Development of an LC-MS/MS method for the quantification of goserelin from Pheroid® formulation
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2019Author
Takyi-Williams, John
Erasmus, Linné
Hayeshi, Rose
Grobler, Anne
Magwaza, Martin
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The oral route is for many reasons the most common route of
drug administration, however, due to gastrointestinal (GI) tract
enzymatic stability issues, peptide drugs are administered parenterally. Goserelin is an anticancer peptide drug which has been recently
encapsulated in the Pheroid® delivery system to enhance its GI
enzymatic stability. In vitro stability of Pheroid®-goserelin formulation was therefore evaluated in simulated intestinal fluids. An assay
was required to extract and quantify goserelin from Pheroid®
formulation in the presence of simulated intestinal fluids. However,
a literature survey revealed no analytical method available for such
task. Hence, in this study, novel LC-MS/MS assay was developed and
validated for goserelin quantification in formulation and intestinal
fluids. Pheroid®-goserelin formulation was incubated in simulated
gastric fluid (pH 1.2), and simulated intestinal fluid (pH 6.8) for 120
min after which the enzymatic reaction was stopped with acetonitrile in the ratio of 1:3 (v/v). Goserelin was extracted from Pheroid®-
goserelin formulation in the simulated intestinal fluids using a
protein precipitation method prior to liquid-liquid extraction with
water-saturated n-butanol and water. A gradient reverse-phase
method with tandem mass spectrometry detection was optimized
for the separation and quantification of the extracted goserelin.
Several extraction methods and solvents investigated to extract
goserelin from the lipids and proteins mixture led to either poor
recovery or poor peak shape. A simple, reproducible and highrecovery extraction procedure for goserelin quantification was
achieved using both protein precipitation method and liquid-liquid
extraction with water-saturated n-butanol and water. Moreover,
chromatographic separation and tandem mass spectrometry detection for goserelin and its internal standard were achieved within a
total analysis time of 2 min. The challenge for this study was to
develop a method to extract goserelin from a matrix comprising lipid
and proteins. The stopping reaction reagent (acetonitrile) simultaneously functioned as the protein precipitation solvent, whilst the
lipids were successfully extracted using liquid-liquid extraction with
water-saturated n-butanol and water. This novel assay was found to
be specific, rapid, precise and accurate and could be applied to the
goserelin in vitro preclinical stability study
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http://hdl.handle.net/10394/33322https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1056871919303260
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vascn.2019.106608