponse to drug treatment, environmental components, food, nutrients, etc, .
- biomarkers as surrogate clinical measures detect early biological responses after drug treatment for analyzing drug safety and early efficacy in testing new drugs.
- Biomarkers have both prognostic and diagnostic uses. For instance, once the disease status is established, these markers can be used to predict the likely course of the disease and to monitor and assist in the management of disease. One can use biomarkers to stratify diseased populations.
- biomarkers can be used for disease management, through diagnosis, staging, stratification and measures of progression and prognosis, and, most importantly, for early measures and/or predictors of drug efficacy or toxicity.
- the pharmaceutical industry is interested in biomarker discovery for two main reasons. First, the increasing rate of drug candidate attrition has reached levels where the cost effectiveness of drug discovery and development becomes questionable. The root causes of drug candidate attrition have been identified as resulting from a poor understanding of the mechanism of action of the candidate and from poor pharmacological validation and translation of cellular and animal model-based results to the clinic.
- biomarkers can bridge the gap between cellular and animal models and human clinical conditions, and new biomarkers, such as HER2, are likely to be relevant to drug mechanisms of action as predictors of drug efficacy.
- Another major cause of attrition is the individuality of drug toxicity reactions. Identification of individuals with idiosyncratic and other unexpected responses will save lives and money and will allow the introduction of safer drugs. Examples of efficient genetic biomarkers of this type have been reported recently. Secondly, the high cost of clinical trials for candidate drugs for slowly progressing chronic diseases is prohibitive.
- Chronic diseases such as Alzheimer disease, type II diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease represent a major fraction of health care costs and contribute significantly to the direct cause of death.
- the size of the market and the needs of the public are tremendous in these disease areas, which beg for effective mechanism-based drugs.
- the slow, progressive nature of these diseases poses a currently insurmountable problem.
- the minimal measurable improvement (20- 30%) in disease symptoms occurs over such a long period of time that it is impractical and too expensive to test potential therapies in clinical trial settings.
- the expectation for disease progression-specific biomarkers is that they will permit the prediction of improvement earlier than such improvement actually occurs, thus providing a useful tool to measure and predict the efficacy of novel candidate drugs in shorter and less expensive clinical trials.
- SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The invention is directed to a method or platform for biomarker discovery that includes the steps of (1) providing a complex analyte as a candidate biomarker source; (2) providing a control sample for said complex analyte; (3) using an aliquot of said complex analyte as an immunogen to generate a population of monoclonal antibodies directed against antigens in said complex analyte; (4) screening said population of monoclonal antibodies directed against antigens in said complex analyte against another aliquot of said complex analyte; (5) screening said population of monoclonal antibodies directed against antigens in said complex analyte against an aliquot of said control sample; and (6) selecting one or more monoclonal antibodies that exhibits a significant difference in binding to
- significant difference generally refers to or otherwise represents a value (e.g., qualitative or quantitative) that is an indicator of a statistical difference between the reactivity or affinity of a monoclonal antibody to an antigen of a specific complex analyte and the reactivity or affinity of the monoclonal antibody to an antigen of the control sample for that specific complex analyte.
- a p value less than or approximately equal to 0.05 from either a parametric analysis (e.g., Student's T test or Welch's T test) or a non-parametric analysis (e.g., Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test or Kruskal-Wallis test) will, by convention, be an indicator (e.g., a probability indicator) of whether an outcome is statistically different from another outcome and whether such a finding is unlikely due to mere chance.
- a parametric analysis e.g., Student's T test or Welch's T test
- a non-parametric analysis e.g., Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test or Kruskal-Wallis test
- the antigen is identified by methods known to those of skill in the art.
- the antigen may be, for example, a protein or a peptide, a glycoprotein, a lipid, a glycolipid, a phospholipid, a complex sugar or a nucleic acid.
- Complex analytes that can be screened by the method of the invention include any kind of complex mixture.
- complex analyte mixtures of biological origin can include human and animal serum or plasma; urine, tear, sputum or inflammatory exudates (e.g., synovial fluid, cysts, bursas, cerebrospinal fluid, exudates from the thoracic cavity or exudates from the abdominal cavity) ; any normal or pathological bodily fluid or excretion, including feces or tissue extracts of normal and pathological tissues (e.g., malignant and benign tumors or cancerous tissue) ; and biopsy material of normal and pathological tissues (e.g., skin, colon, breast, liver, kidney, hair and/or nail) .
- Complex analyte mixtures also include extracts and lysates of bacteria; bacterial, fungal and higher organism composed ecosystems; and extracts or condensates of soil, clouds or air
- Samples to be screened by the method can also include artificial mixtures of purified or recombinant protein mixes; artificial mixtures of synthetic peptides; artificial mixes of lipids; naturally occurring mixes of organic metabolites; artificial mixes of naturally occurring but enriched or purified organic compounds; and mixes of compounds of synthetic origin and combinations thereof.
- complex analyte mixtures and the appropriate controls can be chosen to look for biomarkers having a wide variety of properties and uses.
- Other uses in addition to those previously mentioned include predicting the bioavailability of a drug, scaling the results from animal models to human subjects, predicting the therapeutic dose in clinical trials, monitoring patient compliance with the treatment modality, identifying patients who have higher likelihood of responding or not responding to a specific treatment, identifying patients who have higher likelihood of expressing or not expressing idiosyncratic reactions, identifying sub-populations of a clinical group and predicting toxicity.
- metastatic cells have been observed to contain altered forms of certain proteins present in normal cells.
- the method of the invention permits the identification of a biomarker even if it is present in an altered form, such as a truncated or alternatively spliced form.
- a disease-specific biomarker can be used to identify individuals who, for example, are prone to the disease or condition of interest; show significant genetic susceptibility to a disease or condition of interest; have the disease but in its early asymptomatic stages (e.g., before the actual appearance of the clinically recognizable disease conditions and/or symptoms) ; are possible responders or non-responders to therapy; or are possible responders with an undesirable reaction (e.g., toxic, allergic, hypersensitivity, nausea, vomiting, changes in EKG, loss of memory, loss of sexual desire, loss of erectile function, loss of kidney function, loss of liver function, lowering of blood pressure and/or elevation of blood pressure) .
- an undesirable reaction e.g., toxic, allergic, hypersensitivity, nausea, vomiting, changes in EKG, loss of memory, loss of sexual desire, loss of erectile
- a biomarker may also generally be specific for an individual having any reaction that would limit the administration of a drug or specific to individuals belonging to a group of patients having a certain disease but who form a specific subgroup with characteristic symptoms that require a specific treatment regimen.
- appropriate sources of control samples include healthy individuals who are of the same age and sex and/or who belong to the same race as the donors of the clinical sample; or those who share a genetic background with the donors of the clinical sample, who live in the same or similar environment, who consume the same or similar type of food and who appear apparently healthy.
- diseased individuals who share with the diseased group of interest as many as possible of the criteria of same age, same sex, belonging to the same race, living in the same environment and consuming the same type of food, with the exception of the symptom (s) of interest for which a biomarker is to be discovered and developed, would also be suitable controls.
- the sample such as serum or plasma
- the principle to be observed is that naturally occurring complex mixtures, e.g., protein mixtures, have a non-identical relative concentration (abundance) of the individual elements comprising the complex mixture.
- abundant proteins represent an arbitrarily defined class, those that have the highest relative abundance level in any complex mixture.
- the “highest level” is determined empirically and the term “abundant” is used.
- the abundant protein class will have a numeric complexity of less than 5-10% of the total and represent at least 50% of the total mass of protein (or other type of analyte) in any representative sample of the complex mixture.
- the abundant class or classes can be removed or just reduced to the concentration range of the rest of the analytes, which are considered to be "low abundance, e.g., proteins.”
- low abundance proteins represent a class of proteins having the lowest relative abundance level in any complex mixture.
- the "lowest level” is determined empirically and the term “low abundance” is used.
- the low abundance protein class may have a numeric complexity of 3,000 to 10,000 or more and usually represent less than 5%—10% of the total mass in any representative sample of the complex mixture.
- a systems biology strategy is deployed for prioritization of candidate biomarker hits using a specific data integration concept. This approach is an integrated analysis process of assembling and extracting the essence from divergent items of biological information. The process starts with the identification of primary biomarker candidates that are modified in the process under investigation. In the subsequent steps, attributes for each primary candidate are generated via the collection of additional types of information. These attributes are then expressed in binary, normalized numerical or other computable formats.
- values are multiplied by specific weighting factors that are applied empirically based on concepts that drive the prioritization strategy (e.g., ability to be converted into a drug and/or disease relevance) .
- the computed sum of weighted attribute values is used for sorting candidate biomarkers.
- the final list of candidates undergoes a manual bioanalysis process that evaluates the rationale for having each given candidate on the list one by one and establishes the final priority list.
- the invention is also directed to a handheld, light weight, battery operated, point of care, diagnostic device that is applicable to any biologically relevant tests including but not restricted to biomarker discovery and use.
- the apparatus is capable of carrying out specific biological tests for up to at least a dozen different biomarkers or other potential biological agents in minutes using an integrated microchip in the device that comprises sample preparation, separation and identification compartments.
- the diagnostic technology is based on specific recognition of antigens by monoclonal antibodies immobilized within the microchannels on the chip in the device.
- the tests are performed in rapid, high throughput fashion in a capillary or microfluidics chip format taking advantage of the very low or no diffusion limitation inherent with miniaturization. To prevent possible cross contamination the chip can be disposable.
- Fig. 1 is a representation of a scheme for a biomarker discovery and development platform according to the invention
- Figs. 2A and 2B are schematic diagrams of assays appropriate for use in the method according to the invention
- Fig. 3 a plot of relative biomarker levels in plasma for normal and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) subjects, represents the screening results for one candidate biomarker discovered by the method of the invention
- Fig. 4 a plot of relative biomarker levels in plasma for normal and COPD subjects, represents the screening results for a second candidate biomarker
- Fig. 1 is a representation of a scheme for a biomarker discovery and development platform according to the invention
- Figs. 2A and 2B are schematic diagrams of assays appropriate for use in the method according to the invention
- Fig. 3 a plot of relative biomarker levels in plasma for normal and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) subjects, represents the screening results for one candidate biomarker discovered by the method of the invention
- a plot of relative biomarker levels in plasma for normal and COPD subjects represents the screening results for a third candidate biomarker
- Fig. 6 is a representation of a high-throughput screening system according to the invention
- Fig. 7 is a representation of a high-throughput screening system according to the invention
- Fig. 8 is a representation of a high-throughput screening system according to the invention
- Fig. 9 is a schematic representation of the processes carried out using an integrated microchip in a handheld, point of care, diagnostic device according to the invention
- Fig. 10 is a perspective view of a handheld, point of care, diagnostic device according to the invention.
- the method of the invention is a rapid integrated, high-throughput, disease-specific monoclonal antibody (mAb) -based biomarker discovery platform that provides new biomarker candidates to accomplish the previously identified objectives.
- mAb monoclonal antibody
- the focus of the invention described herein is on large scale discovery and production of mAb-based, disease- specific clinical assay candidate biomarkers.
- a desired end outcome of the biomarker discovery process is a highly specific and sensitive assay.
- the method according to the invention integrates four major technology components: analyte collection, hybridoma screening, nanovolume integrated mass spectrometry (NVIMS) and systematic data analysis and integration.
- NIMS nanovolume integrated mass spectrometry
- the classical biomarker research and development process takes about 7-9 years from discovery to approval.
- the discovery phase of the process is relatively short (e.g., 1-3 years).
- the clinical feasibility phase, assay development, clinical validation, trial test and approval phases can take an additional 6-8 years.
- the mAb-based platform according to the invention because it uses clinical samples from a patient pool similar or identical to those patients in clinical trials, can achieve the clinical development and biomarker discovery phase simultaneously and saves up to, for example, 4-6 years of development time.
- the mAb-based strategy according to the invention is significantly faster than the classical biomarker discovery and development process.
- careful consideration is paid to the integration process of divergent but essential genomics, genetics, proteomics, metabolomics and bioinformatics technologies and the information derived from these.
- FIG. 1 An outline of a preferred embodiment of the platform system according to the invention is given in Fig. 1.
- This embodiment is designed for the discovery of early disease-specific clinical biomarkers, with the primary goals being (i) to reduce clinical trial length of candidate therapies for chronic diseases and (ii) to predict and follow treatment efficacy of new or marketed drugs.
- the platform with minor modifications is also applicable to the analysis of non-human samples and problems outside of disease diagnosis and treatment (e.g., ecological, drug and new food product testing and biohazard applications) .
- the complex analyte chosen as a source of potential biomarkers would vary.
- the platform of the invention comprises, but is not limited to, the following process steps that are numbered herein as (1) through (6) .
- Analyte collection achieves the generation of a small set of analyte samples that represent one or multiple diseases or experimental conditions with one or multiple sets of controls.
- the conditions are chosen to include clinical symptoms and/or disease stages that will have to be predicted by the newly discovered biomarkers before the actual appearance of the disease or condition outcome .
- the number of individual samples might not exceed 50 in any of the groups.
- pooled collections could be used at this stage.
- each subject is requested to provide samples for DNA testing. Sample collection is driven by clinical data and their interpretation, based on the best available medical practice. The resulting inclusion and exclusion criteria are set with physician experts and approved by regulatory bodies.
- Enrichment of the collected sample with respect to low abundance and/or disease-specific proteins can be performed based on any desired and suitable biological or physicochemical characteristics of the targeted complex analyte samples (e.g., concentration and/or mass) .
- a specific two step immunoaffinity absorption strategy described in detail in Example I, involves (i) depletion of the most abundant proteins (e.g., albumin and immunoglobulins from plasma) from the analyte pool as these proteins are not expected to have biomarker value yet might represent > 90% of the total protein and (ii) removal of proteins reacting with polyclonal antisera that are generated to one set of analytes in the pool, for example, the control.
- the resulting processed sample is, thus, enriched for proteins that were originally present only at low concentration (e.g., ⁇ 5%- 10%) and for proteins that might be present only in one set of the analytes.
- complex analyte samples can be pooled.
- Other enrichment strategies using ligand affinity chromatography or separation technologies that enrich proteins based on their size, charge or binding characteristics to, for example, other proteins can also be used.
- chemical treatments such as the oxidation of metriionine residues may improve the separation of protein properties .
- mice with enriched analyte samples The technical steps are as follows: (1) immunization of mice with enriched analyte samples; (2) hybridoma fusion; (3) culturing of fused hybridomas under limiting dilution conditions in microtitre wells; (4) harvesting of hybridoma supernatants; and (5) freezing and storage of hybridoma cells.
- Pre-validation biomarker hit generation via high- throughput screening of hybridoma supernatants (mAbs) on a first clinical collection
- mAbs hybridoma supernatants
- a well-characterized representative group of individual analyte samples e.g., 50 plasma samples from patients having a specific disease or disease condition and 50 samples from appropriate control subjects
- a high-throughput assay format is then developed to screen the analyte samples with the mAbs present in hybridoma supernatants. For example, in a capture micro-ELISA assay, an antibody/antigen reaction is made measurable by immobilization of mAbs and subsequent direct or indirect colorimetric, fluorescent, luminescent or radioactive detection of bound, labeled antigens.
- Biotinylation of a complex analyte sample results in the covalent linkage of biotin molecules to each individual protein or other complex analyte element via terminal and epsilon amino groups or hydroxyl groups. Provided that the biotinylation reaction is performed under saturating conditions, the majority, if not all, of the available terminal and epsilon amino groups or hydroxyl groups will be biotinylated.
- binding of biotinylated proteins is measured by the use of avidin or streptavidin labeled by enzymes, fluorophores or radioactive elements.
- a more precise quantification of individual (non-pooled) analyte elements becomes possible by titration of non-biotinylated individual complex analytes against fixed quantities (quasi-saturating conditions) of the biotinylated complex analyte.
- dilution factors serve as relative concentration values of individual proteins carrying an antigenic determinant recognized by the immobilized mAb.
- An example of the ELISA I measurement steps is given below and shown in Fig. 2A.
- the IgG from the hybridoma supernatant is captured on microtiter plates by immobilized anti-mouse—IgG-Fc.
- biotinylated pooled enriched complex analyte is used to detect an anti-biomarker reaction.
- non-enriched individual analyte samples are titrated to compete with fixed amounts of candidate biomarker, or a previously determined fixed analyte dilution is used for each individual analyte sample. Percent inhibition is deduced by computing maximal inhibition and assay signal values.
- the ELISA reaction described above is then used in a high throughput format to screen all hybridoma supernatants via the following steps.
- ELISA I screen all hybridoma supernatants (e.g., 1000- 50,000) against biotinylated complex and pooled analyte mix. (ii) Select those supernatants that score positive in the assay, (iii) Determine optimal, sub-saturating conditions for the selected supernatants.
- ELISA II Test dilutions of individual, non-biotinylated complex analytes in the presence of optimal, sub- saturating amounts of biotinylated pools of complex analyte to determine the 50% inhibitory dilutions that will serve as the relative measures of biomarker concentrations detected by a given mAB present in any individual hybridoma supernatant (Fig. 2B) .
- ELISA or microarray data are evaluated, e.g., by published methods.
- the goal of the data analysis process is the selection of hybridoma supernatants that show the best collection with an important clinical parameter and are specific to one of the analyte groups. Those hybridoma supernatants that do not give positive results (do not show a "hit") can be saved for screening against another analyte collection.
- an alternative strategy for mAb-based biomarker discovery is to use large non-redundant mAb libraries for biomarker discovery and screening via sensitive proteomics chips.
- complex analyte mixes are derived from the biological source via enrichment.
- Hybridoma supernatants are generated and antigen identification (ID) is carried out on each mAb containing supernatant.
- Screening of hybridoma supernatants is stopped when the process saturates and no new antigen IDs are observed.
- a non-redundant set of mAbs is produced in sufficient quantity for further proteomics chip screening.
- Chips can be constructed by the use of the entire library or by the use of portions of the library that represent specific classes of proteins, e.g. proteins that perform similar function or involved in the development of specific disease processes.
- NIMS Protein ID by nanovolume integrated mass spectrometry
- the small quantity of antibody present in 5- 2000 ⁇ l hybridoma supernatant is captured, and an advanced high- throughput mass spectrometry based technology is used. to identify the antigen to which it binds.
- Various methods useful in carrying out this step are described in Example II. Advances in proteomics technologies allow affinity purification of mAbs and the antigen that they recognize on the nano/pico-scale. A ng/pg quantity of mAb can be purified from sub-milliliter amounts of hybridoma supernatants and quasi- equimolar quantities of the antigen can also be purified.
- Nanovolume scale HPLC/CE columns in boundless or special microfluidics devices or nanowell plate devices can be coupled to high sensitivity FT-MS to achieve higlh-throughput protein ID, as described in Example II.
- L5 process starts with the identificatioxi of primary biomarker candidates from those identified in the mass spectrometry step that qualify because they are: (i) present in, (ii) up or down regulated by, (iii) chemically modified in, or (iv) represent genetic risk to the pathological, phys ological or experimental
- a "meta" value that weights the relevance of the given attribute to the query (example of a query: in the instance of a inflammatory reaction in response to an airborne allergen, what are the gene products most likely to be found in the vascular system surrounding the bronchioles?) .
- there is some precedent knowledge which is used to tune up the parameters used to derive the "meta" values from the original attribute values of the matrix such that the query returns the expected outcome for the known occurrence of the query. In other instances, such prior knowledge is not available (e.g., what are the cellular polypeptides released in the plasma in patients entering the initial phase of a given disease) .
- Data captured by the Monoclonal Antibody Based Biomarker Discovery and Development Platform are aimed at setting the appropriate parameters for deriving the "meta" values of the attributes.
- the ranking is based on either arithmetically or geometrically combining the meta values.
- the outcome is a sorted list with the most likely candidate ranked on the top.
- prioritization concepts are driven by biomarker need (e.g., response to treatment, disease progression, disease improvement and/or toxicity) and available data on specificity and sensitivity of the mAb-based assays. Then, bioanalyis is used to examine the top candidates one by one. If the data analysis is carried out in parallel with the screening and antigen ID steps, the bioanalysis step will select candidates for which screening assays can be repeated against individual samples for the generation of higher statistical confidence level mAb-based candidates.
- biomarker need e.g., response to treatment, disease progression, disease improvement and/or toxicity
- bioanalyis is used to examine the top candidates one by one. If the data analysis is carried out in parallel with the screening and antigen ID steps, the bioanalysis step will select candidates for which screening assays can be repeated against individual samples for the generation of higher statistical confidence level mAb-based candidates.
- Biomarker lead generation screening on an extended clinical collection
- a second discovery level validation step is deployed, which is performed on a larger analyte collection, typically 250 individual samples (e.g., patients or subjects) in each group.
- Exclusion and inclusion criteria are designed by clinical need (e.g., response or reaction to a drug treatment, improvement in a disease state, diagnosis of a disease etc. ) and by epidemiologic data, if available.
- each subject is requested to provide samples for DNA testing.
- mAb assays For the development of mAb assays that can be used on large cohorts and in clinical trials, a robust, mAb-based, research- level clinical assay is needed that shows a sufficient level of reproducibility, sensitivity and specificity.
- This assay is developed as a single ELISA-like or other single mAb-based assay or as an assay multiplexed from various mAbs or from various platforms such as, for example, qPCR, SNP or genotyping.
- hybridomas will have to be cloned and mAbs will have to be produced on a large scale via classical methods know to those persons skilled in the art.
- EXAMPLE I Enrichment for low abundance and/or disease process specific proteins, generation of hybridoma supernatants and screening
- a complex protein mix of human origin is collected from groups of subjects that are identified (e.g., by clinical tests) as having a common trait or condition. These groups may represent, for example, any of the variations described above. Pools of samples are prepared by mixing equal volumes of samples (e.g., plasma or serum from the individual patients). Abundant proteins are then depleted from individual pools via a two-step affinity chromatography procedure so that antibodies can be generated to the low abundancy or low level proteins in the pool. These have a greater likelihood of being of diagnostic interest and of having biomarker potential.
- the first depletion step uses column chromatography against immobilized antibodies or ligands having specific affinity to a few of the most abundant proteins typically found in the type of sample being analyzed. This approach has typically achieved a 10-fold enrichment of the mixture for low level proteins.
- the flow through from this column, the "first cleared mix,” is collected and subjected to the second step of separation.
- the first cleared mix is loaded onto a column containing, for example, immobilized polyclonal antibody prepared against the complex analyte mix control (e.g., serum or plasma proteins) or against one of the specific pools that are being compared; or immobilized antibody representing a mix of, e.g., 20-500 monoclonal antibodies to specific components of the complex protein mix.
- the flow through of this column is collected.
- This two step approach initial depletion steps using targeted ligands followed by a polyclonal antibody column against other antigens in the control mix, achieves a much more complete depletion of abundant proteins.
- the depletion process is monitored by, for example, ID or 2D gel electrophoresis and LC/MS analysis. Analysis of the second cleared mix shows that the analyte population has been enriched more than 20-fold for proteins that were less abundant in the original sample.
- the complex analyte to be screened was chosen so as to look for biomarker candidates that show a relationship to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) .
- COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- FIG. 3 shows the results of an inhibition assay carried out with patient plasma protein at a concentration of 8 ⁇ g/ml using cleared normal biotinylated plasma protein.
- this test clearly differentiates 18 COPD plasma samples from 18.normal plasma samples with no data overlaps between the two groups.
- the results show a mean COPD relative biomarker ELISA percent inhibition value of 45.65 (SD +/- 9.47) and mean normal relative biomarker ELISA percent inhibition value of 89.57 (SD +/- 8.93) .
- the results were determined to be significant with the Student's paired T test.
- P value ⁇ 0.0001; here, the p values were obtained with the Mann Whitney test, which is insensitive to group inhomogeneity.
- Fig. 3 shows the results of an inhibition assay carried out with patient plasma protein at a concentration of 8 ⁇ g/ml using cleared normal biotinylated plasma protein.
- EXAMPLE II Large scale protein (antigen) purification and identification
- This example describes the preparation of an industrial scale process based on existing technology demonstrating the use of mass spectrometry for hybridoma characterization.
- This improved industrial scale process couples different devices that allow high-throughput manipulations (e.g., microfluidics chips, nanowells and/or individual or bundled capillaries) to sensitive mass spectrometer (s) such as FT-MS.
- the process of the invention requires significantly less mAb for antigen identification than prior art processes due to miniaturization of the analytical device.
- capillaries, nanowells and/or microchips are sequentially arranged as functional units/surfaces that: (i) bind and concentrate 0.1-100 ⁇ g mAb specifically via the Fc portion and allow the rest of the hybridoma supernatant to exit the system; (ii) allow micro/nano- scale affinity binding and elution of individual analyte species to/from the mAb(s) present in individual hybridoma supernatants and, thus, allow elution and concentration of affinity purified quasi-homogeneous analyte species from complex analyte protein mixtures; (iii) digest the concentrated homogeneous analyte species with appropriate proteolytic enzyme (s) (e.g., trypsin) for subsequent MS analysis; and (iv) allow easy processing of the digested analyte for loading onto a mass spectrometer.
- proteolytic enzyme e.g., trypsin
- Samples at this stage are transited to a specific coupling and loading unit that injects the sample into the mass spectrometer for analysis.
- a specific coupling and loading unit that injects the sample into the mass spectrometer for analysis.
- anti-mouse IgG heavy chain Ab or protein G will be bonded, for example, onto the silica surfaces of microbore capillaries or microfluidicschannels or the siloxane surfaces of nanowells to form highly controlled affinity surfaces. These will be used in high-throughput screening (HTS) processes with no diffusion limitation.
- HTS high-throughput screening
- Fig. 6 is a schematic of the process steps. Referring to Fig. 6, the background in the hybridoma supernatant is assessed by flushing the supernatant through the immunoaffinity trapping chamber to saturate the affinity surface with IgG (1-»AB—»2) .
- the chamber (AB) contains the immobilized immunoaffinity trapping agent (e.g., anti-mouse IgG heavy chain or protein G) .
- the trapped IgGs are washed with phosphate buffered saline (PBS) (1—AB—2) and then eluted with an acidic buffer system into the digestion chamber.
- PBS phosphate buffered saline
- the pH is adjusted through outlet 2 during the transfer (mixing) .
- the inner wall of the digestion chamber is covalently covered by an appropriate enzyme (e.g., trypsin) and the reaction surface can also be increased, as described above, by using beads in microcapillaries or microfabricated poles in microfluidics devices.
- the digested sample is transferred from exit port 3 and subjected to MS/MS or ⁇ LC-MS/MS analysis (D ⁇ 3) .
- the affinity surface of the immunoaffinity trapping chamber is first saturated by the IgG from the hybridoma supernatant (1—»AB—2) . This step is followed by perfusion with the antigen mixture (1—»AB—»2) . Then, the chamber is washed with PBS (1—»AB-»2) , and the IgG-antigen complex is eluted with an acidic elution buffer into the digestion chamber (D) . The pH is adjusted through outlet 2 during the transfer (mixing) . After complete digestion, the digested sample is subject to MS/MS or ⁇ LC-MS/MS analysis (D-»3) .
- Another strategy can involve separation of the digestion product of the background determination and the screening steps by a serially connected HPLC column.
- the non-identical peaks are collected and subjected to MS/MS or ⁇ LC-MS/MS analysis.
- a different strategy, shown in Fig. 7, involves HPLC separation between the two chambers (i.e., only the non- identical peaks are digested and injected to the MS/MS or ⁇ LC- MS/MS system) .
- mAbs hybridoma supernatants
- the resulting assays are then used for large-scale validation of biomarkers in patient samples in large cross-sectional studies, for example, validation of earlier analyzed collections, and longitudinal clinical studies, for example, clinical trials.
- large scale protein screening is carried out using nanowell polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) plates with immobilized linkers in each well (e.g., using avidin, protein A, Protein G and/or specific anti-Ig heavy chain) capable of high- throughput screening of complex analytes (e.g., full plasma proteins or purified disease-specific low abundance proteins) .
- the binding assay is accomplished in the nanowells. After all non-specific and unbonded material is washed out, the binding linker is cleaved.
- the released proteins are digested either in situ for nano-ESI/MS (e.g., nanomate) or transferred to a digestion enzyme-containing membrane that will act as MALDI plate for MS interrogation.
- a digestion enzyme-containing membrane that will act as MALDI plate for MS interrogation.
- two or more parallel wells can be used, one for the binding measurement with a reporter only (e.g., fluorescence) the other being used for digestion and MS analysis.
- Nano-ELISA involves protein A, protein G or gamma Ig being immobilized in the nanowells.
- the immunoglobulin binds to the immobilized linker and then is available to bind the candidate biomarker from the complex analyte sample (e.g., plasma or pooled plasma, "cleared plasma” or pooled cleared plasma) .
- a screening assay to identify hybridoma supernatants that react with pooled complex analyte mixtures uses biotinylated complex analyte (e.g., total plasma proteins or pooled and depleted cleared plasma and/or plasma mixtures) . If binding is detected, a biomarker hit has been identified. In semi-quantitative differential screenings, two or more samples of complex analyte pools are compared.
- pooled total plasma protein or pooled low abundance protein from a point of care assay and a control, both biotinylated, could be compared. Detection of a signal intensity difference identifies a biomarker hit.
- a quantitative screening assay of individual complex analyte samples builds on the first assay. Non-biotinylated individual complex analyte samples are titrated and described but this time, only a selected set of hybridoma supernatants are screened, those that were identified as hits in the first assay. Titration curves provide quantitative measure of specific antigen concentration in each individual analyte sample.
- IC50 values will be used for comparison and statistical analysis of the entire tested set of individual complex analytes (e.g., a set of 50 disease plasma samples) will be compared to a set of healthy control plasma samples .
- Detection can be by, for example, fluorescence, radioactive, colorimetric, proximity or enzymatic techniques as appropriate.
- avidin-biotin-peroxidase (ABC) complexes are used to measure binding or binding and competition of biotinylated complex analyte samples as would be appropriate.
- Parallel microwells or microfabricated microfluidics devices are used for protein ID. Loading of purified protein for ID to MALDI is electronically or manually driven by screening results and performed accordingly (e.g., on all hits).
- EXAMPLE III Hand-held point of care device A handheld, light weight, battery operated, point of care, diagnostic device is being developed that is applicable to any biologically relevant tests, including but not restricted to biomarker discovery and use.
- the apparatus runs specific biological tests for up to at least a dozen different biomarkers or other potential biological agents in minutes using an integrated microchip in the device that comprises sample preparation, separation and identification compartments.
- the diagnostic technology is based on specific recognition of antigens by monoclonal antibodies immobilized within the microchannels on the chip in the device.
- the tests are performed in rapid, high throughput fashion in a capillary or microfluidics chip format taking advantage of the very low or no diffusion limitation inherent with miniaturization. To prevent possible cross contamination the chip can be disposable. Referring to Fig.
- an exemplary point of care device includes a sample injection port (12) and an assay readout window (14) .
- a schematic representation of the processes carried out using the device shown in Fig. 10 and the mode of operation of channels and compartments within the device is given. that uses miniaturized detection methods can be readily used during clinical trials in HTS mode.
- the sample in this case is driven into the innunoaffinity trapping chamber (AB capture) through a sample processing compartment (CL) in order to remove particles and components that may disturb proper affinity capture.
- AB capture innunoaffinity trapping chamber
- CL sample processing compartment
- Detection is accomplished by miniaturized methods according to established procedures, e.g., by fluorescence, radioactive, colorimetric, proximity or enzymatic techniques as appropriate.
- avidin/biotin- peroxidase (ABC) complexes are used to measure binding or binding and competition of biotinylated complex analyte samples, as appropriate with a high throughput manner.
- AAC biotin- peroxidase
- Vector multichannel capillary electrophoresis can be employed with mAb capture feature and fluorescent or chemiluminescent detection technology.
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