Purification process development for HER1 extracellular domain as a potential therapeutic vaccine

HER1 is a tumor associated antigen emerging as an attractive target for cancer therapy. In the present study we demonstrated for first time that HER1 extracellular domain can be purified by a downstream process at pilot scale based on immunoaffinity chromatography from bioreactor supernatant of HEK 293 transfectomes. Filtered supernatant was applied to CNBr-activated Sepharose CL-4B with monoclonal antibody anti-human EGF immobilized, followed by three additional chromatographic polishing steps. HER1 extracellular domain was obtained with high purity (>95%), low DNA content, and biological activity.