Example 18
An in situ mix containing final concentrations of 1.95 mM compound 99 and 1.5 mM sulfo-SPDB Linker in DMA containing 10 mM N,N-Diisopropylethyl amine (DIPEA) was incubated for 20 min before capping with 4 mM maleimidopropionic acid MPA. A 6-fold excess of the resulting 99-sulfo-SPDB-NHS was added to a reaction containing 2.5 mg/ml huMOV19 antibody in 15 mM HEPES pH 8.5 (82:18 water: DMA). The solution was allowed to conjugate over night at 25° C.
Post-reaction, the conjugate was purified and buffer exchanged into 20 mM histidine, 50 mM sodium chloride, 8.5% sucrose, 0.01% Tween-20, 50 μM sodium bisulfite formulation buffer pH 6.2 using NAP desalting columns (Illustra Sephadex G-25 DNA Grade, GE Healthcare). Dialysis was performed in the same buffer over night at 4° C. utilizing Slide-a-Lyzer dialysis cassettes (ThermoScientific 10,000 MWCO).
The purified conjugate was found to have an average of 1.6 molecules of compound 99 linked per antibody (by UV/Vis using molar extinction coefficients ε330 nm=15,484 cm−1M−1 and ε280 nm=30, 115 cm−1M−1 for compound 99, and ε280 nm=201,400 cm−1M−1 for huMOV19 antibody), 99% monomer (by size exclusion chromatography), and a final protein concentration of 0.59 mg/ml. The MS spectrometry data is shown in