A Series of Collaborations Between Various Pharmaceutical Companies and Regulatory Authorities Concerning the Analysis of Biomolecules Using Capillary Electrophoresis

An international project team (including members from US, Canada and UK) has been formed from a number of interested biopharmaceutical companies and regulatory authorities to conduct a cross-organisation collaboration exercise. The results from this exercise demonstrate the robustness of CE-SDS across eight different organisations that used instruments of the same equipment model, the same reagents, and the same methodology. Data generated from the analysis of a series of molecular weight markers showed very good precision with regards to relative migration time (RMT) both within and between organisations. The apparent molecular weight of bovine serum albumin (BSA) was measured with good precision to within approximately 2% RSD across the participants. A representative IgG sample showed similar results with regards to relative migration time of its 3 main components, IgG Light Chain, IgG Non-glycosylated Heavy Chain, and IgG Heavy Chain. Fractional peak area for each peak also showed good agreement, with less than 9% RSD for all peaks. This exercise will facilitate both increased regulatory and industrial opinion of CE for biopharmaceutical analysis.CE in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Industries: 7th Symposium on the Practical Applications for the Analysis of Proteins, Nucleotides and Small Molecules, Montreal, Canada, August 12–16, 2005     

A Series of Collaborations between Various Pharmaceutical Companies and Regulatory Authorities Concerning the Analysis of Biomolecules Using Capillary Electrophoresis: Additional Instruments/Buffer

An international project team (including members from US, Canada and UK) was formed from a number of interested biopharmaceutical companies and regulatory authorities to conduct a cross-organisation collaboration exercise. The results of the first comparison with eight different organisations that used instruments of the same equipment model, the same reagents, and the same methodology has been reported previously [1]. This report represents the addition of other instruments using a different run buffer. The relative migration times were different, as expected, prohibiting a direct comparison between companies. The within-organisation variability was low for both relative migration time (<0.34% RSD% for all companies save one) and the peak area (<5% RSD% for all companies save one) when measuring the purity of a representative IgG sample. The apparent molecular weight of bovine serum albumin was measured with good precision (less than 10% RSD% across all companies) to the theoretical value when all data is utilized (67.5 kDa compared to 66.4 kDa). For a representative IgG sample, the three main components, IgG Light Chain, IgG Non-glycosylated Heavy Chain, and IgG Heavy Chain, could not be separated, specifically the IgG Non-glycosylated Heavy Chain and IgG Heavy Chain. When the IgG Non-glycosylated Heavy Chain and IgG Heavy Chain were combined for all organisations, the fractional peak area for the IgG Light Chain and IgG Non-glycosylated Heavy Chain + IgG Heavy Chain peak also showed excellent agreement, with less than 7.5 and 3.5% RSD%, respectively. The value of this exercise is in demonstrating the reliability of CE for the determination of apparent size of biopharmaceutical proteins. This underpins the appropriate use of such CE data in support of regulatory submissions.     

Application of factor analysis in EDXRF

 The application of factor analysis in EDXRF as a method for evaluation of elemental concentrations and calculation of net peak areas is demonstrated in two examples. A quantitative PCR-analysis of sulphur interfered with by molybdenum could be performed by using the XRF-spectra as input with a standard error of analysis (SEA) below 0.2 mg/g for aqueous and 3.6 mg/g for solid samples. By using PCR-predicted net peak areas as input for the empirical evaluation method developed by Lucas-Tooth and Price, the SEA for solid samples could be decreased to 2.3 mg/g. The comparison of PCR to PLS showed no significant difference. Received: 25 October 1996/Revised: 6 March 1997/Accepted: 10 March 1997     

Development of a Chromatographic Fingerprint of Tobacco Flavor by Use of GC and GC-MS

A new chromatographic fingerprinting method has been established for quality control of tobacco flavor. Three different extraction techniques, simultaneous distillation extraction (SDE), liquid–liquid extraction, and solid-phase microextraction were evaluated for isolation of the components of interest. After comparison of their performance, a combination of SDE and GC-MS was used for simple, reliable, and reproducible development of a chromatographic fingerprint of tobacco flavor. Twelve samples of the flavor from different batches were used to establish the fingerprint. Thirty-nine volatile components of the tobacco flavor samples, accounting for 86.54% of the total content, were identified and quantified. The 12 samples had 28 peaks in common. The method of fingerprint analysis was then validated on the basis of the relative retention times and relative peak areas of the common peaks, sample stability, and similarity analysis. The similarities of the 12 samples of tobacco flavor were >0.80, showing that samples from different batches were, to some extent, consistent. The chromatographic fingerprint developed was successfully used to differentiate tobacco flavor samples from tobacco extract prepared from tobacco leaf, both by similarity comparison and by principal-components projection analysis. The method can be used for quality control of tobacco flavor.     

分析测试新成果(238~242)电线塑料护套的傅立叶变换红外光谱分析

采用傅立叶变换红外光谱法对21个5种不同颜色的电线塑料护套样品进行了分析.从红外光谱图中可观察到样品特征峰的峰数、峰位、相对峰面积比均有差异,但可以归纳为两大类.其中同种颜色的不同样品在红外谱图中又反映出了不同的信息,这表明在外观颜色十分相近的情况下,采用此方法能够有效的为刑事案件现场遗留的各种塑料制品提供鉴别与比对.     

ZoomQuant: An application for the quantitation of stable isotope labeled peptides

The main goal of comparative proteomics is the quantitation of the differences in abundance of many proteins between two different biological samples in a single experiment. By differentially labeling the peptides from the two samples and combining them in a single analysis, relative ratios of protein abundance can be accurately determined. Protease catalyzed (18)O exchange is a simple method to differentially label peptides, but the lack of robust software tools to analyze the data from mass spectra of (18)O labeled peptides generated by common ion trap mass spectrometers has been a limitation. ZoomQuant is a stand-alone computational tool that analyzes the mass spectra of (18)O labeled peptides from ion trap instruments and determines relative abundance ratios between two samples. Starting with a filtered list of candidate peptides that have been successfully identified by Sequest, ZoomQuant analyzes the isotopic forms of the peptides using high-resolution zoom scan spectrum data. The theoretical isotope distribution is determined from the peptide sequence and is used to deconvolute the peak areas associated with the unlabeled, partially labeled, and fully labeled species. The ratio between the labeled and unlabeled peptides is then calculated using several different methods. ZoomQuant's graphical user interface allows the user to view and adjust the parameters for peak calling and quantitation and select which peptides should contribute to the overall abundance ratio calculation. Finally, ZoomQuant generates a summary report of the relative abundance of the peptides identified in the two samples.     

Determination of indomethacin in serum and urine by electron-capture gas-liquid chromatography.

A specific and sensitive method for the quantitative determination of indomethacin in serum and urine is described. The drug is extracted at pH 5.0 with 1,2-dichloroethane and a portion of the organic extract is concentrated and made to react with diazoethane in diethyl ether. The ethyl ester derivative is analyzed by electron-capture gas-liquid chromatography, quantitation being achieved by comparison of peak areas for samples and standards, which are prepared in serum or urine and treated in the same manner as the samples. The limit of sensitivity is 50 ng/ml and the relative standard derivation for repeat determinations on the same sample is about 3%.     

A tool for predicting the integrity of Y zeolite crystalline structure

The purpose of this work was to employ the differential thermal analysis technique (DTA) to compare variations in the collapse energy of the Y zeolite crystalline structure in a fresh sample and in the sample after temperature treatment and impregnated with 3,000 ppm of vanadium and nickel. A small exothermic signal in the DTA curve at 950–1,150 °C indicated the collapse of the crystalline structure. The areas of the exothermic signals in the DTA curves of the samples indicated a 20% reduction in the exothermic area peak of sample treated 600 °C for 3 h and 25% reduction in same peak in the metal impregnated Y zeolite. These results were compared with X-ray data leading to the conclusion that metal impregnation affects the Y zeolite crystalline structure and that the DTA technique is a potentially useful tool for measuring the integrity of Y zeolite in catalysts.     

Identification in residue analysis based on liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry: Experimental evidence to update performance criteria

Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) is one of the most widely used techniques for identification (and quantification) of residues and contaminants across a number of different chemical domains. Although the same analytical technique is used, the parameters and criteria for identification vary depending on where in the world the analysis is performed and for what purpose (e.g. determination of pesticides, veterinary drugs, forensic toxicology, sports doping). The rationale for these differences is not clear and in most cases the criteria are essentially based on expert opinions rather than underpinned by experimental data. In the current study, the variability of the two key identification parameters, retention time and ion ratio, was assessed and compared against requirements set out in different legal and guidance documents. The study involved the analysis of 120 pesticides, representing various chemical classes, polarities, molecular weights, and detector response factors, in 21 different fruit and vegetable matrices of varying degrees of complexity. The samples were analysed non-fortified, and fortified at 10, 50 and 200 μg kg⁻¹, in five laboratories using different LC-MS/MS instruments and conditions. In total, over 135,000 extracted-ion chromatograms were manually verified to provide an extensive data set for the assessment. The experimental data do not support relative tolerances for retention time, or different tolerances for ion ratios depending on relative abundance of the two product ions measured. Retention times in today’s chromatographic systems are sufficiently stable to justify an absolute tolerance of ±0.1 min. Ion ratios are stable as long as sufficient response is obtained for both product ions. Ion ratio deviations are typically within ±20% (relative), and within ±45% (relative) in case the response of product ions are close to the limit of detection. Ion ratio tolerances up to 50% did not result in false positives and reduced the false negative rate for pesticides with product ions in the low S/N range to <5%. Without ion ratio criterion, two false positives were obtained in 105 non-fortified samples. Although the study has been conducted for pesticides residues in fruits and vegetables, the impact of these findings is believed to extend towards other application areas and possibly support adjustment or consolidation of criteria across other analytical domains.     

A Series of Collaborations between Various Pharmaceutical Companies and Regulatory Authorities Concerning the Analysis of Biomolecules Using Capillary Electrophoresis: Additional Instruments/Buffer

An international project team (including members from US, Canada and UK) was formed from a number of interested biopharmaceutical companies and regulatory authorities to conduct a cross-organisation collaboration exercise. The results of the first comparison with eight different organisations that used instruments of the same equipment model, the same reagents, and the same methodology has been reported previously [1]. This report represents the addition of other instruments using a different run buffer. The relative migration times were different, as expected, prohibiting a direct comparison between companies. The within-organisation variability was low for both relative migration time (<0.34% RSD% for all companies save one) and the peak area (<5% RSD% for all companies save one) when measuring the purity of a representative IgG sample. The apparent molecular weight of bovine serum albumin was measured with good precision (less than 10% RSD% across all companies) to the theoretical value when all data is utilized (67.5 kDa compared to 66.4 kDa). For a representative IgG sample, the three main components, IgG Light Chain, IgG Non-glycosylated Heavy Chain, and IgG Heavy Chain, could not be separated, specifically the IgG Non-glycosylated Heavy Chain and IgG Heavy Chain. When the IgG Non-glycosylated Heavy Chain and IgG Heavy Chain were combined for all organisations, the fractional peak area for the IgG Light Chain and IgG Non-glycosylated Heavy Chain + IgG Heavy Chain peak also showed excellent agreement, with less than 7.5 and 3.5% RSD%, respectively. The value of this exercise is in demonstrating the reliability of CE for the determination of apparent size of biopharmaceutical proteins. This underpins the appropriate use of such CE data in support of regulatory submissions.

     

酒精度对高效液相色谱-荧光法分析白酒中氨基甲酸乙酯含量的影响

分析酒精度对高效液相色谱-荧光（HPLC-FLD）法测定白酒中氨基甲酸乙酯（EC）含量的影响,建立了快速检测白酒中EC含量的HPLC-FLD分析方法。通过比较不同酒精度下同一EC含量的峰面积,研究酒精度对EC含量测定的影响。结果表明,在5%~65%（v/v）酒精度范围内,酒精度与EC含量（峰面积）具有良好的线性关系,相关系数R²大于0.98,同时建立了不同酒精度间EC含量换算的相对校正系数。该方法在10~500 μg/L范围内呈良好的线性关系,R²大于0.9999,定量限为10 μg/L,加标回收率为98.9%~108.2%,相对标准偏差为0.6%~4.9%。评价了HPLC-FLD法的可靠性,将该方法与GC-MS方法比较,结果显示两种方法无明显差异。该方法简单、灵敏、准确,适用于白酒中EC含量的快速测定,具有较好的实际应用价值。     

High‐throughput metabolic stability studies in drug discovery by orthogonal acceleration time‐of‐flight (OATOF) with analogue‐to‐digital signal capture (ADC)

Screening assays capable of performing quantitative analysis on hundreds of compounds per week are used to measure metabolic stability during early drug discovery. Modern orthogonal acceleration time‐of‐flight (OATOF) mass spectrometers equipped with analogue‐to‐digital signal capture (ADC) now offer performance levels suitable for many applications normally supported by triple quadruple instruments operated in multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mode. Herein the merits of MRM and OATOF with ADC detection are compared for more than 1000 compounds screened in rat and/or cryopreserved human hepatocytes over a period of 3 months. Statistical comparison of a structurally diverse subset indicated good agreement for the two detection methods. The overall success rate was higher using OATOF detection and data acquisition time was reduced by around 20%. Targeted metabolites of diazepam were detected in samples from a CLint determination performed at 1 µM. Data acquisition by positive and negative ion mode switching can be achieved on high‐performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) peak widths as narrow as 0.2 min (at base), thus enabling a more comprehensive first pass analysis with fast HPLC gradients. Unfortunately, most existing OATOF instruments lack the software tools necessary to rapidly convert the huge amounts of raw data into quantified results. Software with functionality similar to open access triple quadrupole systems is needed for OATOF to truly compete in a high‐throughput screening environment. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Static TOF‐SIMS — a VAMAS interlaboratory study. Part I. Repeatability and reproducibility of spectra

An interlaboratory study involving 32 Time‐of‐Flight Static SIMS instruments from 12 countries has been conducted. Analysts were supplied, by NPL, with a protocol for analysis together with three reference materials; a thin layer of polycarbonate (PC) on a silicon wafer, a thin layer of polystyrene (PS) oligomers on etched silver and poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE). The study involved static SIMS analysis of each reference material for both positive and negative polarity secondary ions. The option to test instrument suitability for G‐SIMS was also provided. The results of this study show that over 84% of instruments have excellent repeatabilities of better than 1.9%. Repeatabilities can be as good as 0.4%. A relative instrument spectral response (RISR) is calculated for each instrument for each reference material and ion polarity. The RISR is used to evaluate variations in spectral response between different generic types of SIMS instruments. Use of the RISR allows the identification of contamination, charge stabilisation problems and incorrectly functioning ion detectors. The high quality of the data presented here allows the RISR to reveal differences in individual operation of each instrument such as the use of apertures to remove metastables from the spectra and the use of different post‐acceleration voltages for ion detection. Spectral reproducibility can be measured, here, by the equivalence of RISRs between materials and ion polarities. It is found that reproducibilities are on average 10% but can be as good as 4% for the best instruments. This figure shows the consistency between instruments in measuring spectra from different samples. This study sets out the basic framework to develop static secondary ion mass spectrometry (SSIMS) as a reliable measurement method. © Crown Copyright 2005. Reproduced with the permission of Her Majestry's Stationery Office. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A self-consistent multiple-peak structure of the photoemission spectra of metallic Fe 2p as a function of film thickness

The Fe 2p spectrum has a very complex peak structure and a very strong background. Based on the comparison of the spectra for iron film with varying thicknesses, an experimental multiple-peak structure for the metallic Fe 2p spectrum is proposed. The analysis required the use of state-of-the-art background modeling (including the active approach) and peak-fitting methods (including the simultaneous fitting method). A key aspect that allowed for this analysis is that the peak components are the same for various Fe film thicknesses, but with varying relative intensities. The early stages of oxidation are analyzed. The angular dependence of the peak components is also discussed.     

Improving the reliability of peak-evaluation results in gamma-ray spectrometry

In gamma-ray spectrometry the activities present in the samples are calculated from the areas of the peaks occurring in the spectra. Therefore, the utmost reliability of these input data must be maintained. To avoid systematic manual checks of the peak areas, the spectrum is analyzed consecutively by three peak-analysis programs. A comparative study was performed in which these peak-evaluation programs were tested to determine whether they yielded unbiased results. Only these programs can be used in a combined application. A consistency test of peak areas calculated by use of the three programs, for the same peak, was performed. Outlying results were discarded and the uncertainty of the best estimate for the area of a peak was calculated taking into account the dispersion of the peak-area results for this peak. The reliability of the computerized procedure has made manual checks of the peak areas unnecessary.     

运用色谱指纹图谱与化学计量学方法对灵芝进行分类

采用95%乙醇为提取溶剂,运用高效液相色谱(HPLC)指纹图谱技术与化学计量学方法,对11个不同灵芝菌株子实体进行分类。通过相似度分析分别获得提取样品指纹图谱的13个共有峰及每个样品之间的相似度;以相对共有峰面积为分析参数,运用化学计量学方法包括聚类分析(HCA)、主成分分析(PCA)及判别分析(DA)对其进行分类,结果分为紫芝、赤芝和美国大灵芝3类。实验结果表明,用化学计量学的方法对灵芝样品的指纹图谱数据进行分析,是一种可用于其分类的科学方法。     

Content uniformity determination of pharmaceutical tablets using five near-infrared reflectance spectrometers: a process analytical technology (PAT) approach using robust multivariate calibration transfer algorithms

Near-infrared calibration models were developed for the determination of content uniformity of pharmaceutical tablets containing 29.4% drug load for two dosage strengths (X and Y). Both dosage strengths have a circular geometry and the only difference is the size and weight. Strength X samples weigh approximately 425 mg with a diameter of 12 mm while strength Y samples, weigh approximately 1700 mg with a diameter of 20 mm. Data used in this study were acquired from five NIR instruments manufactured by two different vendors. One of these spectrometers is a dispersive-based NIR system while the other four were Fourier transform (FT) based. The transferability of the optimized partial least-squares (PLS) calibration models developed on the primary instrument (A) located in a research facility was evaluated using spectral data acquired from secondary instruments B, C, D and E. Instruments B and E were located in the same research facility as spectrometer A while instruments C and D were located in a production facility 35 miles away. The same set of tablet samples were used to acquire spectral data from all instruments. This scenario mimics the conventional pharmaceutical technology transfer from research and development to production. Direct cross-instrument prediction without standardization was performed between the primary and each secondary instrument to evaluate the robustness of the primary instrument calibration model. For the strength Y samples, this approach was successful for data acquired on instruments B, C, and D producing root mean square error of prediction (RMSEP) of 1.05, 1.05, and 1.22%, respectively. However for instrument E data, this approach was not successful producing an RMSEP value of 3.40%. A similar deterioration was observed for the strength X samples, with RMSEP values of 2.78, 5.54, 3.40, and 5.78% corresponding to spectral data acquired on instruments B, C, D, and E, respectively. To minimize the effect of instrument variability, calibration transfer techniques such as piecewise direct standardization (PDS) and wavelet hybrid direct standardization (WHDS) were used. The PDS approach, the RMSEP values for strength X samples were lowered to 1.22, 1.12, 1.19, and 1.08% for instruments B, C, D, and E, respectively. Similar improvements were obtained using the WHDS approach with RMSEP values of 1.36, 1.42, 1.36, and 0.98% corresponding to instruments B, C, D, and E, respectively.     

应用超临界流体萃取分离-气相色谱-质谱分析法建立中药温郁金的指纹图谱及其系统聚类分析

收集生长于浙江省瑞安市8个产地的温郁金样品14批次,分别经清洗、冷冻干燥及碾磨粉碎,得到通过0.425mm筛孔药筛的粉末状样品14个。称取此样品各30g,分别按试验选定的最佳条件[萃取温度35℃,萃取压力15MPa,萃取时间(静态30min,动态90min)]进行超临界流体萃取分离,所得萃取物收集于甲醇5mL中,并进行气相色谱-质谱法(GC-MS)分析。色谱分离采用HP-5ms石英毛细管色谱柱和在50~220℃之间程序升温模式;质谱测定采用电子轰击离子源(EI),在质荷比(m/z)50~650内进行扫描。所得总离子流色谱图中共有50多个色谱峰,选择保留时间在40min以内的共有峰26个作为考察对象,选择保留时间为17.12min的莪术二酮为参考峰,计算共有峰的相对保留时间α和峰面积百分比S以及各样品与S3的S值的最大差值ΔS(Max)%,并建立了14个样品的指纹图谱。根据GC-MS分析所得结果并与NIST 14谱库比对,对共有峰作出鉴定。通过SPSS 16.0软件,采用系统聚类分析法对所分析的14批次温郁金样品的指纹图谱进行分类比较。应用指纹图谱对2个市售温郁金产品作了组分鉴定和产地认定。     

A sorption balance-based method to study the initial drying of dispersion droplets

The initial drying of dispersion samples with varying geometries and surface areas was continuously recorded in a sorption balance at different temperatures and relative humidities. The samples were applied as small (5–20 mg) droplets on glass. We were able to show a linear dependence of the evaporation rate on the exposed surface area of the samples if the evaporative cooling was taken into account. The method outlined in the present paper facilitates scaling and comparison of results obtained from drying experiments with different-sized dispersion samples.     

Characterization of new types of stationary phases for fast and ultra-fast liquid chromatography by signal processing based on AutoCovariance Function: A case study of application to Passiflora incarnata L. extract separations

In this study, a comparative investigation was performed of HPLC Ascentis^® (2.7 μm particles) columns based on fused-core particle technology and Acquity^® (1.7 μm particles) columns requiring UPLC instruments, in comparison with Chromolith™ RP-18e columns. The study was carried out on mother and vegetal tinctures of Passiflora incarnata L. on one single or two coupled columns. The fundamental attributions of the chromatographic profiles are evaluated using a chemometric procedure, based on the AutoCovariance Function (ACVF). Different chromatographic systems are compared in terms of their separation parameters, i.e., number of total chemical components (m_tot), separation efficiency (σ), peak capacity (n_c), overlap degree of peaks and peak purity. The obtained results show the improvements achieved by HPLC columns with narrow size particles in terms of total analysis time and chromatographic efficiency: comparable performance are achieved by Ascentis^® (2.7 μm particle) column and Acquity^® (1.7 μm particle) column requiring UPLC instruments. The ACVF plot is proposed as a simplified tool describing the chromatographic fingerprint to be used for evaluating and comparing chemical composition of plant extracts by using the parameters D% – relative abundance of the deterministic component – and c_EACF – similarity index computed on ACVF.