Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Xiao-Jin Xu

Cuihua Liu

Shiming Dong

Jonathan C Lansing

Yanjie Jiang

Carlos J Bosques

Nathaniel J Washburn

Jennifer Murphy

Hetal Sarvaiya

Guy Dellorusso

Methods of producing recombinant therapeutic fusion proteins described herein can include culturing Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells under conditions suitable for expression of a recombinant therapeutic fusion protein including one or more glycans, where the CHO cells have not been genetically engineered to produce terminal alpha-galactosyl residues on glycans; treating the one or more glycans of the recombinant glycoprotein with one or more exoglycosidases; measuring glycans containing terminal galactose-alpha-1-3-galactose residues on the fusion protein by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR); and producing a recombinant therapeutic fusion protein in the CHO cells if a target level of terminal galactose-alpha-1-3-galactose residues is measured.

Galactose-alpha-1, 3-galactose-containing n-glycans in glycoprotein products derived from CHO cells

Methods of analyzing glatiramer acetate (GA) or a polymeric precursor thereof are provided. The methods can include determining a level of one or more diethylamide-modified amino acids in a sample comprising GA or a polymeric precursor thereof, and selecting at least a portion of the sample based on the assessment of the one or more diethylamide-modified amino acids in the sample.

Evaluation of copolymer diethylamide

The present disclosure provides methods for analyzing structure and/or composition of glycoproteins and glycans of glycoproteins. Such methods can include subjecting a glycoprotein preparation to a condition that removes at least one O-linked glycan from the glycoprotein. Such methods can include subjecting a glycoprotein preparation to a condition that releases an N-glycan from the glycoprotein, e.g., prior to subjecting the glycoprotein to a condition that releases an O-glycan from the glycoprotein.

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The present invention provides methods of evaluating CHO cells.

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Jamaica Plain, MA, United States of America

Xiao-Jin Xu