Capillary electrophoresis represents a promising technique in the field of pharmaceutical analysis. The presented review provides a summary of capillary electrophoretic methods suitable for routine quality control analyses of small molecule drugs published since 2015. In total, more than 80 discussed methods are sorted into three main sections according to the applied electroseparation modes (capillary zone electrophoresis, electrokinetic chromatography, and micellar, microemulsion, and liposome-electrokinetic chromatography) and further subsections according to the applied detection techniques (UV, capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection, and mass spectrometry). Key parameters of the procedures are summarized in four concise tables. The presented applications cover analyses of active pharmaceutical ingredients and their related substances such as degradation products or enantiomeric impurities. The contribution of reported results to the current knowledge of separation science and general aspects of the practical applications of capillary electrophoretic methods are also discussed.
After a presence of highly hepatotoxic and potentially carcinogenic N-nitrosodimethylamine was detected in certain lots of sartan, ranitidine, metformin, and other pharmaceuticals, local regulatory authorities issued recalls of suspected products, and concerns of the pharmacotherapy safety were widely discussed. Since then, testing of a representative sample of each produced lot of these pharmaceuticals is required as a part of quality control processes. Hence, an interface-free CE-nanoESI system coupled with MS detection was employed for the development of a simple and economical method for quantitative detection of this contaminant in the valsartan drug substances and finished formulations used as model matrices. In this arrangement, a fused-silica capillary was used as both a separation column and a nanoESI emitter providing high ionization efficiency and sensitivity. The optimized procedure was found to have sufficient selectivity, linearity, accuracy, and precision. The established LOD and LOQ values were 0.3 and 1.0 ng/mL, respectively. The practical applicability of the method was tested by analyses of commercially available Valsacor® tablets. The results obtained prove that the developed procedure represents a promising alternative to currently available GC- and LC-based methods. Furthermore, after an adjustment of the separation conditions, the CE-nanoESI/MS system can be conceptually used for the determination of NDMA in other suspected pharmaceuticals.
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- dimethylnitrosamin analýza MeSH
- elektroforéza kapilární metody MeSH
- hmotnostní spektrometrie s elektrosprejovou ionizací metody MeSH
- kontaminace léku * MeSH
- lineární modely MeSH
- nanotechnologie MeSH
- reprodukovatelnost výsledků MeSH
- senzitivita a specificita MeSH
- tablety MeSH
- valsartan chemie MeSH
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- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
Plant vascular tissue is essential for the exchange of water, nutrients, metabolic products, and signals among distant organs in cormophytes. The compositions of phloem and xylem saps are highly dependent on many internal and external factors, and thus their analysis provides a valuable insight into plant physiology, growth, and development as well as nutrition status or presence of biotic or abiotic stresses. Capillary electrophoresis characterized by highly efficient separations and minuscule sample requirements represents a suitable analytical technique for this purpose because the sap constitutes a complex mixture with generally minimal availability. This review aims at providing a comprehensive overview of published capillary electrophoretic methods for the analysis of primary components present in the phloem and xylem saps of higher plants.
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, currently afflicting almost 40 million patients worldwide. According to the amyloid cascade hypothesis, the pathogenesis of the disease could be slowed down or even stopped by the inhibition of beta-secretase, making this aspartic acid protease a potentially important drug target site. Capillary electrophoresis is a promising technique for screening putative enzyme inhibitors due to highly effective separations, minuscule sample and other chemicals consumption, compatibility with a variety of detection techniques, and high throughput via automation. This chapter presents a method based on capillary electrophoresis coupled to mass spectrometry detection for kinetic and inhibition assays of the beta-secretase reaction with a decapeptide derived from an amyloid precursor protein.
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- Alzheimerova nemoc farmakoterapie metabolismus MeSH
- amyloidový prekurzorový protein beta metabolismus MeSH
- aspartátové endopeptidasy metabolismus MeSH
- elektroforéza kapilární metody MeSH
- hmotnostní spektrometrie metody MeSH
- inhibitory enzymů farmakologie MeSH
- inhibitory proteas farmakologie MeSH
- kinetika MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- plošný screening metody MeSH
- sekretasy antagonisté a inhibitory MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
The market share of single-enantiomer drugs is steadily increasing. The pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of individual enantiomers can differ considerably. Thus, their characteristics have to be addressed as early as possible in the development process of new pharmaceuticals. Capillary electrophoresis is a promising technique for enantioselective drug metabolism studies due to highly effective separations, minuscule consumption of sample and reagents, compatibility with a variety of detection techniques, high-throughput via automation, and the implementation of online procedures. An online method comprised of the diffusion-based mixing of cytochrome P450 3A4 with racemic ketamine, incubation of the enzyme reaction, separation of the reaction products S- and R-norketamine, and their quantification is presented in this chapter. Since diffusion is an inherent property of all molecules, the method enables the addition of virtually any compound to the reaction mixture without the need for additional optimization of the mixing conditions, and thus can be favorably used for the rapid screening of putative cytochrome P450 3A4 inhibitors.
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- cytochrom P-450 CYP3A metabolismus MeSH
- elektroforéza kapilární metody MeSH
- inhibitory cytochromu P450 CYP3A farmakologie MeSH
- ketamin analogy a deriváty farmakologie MeSH
- kinetika MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- plošný screening metody MeSH
- stereoizomerie MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
Capillary electrophoresis integrated immobilized enzyme reactors are becoming an increasingly popular alternative for enzyme kinetic and inhibition assays thanks to their unique set of features including cost effectiveness, repeated use of the enzyme, minuscule sample consumption, rapid analysis time and easy automation. In this work we present the development and application of a capillary electrophoresis integrated immobilized enzyme reactor based on magnetic particles for kinetic and inhibition studies of β-secretase, a key enzyme in the development of Alzheimer's disease and a promising drug target. We document the optimization of the immobilization procedure, characterization of immobilized β-secretase, optimization of a mutually compatible incubation protocol and separation method as well as the production of the capillary electrophoresis integrated immobilized enzyme reactor. The applicability of the capillary electrophoresis integrated immobilized enzyme reactor was demonstrated by kinetic assay with an unlabelled substrate and by inhibition assays using three structurally different reference inhibitors. The resulting kinetic and inhibition parameters clearly support the applicability of the herein presented method as well as document the fundamental phenomena which need to be taken in account when comparing the results to other methods.
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- Alzheimerova nemoc farmakoterapie metabolismus MeSH
- bioreaktory * MeSH
- elektroforéza kapilární MeSH
- enzymy imobilizované antagonisté a inhibitory chemie metabolismus MeSH
- HEK293 buňky MeSH
- inhibitory enzymů chemie farmakologie MeSH
- kinetika MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- peptidy chemie farmakologie MeSH
- sekretasy antagonisté a inhibitory chemie metabolismus MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, afflicting over 34 million patients worldwide. Since β-secretase is a rate-limiting enzyme of the production of neurotoxic β-amyloid peptide oligomers abnormally accumulated in the affected brain tissue, its specific inhibition appears to be a promising approach to slowing down or even stopping the progression of the disease. Hence two on-line capillary electrophoretic methods for studies of β-secretase activity based on the principles of transverse diffusion of laminar flow profiles and electrophoretically mediated microanalysis were developed, both using a simple unlabeled peptide substrate and UV detection. The optimized procedures were thoroughly validated and applied for determining the enzyme's kinetic parameters and the inhibition characteristics of two potent probe inhibitors. The resulting values were found to be comparable to literature data obtained with other analytical techniques. The suitability of the employed methodologies for different experimental designs is discussed on the basis of a statistical evaluation of the experimental data. The presented methods constitute a miniaturized and fully automated tool, which should be suitable for kinetic and inhibition studies of β-secretase as a target for Alzheimer's disease drug discovery in the early stages of the development of a new drug.
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- aktivace enzymů účinky léků MeSH
- Alzheimerova nemoc enzymologie MeSH
- elektroforéza kapilární normy MeSH
- enzymatické testy přístrojové vybavení metody MeSH
- inhibitory enzymů farmakologie MeSH
- kinetika MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- objevování léků * MeSH
- sekretasy antagonisté a inhibitory MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- srovnávací studie MeSH
In this work a novel capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) based method was developed and validated for the assay of β-secretase (BACE1) activity as a potential target for Alzheimer's disease (AD) treatment. In contrast with the typically used Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) assays, an unlabelled decapeptide derived from the amyloid precursor protein BACE1 site with the "Swedish mutation" was used as the substrate. The CE usage enabled the enzymatic reaction to be carried out in as small a volume as 100μL in 60min with sufficient yields of proteolytic product, which was subsequently separated in a bare fused silica capillary using 12.5% acetic acid as a background electrolyte and detected by MS. The limits of detection and quantitation were estimated using the signal to noise ratio to be 5nM (S/N=3) and 15nM (S/N=10), respectively, both being well below the working range for kinetic and inhibition studies. Its applicability for the kinetic study of BACE1 was demonstrated using optimized enzyme assay conditions and the estimated kinetic parameter values were confirmed by classic CE-UV analyses. The method was finally used for the main purpose for which it was developed - to screen BACE1 inhibitors as potential AD therapeutics. The resulting kinetic and inhibition parameters values were compared to those published in the literature, which were almost exclusively obtained by FRET based assays. These comparisons brought up several issues that are further discussed below and favour the application of an unlabelled substrate. The proposed CE-MS based method offers a high-throughput capability for new drug development.
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- Alzheimerova nemoc farmakoterapie MeSH
- aspartátové endopeptidasy antagonisté a inhibitory MeSH
- elektroforéza kapilární metody MeSH
- HEK293 buňky MeSH
- hmotnostní spektrometrie metody MeSH
- inhibitory proteas analýza terapeutické užití MeSH
- kinetika MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- preklinické hodnocení léčiv metody MeSH
- sekretasy antagonisté a inhibitory MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- validační studie MeSH
The establishment of an efficient reaction mixture represents a crucial part of capillary electrophoresis based on-line enzymatic assays. For ketamine N-demethylation to norketamine mediated by the cytochrome P450 3A4 enzyme, mixing of enzyme and reactants in the incubation buffer at physiological pH was studied by computer simulation. A dynamic electrophoretic simulator that encompasses Taylor-Aris diffusivity which accounts for dispersion due to the parabolic flow profile associated with pressure driven flow was utilized. The simulator in the diffusion mode was used to predict transverse diffusional reactant mixing occurring during hydrodynamic plug injection of configurations featuring four and seven plugs. The same simulator in the electrophoretic mode was applied to study electrophoretic reactant mixing caused by voltage application in absence of buffer flow. Resulting conclusions were experimentally verified with enantioselective analysis of norketamine in a background electrolyte at low pH. Furthermore, simulations visualize buffer changes that occur upon power application between incubation buffer and background electrolyte and have an influence on the reaction mixture.
(-)-Linalool is the major floral scent occurring mainly in families Lamiaceae, Lauraceae and Rutaceae and is the main active compound of lavender oil. The purpose of this study was to reveal the influence of subchronic systemic treatment with (-)-linalool on the metabolic activity of CYP2A, 2B, 2C6, 2C11 and 3A in rat liver microsomes (RLM). The second aim was to reveal possible inhibitory effect of (-)-linalool on CYP2C6 in vitro. Wistar albino male rats were treated with (-)-linalool intragastrically at the doses of 40, 120, and 360 mg/kg/day for 13 days. Treatment with (-)-linalool at the dose of 360 mg/kg increased the metabolic activity of CYP2A assessed with testosterone as a probe substrate. (-)-Linalool showed weak competitive inhibition of CYP2C6 in rat liver microsomes, with IC(50) of 84 microM with use of diclofenac as a probe substrate.
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- insekticidy farmakologie MeSH
- jaterní mikrozomy účinky léků enzymologie MeSH
- játra účinky léků enzymologie MeSH
- krysa rodu rattus MeSH
- monoterpeny farmakologie MeSH
- potkani Wistar MeSH
- systém (enzymů) cytochromů P-450 účinky léků metabolismus MeSH
- vztah mezi dávkou a účinkem léčiva MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- krysa rodu rattus MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
