Multiplexed Microfluidic Cartridge for At-Line Protein Monitoring in Mammalian Cell Culture Processes for Biopharmaceutical Production

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Abstract

The biopharmaceutical market has been rapidly growing in recent years, creating a highly competitive arena where R&D is critical to strike a balance between clinical safety and profitability. Toward process optimization, the recent development and adoption of new process analytical technologies (PAT) highlight the dynamic complexity of mammalian/human cell culture processes, as well as the importance of fine-tuning and modeling key metabolites and proteins. In this context, simple, rapid, and cost-effective devices allowing routine at-line monitoring of specific proteins during process development and production are currently lacking. Here, we report the development of a versatile microfluidic protein analysis cartridge allowing the multiplexed bead-based immunodetection of specific proteins directly from complex mixtures with minimal hands-on time. Colorimetric quantification of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) host cell proteins as key impurities, monoclonal antibodies as target biopharmaceuticals, and lactate dehydrogenase as a marker of cell viability was achieved with limits of detection in the 1-10 ng/mL range and analysis times as short as 30 min. The device was further demonstrated for the monitoring of a Rituximab-producing CHO cell bioreactor over the course of 8 days, providing comparable recoveries to standard enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits. The high sensitivity combined with robustness to matrix interference highlights the potential of the device to perform at-line measurements spanning from the bioreactor to the downstream processing.

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Pinto, I. F., Soares, R. R. G., Mäkinen, M. E. L., Chotteau, V., & Russom, A. (2021). Multiplexed Microfluidic Cartridge for At-Line Protein Monitoring in Mammalian Cell Culture Processes for Biopharmaceutical Production. ACS Sensors, 6(3), 842–851. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.0c01884

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