Lysates (CL) R10H020 R10H021 R10H022 R10H023
  D7 D11 D15 D7 D11 D15 D7 D11 D15 D7 D11 D15
Tubulin a-1B 18 17 18 20 19 16 16 20 16 21 19 16
Tubulin-b 20 23 20 23 21 21 19 23 20 24 23 18
Tubulin b-2C 18 21 16 22 21 19 18 22 18 23 22 16
actin-b 20 21 21 24 22 23 22 19 16 21 22 13
Gapdh 17 20 19 20 22 20 16 19 17 20 19 14
H-ch 19 21 23 20 21 21 20 20 20 22 20 20
L-ch 9 11 12 11 12 12 12 11 11 12 12 10
Sum 121 134 129 140 138 132 123 134 118 143 137 107
Norm. Factor 1 0.903 0.938 0.8643 0.8768 0.9167 0.9837 0.903 1.0254 0.8462 0.8832 1.1308
Supernatants(SP) R10H020 R10H021 R10H022 R10H023
  D7 D11 D15 D7 D11 D15 D7 D11 D15 D7 D11 D15
H-ch 36 40 41 36 37 42 38 40 41 40 38 42
L-ch 23 20 22 16 20 21 16 21 21 21 19 21
Sum 59 60 63 52 57 63 54 61 62 61 57 63
Norm. Factor 1 0.9833 0.9365 1.1346 1.0351 0.9365 1.0926 0.9672 0.9516 0.9672 1.035 0.937
The peptide count of these selected proteins in each sample was summed up, and the sum obtained from H20D7_CL and H20D7_SP samples (121 and 59, respectively), were arbitrarily set as normalization standard, i.e., possessing a normalization factor (NF) of 1. Normalization of the proteins in other samples was accomplished by dividing the total peptide counts of these house-keeping proteins by that of H20D7_CL or H20D7_SP, for samples derived from cell lysates or culture supernatants, respectively. House-keeping proteins used for CL samples included glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, actin β, tubulin β, tubulin α-1β and tubulin β-2C. Additionally, the H-ch and the L-ch of the therapeutic protein being expressed by the cell were included in this normalization process. For the data generated from SP samples, the normalization process used only the H-ch and L-ch of the therapeutic ab being expressed by the cell line. This was necessary as the above house-keeping genes were either undetectable or present in very low levels in the SP samples. Even though the H-ch and L-ch protein bands were largely avoided during the sample preparation step (described above in the sample preparation section), sufficient quantities of both of these proteins were still retained in the sample to justify using them as housekeeping genes.
Table 2: Normalization of the data generated from D11 and D15 bioreactor samples.
Top panel: Intra-cellular proteins; Bottom panel: Secreted proteins.