PMID- 22497462 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120919 LR - 20120515 IS - 1520-6882 (Electronic) IS - 0003-2700 (Linking) VI - 84 IP - 10 DP - 2012 May 15 TI - Analytical characterization of an orally-delivered peptide pharmaceutical product. PG - 4357-72 LID - 10.1021/ac203478r [doi] AB - The characterization of orally-delivered peptide pharmaceuticals presents several challenges to analytical methods in comparison to characterization of conventional small-molecule drugs. These challenges include the analysis and characterization of difficult-to-separate impurities, secondary structure, the amorphous solid-state form, and the integrity of enteric-coated drug delivery systems. This work presents the multidisciplinary analytical characterization of a parathyroid hormone (PTH) peptide active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) and an oral formulation of this API within enteric-coated sucrose spheres. The analysis of impurities and degradation products in API and formulated drug product was facilitated by the development of an ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) method for analysis by high-resolution mass spectrometry (MS). The use of UHPLC allowed for additional resolution needed to detect impurities and degradation products of interest. The secondary structure was probed using a combination of solution-state NMR, infrared, and circular dichroism spectroscopic methods. Solid-state NMR is used to detect amorphous API in a nondestructive manner directly within the coated sucrose sphere formulation. Fluorescence and Raman microscopy were used in conjunction with Raman mapping to show enteric coating integrity and observe the distribution of API beneath the enteric-coating on the sucrose spheres. The methods are combined in a multidisciplinary approach to characterize the quality of the enteric-coated peptide product. FAU - Kelley, Wayne P AU - Kelley WP AD - Biopharmaceutical R&D, GlaxoSmithKline llc., King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406, United States. FAU - Chen, Shujun AU - Chen S FAU - Floyd, Philip D AU - Floyd PD FAU - Hu, Ping AU - Hu P FAU - Kapsi, Shiva G AU - Kapsi SG FAU - Kord, Alireza S AU - Kord AS FAU - Sun, Mingjiang AU - Sun M FAU - Vogt, Frederick G AU - Vogt FG LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20120427 PL - United States TA - Anal Chem JT - Analytical chemistry JID - 0370536 RN - 0 (Parathyroid Hormone) RN - 0 (Peptides) RN - 0 (Recombinant Proteins) RN - 57-50-1 (Sucrose) SB - IM MH - Administration, Oral MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - *Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid MH - *Drug Compounding MH - Humans MH - Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy MH - *Mass Spectrometry MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Parathyroid Hormone/analysis/genetics/metabolism MH - Peptides/*analysis MH - Protein Structure, Secondary MH - Recombinant Proteins/analysis/genetics/metabolism MH - Spectrum Analysis, Raman MH - Sucrose/chemistry EDAT- 2012/04/14 06:00 MHDA- 2012/09/20 06:00 CRDT- 2012/04/14 06:00 PHST- 2012/04/14 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/04/14 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/09/20 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1021/ac203478r [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Anal Chem. 2012 May 15;84(10):4357-72. doi: 10.1021/ac203478r. Epub 2012 Apr 27.