Development and validation of a high performance liquid chromatography method for oligodeoxynucleotides determination in a novel coagel-based formulation

The therapeutic benefit of phosphorothioate oligodeoxynucleotides (PS-ODN) containing immune stimulatory sequences has been demonstrated in animal models of cancer and infection. Several tools are available for the determination of these oligonucleotides in biological samples and pharmaceutical preparations, including UV spectroscopy, dye binding, isotopic tracing, capillary gel electrophoresis (CGE), hybridization-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and chromatography techniques. However, due to inter-assay variability and accuracy problems associated with the afore mentioned methods, we have developed and validated an isocratic high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) for analytical determination of PS-ODN containing unmethylated CpG motifs (CpG-ODN). Validation under Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines of the analytical parameters include: linearity (r2 0.9996), LOD (0.86 μg/ml) and LOQ (6.25 μg/ml), intra (0.19–3.37%) and inter-day precision (0.63–3.75%) expressed as relative standard deviation (RSD), and robustness parameters (less than 2.80%). Using this method, recoveries ranging from 89.9% to 99.9% were obtained. Thus, this method provides a simple, sensitive, precise and reproducible examination which can be readily adapted for the assessment of CpG-ODN in different pharmaceutical preparations

Phase Behavior of Ascorbyl Palmitate Coagels Loaded with Oligonucleotides as a New Carrier for Vaccine Adjuvants

In this work, the phase behavior variations of an ascorbyl palmitate (Asc16) system in aqueous solution were analyzed when immunologically active hydrophilic compounds (CpG and OVA) were introduced. This study was carried out through optical polarizing microscopy (OPM) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) at different temperatures and over a broad range of concentrations. The combination of both techniques allowed the determination of a complete phase diagram which was compared with those built for Asc16-water system and it was demonstrated that fixed concentrations of hydrophilic compounds (300 and 24 µg/g for CpG-ODN and OVA respectively) generate two lamellar liquid crystals, a cubic liquid crystal phase, and also other aggregates. However, no changes were observed in the phase diagram in terms of formation of new mesophases. The aqueous phase behavior was also studied as a function of surfactant and temperature. DSC and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) measurements show differences in the free water and mainly in the secondary hydration layer, which confirm that the studied compounds are situated in the aqueous domain. The construction and analysis of Asc16 phase diagrams with a fixed concentration of CpG-ODN/OVA allows the comprehension of Asc16 phase behavior and could be easily adapted to other concentrations. Moreover, these findings could be extrapolated to other hydrophilic substances in aqueous solution introduced in liquid crystal phases since they follow a similar behavior as those reported in the literature.Fil: Ullio Gamboa, Gabriela Veronica. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Unidad de Investigación y Desarrollo en Tecnología Farmacéutica. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Unidad de Investigación y Desarrollo en Tecnología Farmacéutica; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Departamento de Farmacia; ArgentinaFil: Benedini, Luciano Alejandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Química del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Química. Instituto de Química del Sur; ArgentinaFil: Schulz, Pablo Carlos. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Química; ArgentinaFil: Allemandi, Daniel Alberto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Unidad de Investigación y Desarrollo en Tecnología Farmacéutica. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Unidad de Investigación y Desarrollo en Tecnología Farmacéutica; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Departamento de Farmacia; Argentin