Flow-through partial-filling affinity capillary electrophoresis can estimate binding constants of neutral ligands to receptors via a competitive assay technique

This work evaluates the use of a competitive binding assay using flow-through partial-filling affinity capillary electrophoresis (FTPFACE) to estimate binding constants of neutral ligands to a receptor. We demonstrate this technique using, as a model system, carbonic anhydrase B (CAB, EC 4.2.1.1) and arylsulfonamides. In this technique, the capillary is first partially filled with a negatively charged ligand, a sample containing CAB and two noninteracting standards, and a neutral ligand, then electrophoresed. Upon application of a voltage the sample plug migrates into the plug of negatively charged ligand (L(-)) resulting in the formation of a CAB-L(-) complex. Continued electrophoresis results in mixing between the neutral ligand (L(0)) and the CAB-L(-) complex. L(0) successfully competes out L(-) to form the new CAB-L(0) complex. Analysis of the change in the relative migration time ratio (RMTR) of CAB relative to the noninteracting standards, as a function of neutral ligand concentration, yields a value for the binding constant. These values are in agreement with those estimated using other binding and ACE techniques. Data demonstrating the quantitative potential of this method is presented.     

Determination of dissociation constants by competitive binding in partial filling capillary electrophoresis

The determination of dissociation constands (K(d)) by competitive ligand binding in partial filling capillary electrophoresis is demonstrated. Two different strategies were applied, one of which only uses a single reporter ligand and a more elaborated one which suppresses systemic disturbances by using a racemic mixture as reporter. The dissociation constants obtained by both alternatives were virtually identical and in good agreement with those previously reported.     

Determination of binding parameters between lysozyme and its aptamer by frontal analysis continuous microchip electrophoresis (FACMCE)

An original and simple methodology based on microchip electrophoresis (MCE) in a continuous frontal analysis mode (named frontal analysis continuous microchip electrophoresis, FACMCE) was developed for the simultaneous determination of the binding parameters, i.e. ligand-site dissociation constant (k(d)) and number of binding sites on the substrate (n). This simultaneous determination was exemplified with the interaction between an aptamer and its target. The selected target is a strongly basic protein, lysozyme, as its quantification is of great interest due to its antimicrobial and allergenic properties. A glass microdevice equipped with a fluorescence detection system was coated with hydroxypropylcellulose, reducing the electroosmotic flow and adsorption onto the channel walls. This microdevice allowed the continuous electrokinetic injection of a mixture of fluorescently labelled aptamer and non-labelled lysozyme. By determining the concentration of the free fluorescently labelled aptamer thanks to its corresponding plateau height, mathematical linearization methods allowed to determine a k(d) value of 48.4±8.0 nM, consistent with reported results (31 nM), while the average number of binding sites n on lysozyme, never determined before, was 0.16±0.03. These results seem to indicate that the buffer nature and the SELEX process should influence the number and affinity of the binding sites. In parallel it has been shown that the binding between lysozyme and its aptamer presents two sites of different binding affinities.     

Determination of the binding parameters for antithrombin-heparin fragment systems by affinity and frontal analysis continuous capillary electrophoresis

The suitability of affinity capillary electrophoresis (ACE) and frontal analysis continuous capillary electrophoresis (FACCE) for binding constant determination was investigated for complexes between heparin fragments and antithrombin III, one of the main target proteins in the coagulation cascade. In a 100 mM ionic strength phosphate buffer (pH 7.4), ACE was suitable to determine weak to medium interactions developed by short oligomeric heparin fragments, but it failed for decasaccharide, which presents a more complex irreversible interaction. However FACCE allowed evaluating the binding constant for these longer oligomeric fragments. Both experimental approaches were complementary for a wide variety of heparinic fragments.     

Cooperative binding of nonionic surfactant to hydrophobically modified polyanions as studied by frontal analysis continuous capillary electrophoresis

The binding of a nonionic surfactant, Triton X-100 (TX), to amphiphilic copolymers of sodium 2-(acrylamido)-2-methylpropanesulfonate and N-dodecylmethacrylamide (C12) (p(A/C12(x)), where x denotes the mol % content of C12) was investigated by frontal analysis continuous capillary electrophoresis (FACCE) combined with dynamic light scattering focusing on the effect of the hydrophobe content on the binding in a wide range of x (5-60 mol %). From binding isotherms obtained from FACCE data, the binding was found to be cooperative in the whole range of x. Furthermore, a significant change in the binding behavior, i.e., cooperativity, was found to occur in a relatively narrow range of x (38-50 mol %), which is attributable to a change in the self-association behavior of p(A/C12(x)) in this x range.     

Analysis of explosives via microchip electrophoresis and conventional capillary electrophoresis: a review

The upsurge in terrorist activity has generated tremendous demand for innovative tools capable of detecting major industrial, military, and home-made (improvised) explosives. Fast, sensitive, and reliable detection of explosives in the field is a very important issue in nowadays. CE, especially in its miniaturized format (lab-on-a-chip), offers great possibilities to create portable, field deployable, rapidly responding, and potentially disposable devices, allowing security forces to make the important decisions regarding the safety of civilians. This article overviews the microchip and conventional capillary electrophoretic techniques for analysis of a wide variety of explosive compounds and mixtures.     

Methods for the determination of binding constants by capillary electrophoresis

Apparent equilibrium constants for molecular association (e.g., association constants, binding constants, dissociation constants, partition coefficients) can be determined with a variety of different capillary electrophoresis (CE) approaches. In many cases, the investigated association behavior is between a smaller molecule or ion (i.e., the solute, drug, or analyte of interest) and a larger entity (e.g., proteins, micelles, polymers, chiral selectors such as cyclodextrins, etc.). Each experimental approach has advantages and disadvantages. Frequently, it is the nature of the system being evaluated that determines the optimal experimental approach. Six different CE-based techniques for evaluating binding constants are reviewed. Examples of each method, and recent references on its use are given.     

Determination of drug-cyclodextrin binding constants by capillary zone electrophoresis

Binding constants of the optical isomers of Deprenyl® (selegiline) and its potential metabolites with (2,6-di-O-methyl)--cyclodextrin were determined using electrophoretic mobility data gained from separations performed by capillary electrophoresis, and absorbancies obtained from spectrophotometric experiments. To calculate equilibrium constants l: l complex formation have been assumed. The comparison of the equilibrium constants calculated from different methods shows similar values in their order of magnitude. Their difference may probably be explained by the different media of the measurements. The effect of the structure of compounds on chiral discrimination were also elucidated.     

Determination of binding constants of hydrophobically end-capped poly(ethylene glycol)s with beta-cyclodextrin by affinity capillary electrophoresis

The formation of inclusion complexes between methoxypoly(ethylene glycol)s (MPEG)s bearing one hydrophobic group (phenyladamantyl) per chain and beta-cyclodextrin (beta-CD) was studied by capillary electrophoresis (CE). The effect of highly sulphated beta-CD (HS-beta-CD) on the migration behaviour of the phenyladamantyl-modified MPEG (MPEG-PhAd) analyte was investigated. It was established that the interaction between the modified PEG and beta-CD involved a 1:1 stoichiometry. Non-linear regression and three usual linearization methods (y-reciprocal, x-reciprocal and double reciprocal) were employed to estimate the binding constants. It was demonstrated that the binding constants were similar (around 400 M(-1)) for two MPEG-PhAd having different chain lengths (2000 and 5000 g/mol).     

Determination of apparent binding constants of drugs by capillary electrophoresis using beta-cyclodextrin as ligand and three different linear plotting methods

Capillary electrophoretic estimation of apparent binding constants (Kapp) for naproxen, salbutamol, indomethacine and procaine with beta-cyclodextrin is presented. While with naproxen and indomethacine this approach was straightforward and gave well compatible results by three different linearization plots (double reciprocal, x reciprocal and y reciprocal), with salbutamol a higher value than reported for the electromigration estimation of this magnitude was obtained (a fourfold increase). This difference is ascribed to the fact that the measurements were done in the acid region (while the reported values were obtained at higher pH values). As a matter of fact the values of Kapp, reported in this communication for salbutamol comply better with the value of Kapp (69.3) obtained by the solubility method.     

Enantiomer separation of drugs by capillary electrophoresis using mixtures of beta-cyclodextrin sulfate and neutral cyclodextrins

Direct separation of enantiomers of drugs was investigated by capillary electrophoresis employing mixtures of charged cyclodextrin derivatives (CDs) and electrically neutral CDs (i.e., dual CD system). Among various charged CDs employed, it was found that beta-CD sulfate showed relatively wide enantioselectivity for a wide variety of drugs under acidic conditions. Then separation of enantiomers was performed by employing beta-CD sulfate and the effect of the addition of electrically neutral CDs to the buffers containing beta-CD sulfate was investigated. Through the addition of electrically neutral CDs to the buffers containing the charged CD, resolution of most of the enantiomers was improved, compared with those with the charged CD alone. It was also found that the ring size (alpha, beta, gamma,), the substitution groups and the concentration of the additional electrically neutral CDs affected the enantioselectivity. For example, alpha-CD addition was effective for the separation of enantiomers of chlorpheniramine and hydroxypropyl-beta-CD was effective for the enantiomer separation of trimetoquinol isomer. The application of the method in optical purity testing is also briefly mentioned.     

Rapid analysis of atorvastatin calcium using capillary electrophoresis and microchip electrophoresis

In this work, a capillary electrophoretic method for the rapid quantitation of atorvastatin (AT) in a lipitor tablet was investigated and developed. Method development included studies of the effect of applied potential, buffer concentration, buffer pH, and hydrodynamic injection time on the electrophoretic separation. The method was validated with regard to linearity, precision, specificity, LOD, and LOQ. The optimum electrophoretic separation conditions were 25 mM sodium acetate buffer at pH 6, with a separation voltage of 25 kV using a 50 microm capillary of 33 cm total length. Sodium diclofenac was used as an internal standard. Analysis of AT in a commercial lipitor tablet by electrophoresis gave quite high efficiency, coupled with an analysis time of less than 1.2 min in comparison to LC. Once the separation was optimized on capillary, it was further miniaturized to a microchip platform, with linear imaging UV detection using microchip electrophoresis (MCE). Linear imaging UV detection allowed for real-time monitoring of the analyte movement on chip, so that the optimum separation time could be easily determined. This microchip electrophoretic method was compared to the CE method with regard to speed, efficiency, precision, and LOD. This work represents the most rapid and first reported analysis of AT using MCE.     

Single run measurements of drug-protein binding by high-performance frontal analysis capillary electrophoresis and mass spectrometry

A novel drug-protein binding measurement method based on high-performance frontal analysis and capillary electrophoresis (HPFA/CE) is presented. A single run measurement approach is proposed to circumvent utilization of a calibration curve that is often performed with HPFA. A sensitive mass spectrometer is applied as a detector enabling the measurement of in vitro protein binding at lower drug concentrations. Unbound free fraction and binding constants can be determined by a single run measurement by consecutive injections of an internal drug standard, a buffer plug and a drug-protein mixture. Effects of injection volumes on peak height and plateau profile were investigated in two different separation systems, non-volatile buffer and volatile buffer, with UV and mass spectrometry detection, respectively. A simplified one-to-one binding model is employed to evaluate the proposed method by using both single and multiple drug concentrations to measure the unbound free fraction and calculate the binding constants of some selected compounds. The method is suitable for rapid and direct screening of the binding of a drug to a specific protein or drug-plasma protein binding.     

Determination of aggregation thresholds of UV absorbing anionic surfactants by frontal analysis continuous capillary electrophoresis

Aggregation of anionic surfactants was investigated by frontal analysis continuous capillary electrophoresis (FACCE), a method involving the continuous electrokinetic introduction of the surfactant sample into the separation capillary. This process results in a partial separation of the monomeric and aggregated forms without perturbing the monomer-aggregate equilibrium. The critical micelle concentration (CMC) can then be easily derived from the height of the firstly detected migration front, corresponding to the monomeric form. This approach is exemplified with octyl and dodecylbenzenesulfonates and compared with conductimetry and surface tension measurements. FACCE turns out to be an effective method for the determination of CMC and intermediate aggregation phenomena with very small sample and short time requirements.     

Nonlinear analysis of dynamic binding in affinity capillary electrophoresis demonstrated for inclusion complexes of beta-cyclodextrin

The stability of the molecular host-guest inclusion complexes of beta-cyclodextrin with benzoate and four different hydroxybenzoates is investigated. For the measurement of the binding constants an experimental method is devised that is based on affinity capillary electrophoresis (ACE) with indirect UV absorbance detection. We derive an explicit equation for effective mobilities in ACE experiments without violation of rigorous mass balance. This equation is employed in the nonlinear least-squares analyses of the experimental data yielding binding constants of 48+/-2 M(-1) for benzoate, 299+/-38 M(-1) for 2-hydroxybenzoate, 37+/-1 M(-1) for 3-hydroxybenzoate, 228+/-9 M(-1) for 4-hydroxybenzoate, and 895+/-110 M(-1) in the case of 2,4-dihydroxybenzoate.     

Study on the protein binding of ketoprofen using capillary electrophoresis frontal analysis compared with liquid chromatography frontal analysis

A method of capillary electrophoresis frontal analysis (CEFA) is developed for the first time to study the binding of ketoprofen to human serum albumin (HSA) and compared with high-performance liquid chromatography frontal analysis (LCFA). The separation is performed in an uncoated fused-silica capillary (60-cm x 75- micro m i.d., 50-cm effective length) with a phosphate buffer (pH 7.4, ionic strength of 0.17M) as the running buffer. The applied voltage is 13 kV and the detection is set at 254 nm. A trapezoidal peak of the unbound ketoprofen appears after HSA elution in the electropherogram. The plateau height of the peak is employed to determine the unbound concentration of ketoprofen in the HSA equilibrated sample solution. The CEFA method provides the advantages of small sample injection volume and rapidity and the disadvantage of low sensitivity compared with LCFA. CEFA is applicable to the binding parameter estimation of ketoprofen to the secondary binding site; an association constant (K(2)) of 0.24 x 10(6)M(-1) and the number for the binding site per molecule HSA of 2.54 is estimated. In contrast, LCFA measures parameters for both primary and secondary sites, which are 1.05 x 10(6)M(-1) and 0.94 for K(1) and n(1), respectively, and 0.12 x 10(6)M(-1) and 3.16 for K(2) and n(2), respectively. It is found that ketoprofen binds mainly at the primary site at a molecular ratio of ketoprofen versus HSA lower than 0.75, and the binding at the secondary site occurs at a higher ratio.     

Enantioseparation of dihydropyridine derivatives by means of neutral and negatively charged beta-cyclodextrin derivatives using capillary electrophoresis

Employing capillary electrophoresis, the racemates of 29 acidic, neutral and basic dihydropyridines (DHPs) were separated by means of neutral and negatively charged cyclodextrins (CDs). Whereas the enantiomers of the acidic DHPs could be resolved with neutral CDs, mostly alpha- and beta-CD, the enantiomers of the neutral DHPs were only baseline-separated using the sulfobutyl ether-substituted beta-CD. Working in reversed polarity mode (detector at the anode) improved the peak shape and the resolution of the enantiomers. The racemates of the DHP bearing a secondary or tertiary amine function in the side chain at position 3 could be separated by using either the neutral gamma-CD or negatively charged CDs. The poor peak shape found with anionic CDs could be improved by the addition of methanol. The combination of gamma-CD and sulfated beta-CD allowed the detection of the minor enantiomer of lercanidipine (24) at less than 1% w/w.     

Estimation of binding constants of receptors and ligands by affinity capillary electrophoresis

An estimation method for determination of binding constants of receptors to ligands by affinity capillary electrophoresis was evaluated. On the basis of the theories of pseudostationary phase or so-called dynamic stationary phase, the retention factor (k) was used to represent the interaction between the receptor and ligand. k could be easily deduced from the migration times of the ligand and the receptor. Then, with the linear relationship of k versus the concentration of ligand in the running buffer, the binding constant K _b was calculated from the slope and intercept. In order to test its feasibility, the calculation method was demonstrated using three model systems: the interactions between vancomycin and N-acetyl-d-Ala-d-Ala, ristocetin and N-acetyl-d-Ala-d-Ala, and carbonic anhydrase B and an arylsulfonamide. Estimated binding constants were compared with those determined by other techniques. The results showed that this estimation method was reliable. This calculation method offers a simple and easy approach to estimating binding constants of ligands to receptors.     

芯片毛细管电泳用于人乳头瘤病毒分析的研究进展

人乳头瘤病毒(human papillomavirus, HPV)是一种常见的球形DNA病毒,目前已报道其可以导致6种类型的癌症发生,因此HPV病毒检测方法的研究引起了人们的重视。芯片毛细管电泳(MCE),作为一种芯片实验设备,结合各种信号放大技术为HPV分型检测提供了简单、快速、高灵敏度和易便携化的检测方法。该文综述了MCE在常规HPV分型检测中的最新研究进展,主要分为MCE技术和MCE结合核酸扩增技术两个部分。综述的第一部分介绍了MCE系统、MCE芯片结构设计和电泳分离方法。典型的MCE系统包含了高压电源、分离芯片、电解液池、进样系统、检测系统等。该文还介绍了近年来应用最广泛的4种芯片通道,包括分离直通道、T型通道、蛇形通道以及双通道,并分别对它们的优缺点进行了比较。第二部分主要介绍芯片电泳在HPV检测中的应用和发展。由于MCE技术的应用,HPV目标物的分离时间,从以前的几个小时缩短到几分钟,极大地提高了分离速度。重点介绍了各种核酸扩增技术结合MCE检测HPV的方法。对聚合酶链式反应(PCR)和MCE结合用于HPV的检测技术、环介导等温扩增(LAMP)技术的HPV检测方法、基于PC...     

Assessment of the binding performance of histamine‐imprinted microspheres by frontal analysis capillary electrophoresis

Frontal analysis capillary electrophoresis was used to evaluate the binding performance of molecularly imprinted microspheres (MIM) toward its template histamine and analogs at pH 7, and compared to the high performance liquid chromatographic method. In both methods, batch binding was employed and the binding parameters were calculated from the measured concentration of unbound amine analytes and afforded comparable histamine equilibrium dissociation constants (K _d ∼ 0.4 mM). FACE was easily carried out at shorter binding equilibration time (i.e. 30 min) and without the need to separate the microspheres, circumventing laborious and, in the case of the system under study, inefficient sample filtration. It also allowed for competitive binding studies by virtue of its ability to distinctly separate intact microspheres and all tested amines which could not be resolved in HPLC. K _d’s for nonimprinted (control) microspheres (NIM) from FACE and HPLC were also comparable (∼ 0.6 mM) but at higher histamine concentrations, HPLC gave lower histamine binding. This discrepancy was attributed to inefficient filtration of the batch binding samples prior to HPLC analysis resulting in an over‐estimation of the concentration of free histamine brought about by the presence of unfiltered histamine‐bound microspheres.