Protein-protein interactions and water activity coefficients can be used to aid a first excipient choice in protein formulations
Autor: | Miko Schleinitz, Christoph Brandenbusch, Gabriele Sadowski |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Water activity
Drug Compounding Pharmaceutical Science Excipient 02 engineering and technology Sodium Chloride 030226 pharmacology & pharmacy Protein–protein interaction Excipients 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Static light scattering Histidine Mathematics Molecular interactions Heuristic Trehalose Water 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Biopharmaceutical Virial coefficient Immunoglobulin G 0210 nano-technology Biological system medicine.drug |
Zdroj: | International journal of pharmaceutics. 569 |
ISSN: | 1873-3476 |
Popis: | With respect to all biopharmaceuticals marketed to date, monoclonal antibodies represent the largest fraction with more than 48% market share (2012). However, the development of biopharmaceutical formulations is a challenging task, and time-consuming and cost-intensive high-throughput screenings are still state-of-the-art in formulation design. These screening techniques are almost exclusively based on heuristic decisions thus the benefit in terms of mechanistic understanding is often unclear. It requires novel, physical-sound methods to enhance/optimize future formulation development, ideally by understanding molecular interactions in these complex solutions. A suitable and evaluated measure-of-choice to characterize protein-protein interactions in aqueous protein solutions is the second osmotic virial coefficient B22 which can be measured using static light scattering techniques. Furthermore B22 can be modeled/predicted via the extended mxDLVO model for protein-protein interactions in the presence of single excipients and excipient-mixtures. Building up on this approach, giving an additional insight into water-water and water-excipient interactions, the thermodynamic equation-of-state ePC-SAFT is used to calculate water activity coefficients in the presence of excipient-mixtures. Immunoglobulin G (IgG) was chosen as a model protein to predict B22-values for IgG in the presence of model excipient-mixtures (trehalose-NaCl, l-histidine-trehalose, l-histidine-NaCl). The combination of water activity coefficients and B22 allows to quickly identify a first guess on suitable formulation conditions that then can be further evaluated with existing methods/knowledge. |
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