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Poor or variable oral bioavailability is of major concern regarding safety and efficacy for the treatment of patients with poorly water-soluble drugs (PWSDs). The problem statement of this work involves a pharmaceutical development perspective, the physicochemical basis of the absorption process and physiological / biopharmaceutical aspects. A methodology was developed aiming at closing the gap between drug liberation and dissolution on the one hand and the appearance of drug in the blood on the other. Considering what is out of control from a formulation development perspective, a clear differentiation between bioavailability and bioaccessibility was necessary. Focusing on the absorption process, bioaccessibility of a model compound, a poorly soluble but well permeable weak base, was characterized by means of flux across artificial biomimetic membranes. Such setups can be considered to reasonably mimic relevant oral absorption resistances in vitro in terms of diffusion through an unstirred water layer (UWL) and a lipidic barrier. Mechanistic understanding of the driving force for permeation was gained by differentiating drug species and subsequently linking them to the observed transfer rates using a bioaccessibility concept. The three key species that need to be differentiated are molecularly dissolved drug, drug associated in solution with other components (liquid reservoir) and undissolved drug (solid reservoir). An innovative approach to differentiate molecularly dissolved drug from the liquid reservoir using ultracentrifugation in combination with dynamic light scattering as control is presented. A guidance for rational formulation development of PWSDs is elaborated based on the employed model compound. It is structured into five guiding questions to help drug formulation scientists in selecting drug form, excipients and eventually the formulation principle. Overall, the relevance but also limitations of characterizing bioaccessibility were outlined with respect to practical application e.g. in early drug formulation development.
Even though the international combat against Neglected Tropical Diseases such as schistosomiasis or soil-transmitted helminthiases depends on reliable therapeutics, anthelminthic pharmacovigilance has been neglected on many national African drug markets. Therefore, quality and composition of 88 different batches of Albendazole, Mebendazole and Praziquantel locally collected from randomly selected facilities in Western Burkina Faso, Southeast Côte d’Ivoire, Southwest Ghana and Northwest Tanzania were analysed.
Visual examination of both packaging and samples was performed according to the WHO ‘Be Aware’ tool. Products were then screened with the GPHF Minilab, consisting of tests of mass uniformity, disintegration times and thin-layer chromatography (TLC). Confirmatory tests were performed according to international pharmacopoeiae, applying assays for dissolution profiles and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).
Despite minor irregularities, appearance of the products did not hint at falsified medicines. However, 19.6 % of the brands collected in Ghana and Tanzania were not officially licensed for sale. Mass uniformity was confirmed in 53 out of 58 brands of tablets. 41 out of 56 products passed disintegration times; 10 out of the 15 failing products did not disintegrate at all.
TLC results did not reveal any falsifications or pronounced dosing errors. HPLC findings confirmed the TLC results despite shifted specification limits: ten of the 83 tested batches contained less than 90 %, none more than 110 % label claim. However, no more than 46.3 % (31 / 67) of the tablet batches assayed passed the respective criteria for dissolution.
In the four study countries, no falsified anthelminthic medicine was encountered. The active pharmaceutical ingredient was not found to either exceed or distinctively fall below specification limits. Galenic characteristics as most critical criteria however, especially dissolution profiles, revealed substantial deficits.
Für Kinder und Jugendliche stellt die Blutentnahme im Rahmen des Therapeutischen Drug Monitorings (TDM) aufgrund der Invasivität häufig eine große physische sowie psychische Belastung dar. Diese Stresssituation kann durch Speichelsammlung aufgrund des nicht invasiven Prozederes vermieden und zusätzlich der Material-, Personal- und Zeitaufwand im Vergleich zu einer Blutentnahme minimiert werden. Da die therapeutischen Referenzbereiche in der AGNP Konsensus-Leitlinie zum TDM von Psychopharmaka nur für Serum und Plasma validiert sind, sind vergleichende Untersuchungen von alternativen Matrizes mit Serum oder Plasma sowie eine klinische Validierung essenziell für die Implementierung in die klinische Praxis.
Die Zielsetzung dieser Arbeit war es daher, den Zusammenhang zwischen Speichel- und Serumkonzentrationen von Amphetamin und Guanfacin zu untersuchen, um zukünftig das Prozedere der Probenahme für TDM bei Kinder und Jugendliche unter ADHS-Pharmakotherapie durch ein nicht invasives Verfahren zu erleichtern. Zur quantitativen Bestimmung wurden zwei unterschiedliche Methoden aus der Literatur weiterentwickelt. So war es möglich, aus Speichel- und Serumproben Amphetamin mittels HPLC-FL Analytik sowie Guanfacin mittels LC-MS/MS Analytik zu quantifizieren. Die chromatographischen Methoden wurden in Anlehnung an die Richtlinien der Gesellschaft für toxikologische und forensische Chemie (GTFCh) erfolgreich validiert.
Zur Untersuchung des Zusammenhangs zwischen Speichel- und Serumkonzentrationen von Amphetamin und Guanfacin bei Kinder und Jugendlichen wurde eine klinische Studie in der Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Universitätsklinikum Würzburgs initiiert. Von 34 Probanden, die mit Lisdexamphetamin und/oder Guanfacin behandelt wurden, konnte jeweils eine korrespondierende Speichel- und Serumprobe gewonnen und quantifiziert werden. Für Amphetamin wurde belegt, dass der Speichel-pH-Wert einen erheblichen Einfluss auf die Wirkstoffverteilung, den Quotienten aus Speichel- und Serumkonzentration, hat (ρ = -0,712; P < 0,001). Dadurch konnte erstmalig unter Berücksichtigung des Speichel-pH-Wertes eine Berechnung der theoretischen Serumkonzentration aus der Speichelkonzentration durchgeführt werden. Es wurde zwar gezeigt, dass sich sowohl der Mittelwert der Differenzen durch die Berechnung theoretischen Serumkonzentration von -343 auf 12 ng/mL als auch die Anzahl der Messwert innerhalb des Akzeptanzintervalls von 20 % verbessern, jedoch war auch nach der Umrechnung die Differenz der Messwerte zu groß, sodass eine klinische Validierung für Amphetamin nicht möglich war. In dieser Studie wurde auch erstmals Guanfacin im Speichel nachgewiesen und quantifiziert, die Konzentrationen lagen zwischen 0,45 und 5,55 ng/mL und waren im Mittel dreifach niedriger als im Serum (2,36 ng/mL vs. 7,47 ng/mL; t (8) = 5,94; P < 0,001).
Die Speichelguanfacinkonzentration wies einen starken Zusammenhang mit der korrespondierenden Serumkonzentration auf (r = 0,758; P = 0,018). Obwohl ein nicht signifikanter Trend für den Einfluss des Speichel-pH-Wertes auf den Quotienten aus Speichel- und Serumkonzentration zu erkennen war, scheint dieser weniger stark ausgeprägt zu sein als bei Amphetamin und anderen basischen Arzneistoffen (r = -0,574; P = 0,106).
Mit der vorliegenden Arbeit konnte zum einen gezeigt werden, dass sich die Speichelbestimmung von Amphetamin nur zum qualitativen Nachweis für TDM eignet. Zum anderen konnte gezeigt werden, dass der Speichel-pH-Wert einen geringeren Einfluss auf die Speichelkonzentration von Guanfacin zu haben scheint, als es bei Amphetamin der Fall ist, und sich Guanfacin somit potenziell für TDM in Speichel eignet. Zukünftig könnten Speichelproben zur Kontrolle der Adhärenz sowohl von Amphetamin als auch von Guanfacin verwendet werden und die Probenahme für die Patienten vereinfachen.
Most medicines are taken orally. To enter the systemic circulation, they dissolve in the intestinal fluid, cross the epithelial barrier, and pass through the liver. Intestinal absorption is driven by the unique features of the gastrointestinal tract, including the bile colloids formed in the lumen and the mucus layer covering the intestinal epithelium. Neglecting this multifaceted environment can lead to poor drug development decisions, especially for poorly water-soluble drugs that interact with bile and mucus. However, there is a lack of a rationale nexus of molecular interactions between oral medicines and gastrointestinal components with drug bioavailability. Against this background, this thesis aims to develop biopharmaceutical strategies to optimize the presentation of oral therapeutics to the intestinal epithelial barrier.
In Chapter 1, the dynamics of bile colloids upon solubilization of the poorly-water soluble drug Perphenazine was studied. Perphenazine impacted molecular arrangement, structure, binding thermodynamics, and induced a morphological transition from vesicles to worm-like micelles. Despite these dynamics, the bile colloids ensured stable relative amounts of free drug substance. The chapter was published in Langmuir.
Chapter 2 examined the impact of pharmaceutical polymeric excipients on bile-mediated drug solubilization. Perphenazine and Imatinib were introduced as model compounds interacting with bile, whereas Metoprolol did not. Some polymers altered the arrangement and geometry of bile colloids, thereby affecting the molecularly soluble amount of those drugs interacting with bile. These insights into the bile-drug-excipient interplay provide a blueprint to optimizing formulations leveraging bile solubilization. The chapter was published in Journal of Controlled Release.
Chapter 3 deals with the impact of bile on porcine intestinal mucus. Mucus exposed to bile solution changed transiently, it stiffened, and the overall diffusion rate increased. The bile-induced changes eased the transport of the bile-interacting drug substance Fluphenazine, whereas Metoprolol was unaffected. This dichotomous pattern was linked to bioavailability in rats and generalized based on two previously published data sets. The outcomes point to a bile-mucus interaction relevant to drug delivery. The chapter is submitted.
The Appendix provides a guide for biopharmaceutical characterization of drug substances by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy aiming at establishing a predictive algorithm.
In summary, this thesis deciphers bile-driven mechanisms shaping intestinal drug absorption. Based on these molecular insights, pharmaceuticals can be developed along a biopharmaceutical optimization, ultimately leading to better oral drugs of tomorrow.
In this thesis, a new approach of a qNMR method has been investigated to demonstrate the reliability and importance of this method as an alternative solution for analyzing oil quality parameters, especially in RFO, which has particular characteristics (red color). This study also includes the chemometric evaluation of spectral data for authentication, visual grouping, and prediction of RFO quality based on the degree of unsaturation, FFA value, and unsaturated fatty acid content.
The analytical measurement procedure of NMR spectroscopy begins with optimization of the analytical acquisition parameters, including effect of solvent, effect of sample concentration, selection of appropriate internal standards, determination of T1, and method validation. Furthermore, the results of the method development were interpreted to RFO samples evaluation, which began with determining the assignment of signal spectra for the determination of AV, SV, EV, and IV simultaneously with: the hydrolysis approach and standard addition of palmitic acid.
This thesis aimed at searching for new effective agents against Multidrug-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae. This is necessitated by the urgent need for new and innovative antibacterial agents addressing the critical priority pathogens prescribed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Among the available means for antibiotics discovery and development, nature has long remained a proven, innovative, and highly reliable gateway to successful antibacterial agents. Nevertheless, numerous challenges surrounding this valuable source of antibiotics among other drugs are limiting the complete realization of its potential. These include the availability of good quality data on the highly potential natural sources, limitations in methods to prepare and screen crude extracts, bottlenecks in reproducing biological potentials observed in natural sources, as well as hurdles in isolation, purification, and characterization of natural compounds with diverse structural complexities.
Through an extensive review of the literature, it was possible to prepare libraries of plant species and phytochemicals with reported high potentials against Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumnoniae. The libraries were profiled to highlight the existing patterns and relationships between the reported antibacterial activities and studied plants’ families and parts, the type of the extracting solvent, as well as phytochemicals’ classes, drug-likeness and selected parameters for enhanced accumulation within the Gram-negative bacteria. In addition, motivations, objectives, the role of traditional practices and other crucial experimental aspects in the screening of plant extracts for antibacterial activities were identified and discussed.
Based on the implemented strict inclusion criteria, the created libraries grant speedy access to well-evaluated plant species and phytochemicals with potential antibacterial activities. This way, further studies in yet unexplored directions can be pursued from the indicated or related species and compounds. Moreover, the availability of compound libraries focusing on related bacterial species serves a great role in the ongoing efforts to develop the rules of antibiotics penetrability and accumulation, particularly among Gram-negative bacteria. Here, in addition to hunting for potential scaffolds from such libraries, detailed evaluations of large pool compounds with related antibacterial potential can grant a better understanding of structural features crucial for their penetration and accumulation. Based on the scarcity of compounds with broad structural diversity and activity against Gram-negative bacteria, the creation and updating of such libraries remain a laborious but important undertaking.
A Pressurized Microwave Assisted Extraction (PMAE) method over a short duration and low-temperature conditions was developed and compared to the conventional cold maceration over a prolonged duration. This method aimed at addressing the key challenges associated with conventional extraction methods which require long extraction durations, and use more energy and solvents, in addition to larger quantities of plant materials. Furthermore, the method was intended to replace the common use of high temperatures in most of the current MAE applications. Interestingly, the yields of 16 of 18 plant samples under PMAE over 30 minutes were found to be within 91–139% of those obtained from the 24h extraction by maceration. Additionally, different levels of selectivity were observed upon an analytical comparison of the extracts obtained from the two methods. Although each method indicated selective extraction of higher quantities or additional types of certain phytochemicals, a slightly larger number of additional compounds were observed under maceration. The use of this method allows efficient extraction of a large number of samples while sparing heat-sensitive compounds and minimizing chances for cross-reactions between phytochemicals.
Moreover, findings from another investigation highlighted the low likelihood of reproducing antibacterial activities previously reported among various plant species, identified the key drivers of poor reproducibility, and proposed possible measures to mitigate the challenge. The majority of extracts showed no activities up to the highest tested concentration of 1024 µg/mL. In the case of identical plant species, some activities were observed only in 15% of the extracts, in which the Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations (MICs) were 4 – 16-fold higher than those in previous reports. Evaluation of related plant species indicated better outcomes, whereby about 18% of the extracts showed activities in a range of 128–512 μg/mL, some of the activities being superior to those previously reported in related species.
Furthermore, solubilizing plant crude extracts during the preparation of test solutions for Antibacterial Susceptibility Testing (AST) assays was outlined as a key challenge. In trying to address this challenge, some studies have used bacteria-toxic solvents or generally unacceptable concentrations of common solubilizing agents. Both approaches are liable to give false positive results. In line with this challenge, this study has underscored the suitability of acetone in the solubilization of crude plant extracts. Using acetone, better solubility profiles of crude plant extracts were observed compared to dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) at up to 10 %v/v. Based on lacking toxicity against many bacteria species at up to 25 %v/v, its use in the solubilization of poorly water-soluble extracts, particularly those from less polar solvents is advocated.
In a subsequent study, four galloylglucoses were isolated from the leaves of Paeonia officinalis L., whereby the isolation of three of them from this source was reported for the first time. The isolation and characterization of these compounds were driven by the crucial need to continually fill the pre-clinical antibiotics pipeline using all available means. Application of the bioautography-guided isolation and a matrix of extractive, chromatographic, spectroscopic, and spectrometric techniques enabled the isolation of the compounds at high purity levels and the ascertainment of their chemical structures.
Further, the compounds exhibited the Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations (MIC) in a range of 2–256 µg/mL against Multidrug-Resistant (MDR) strains of E. coli and K. pneumonia exhibiting diverse MDR phenotypes. In that, the antibacterial activities of three of the isolated compounds were reported for the first time. The observed in vitro activities of the compounds resonated with their in vivo potentials as determined using the Galleria mellonella larvae model. Additionally, the susceptibility of the MDR bacteria to the galloylglucoses was noted to vary depending on the nature of the resistance enzymes expressed by the MDR bacteria. In that, the bacteria expressing enzymes with higher content of aromatic amino acids and zero or positive net charges were generally more susceptible. Following these findings, a plausible hypothesis for the observed patterns was put forward.
The generally challenging pharmacokinetic properties of galloylglucoses limit their further development into therapeutic agents. However, the compounds can replace or reduce the use of antibiotics in livestock keeping as well as in the treatment of septic wounds and topical or oral cavity infections, among other potential uses.
Using nature-inspired approaches, a series of glucovanillin derivatives were prepared following feasible synthetic pathways which in most cases ensured good yields and high purity levels. Some of the prepared compounds showed MIC values in a range of 128 – 512 μg/mL against susceptible and MDR strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE). These findings emphasize the previously reported essence of small molecular size, the presence of protonatable amino groups and halogen atoms, as well as an amphiphilic character, as crucial features for potential antibacterial agents.
Due to the experienced limited success in the search for new antibacterial agents using purely synthetic means, pursuing semi-synthetic approaches as employed in this study are highly encouraged. This way, it is possible to explore broader chemical spaces around natural scaffolds while addressing their inherent limitations such as solubility, toxicity, and poor pharmacokinetic profiles.
Serum half-life elongation as well as the immobilization of small proteins like cytokines is still one of the key challenges for biologics. This accounts also for cytokines, which often have a molecular weight between 5 and 40 kDa and are therefore prone to elimination by renal filtration and sinusoidal lining cells. To solve this problem biologics are often conjugated to poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG), which is the gold standard for the so called PEGylation. PEG is a synthetic, non-biodegradable polymer for increasing the hydrodynamic radius of the conjugated protein to modulate their pharmacokinetic performance and prolong their therapeutic outcome. Though the benefits of PEGylation are significant, they also come with a prize, which is a loss in bioactivity due to steric hindrance and most often the usage of heterogeneous bioconjugation chemistries. While PEG is a safe excipient in most cases, an increasing number of PEG related side-effects, such as immunological responses like hypersensitivity and accelerated blood clearance upon repetitive exposure occur, which highlights the need for PEG alternative polymers, that can replace PEG in such cases.
Another promising method to significantly prolong the residence time of biologics is to immobilize them at a desired location. To achieve this, the transglutaminase (TG) Factor XIIIa (FXIIIa), which is an important human enzyme during blood coagulation can be used. FXIIIa can recognize specific peptide sequences that contain a lysine as substrates and link them covalently to another peptide sequence, that contains a glutamine, forming an isopeptide bond. This mechanism can be used to link modified proteins, which have a N- or C-terminal incorporated signal peptide by mutation, to the extracellular matrix (ECM) of tissues.
Additionally, both above-described methods can be combined. By artificially introducing a TG recognition sequence, it is possible to attach an azide group containing peptide site-specifically to the TG, recognition sequence. This allows the creation of a site-selective reactive site at the proteins N- or C-terminus, which can then be targeted by cyclooctyne functionalized polymers, just like amber codon functionalized proteins.
This thesis has focused on the two cytokines human Interferon-α2a (IFN-α2a) and human, as well as murine Interleukin-4 (IL-4) as model proteins to investigate the above-described challenges. IFN-α2a has been chosen as a model protein because it is an approved drug since 1986 in systemic applications against some viral infections, as well as several types of cancer. Furthermore, IFN-α2 is also approved in three PEGylated forms, which have different molecular weights and use different conjugation techniques for polymer attachment. This turns it into an ideal candidate to compare new polymers against the gold standard PEG. Interleukin-4 (IL-4) has been chosen as the second model protein due to its similar size and biopotency. This allows to compare found trends from IFN-α2a with another bioconjugate platform and distinguish between IFN-α2a specific, or general trends. Furthermore, IL-4 is a promising candidate for clinical applications as it is a potent anti-inflammatory protein, which polarizes macrophages from the pro-inflammatory M1 state into the anti-inflammatory M2 state.
The bile system in vertebrates is an evolutionary conserved endogenous solubilization system for hydrophobic fats and poorly water-soluble vitamins. Bile pours out from the gallbladder through the common bile duct into the duodenum triggered by cholecystokinin. Cholecystokinin is released from enteroendocrine cells after food intake. The small intestine is also the absorption site of many orally administered drugs. Most emerging drug candidates belong to the class of poorly water-soluble drugs (PWSDs). Like hydrophobic vitamins, these PWSDs might as well be solubilized by bile. Therefore, this natural system is of high interest for drug formulation strategies. Simulated intestinal fluids containing bile salts (e.g., taurocholate TC) and phospholipids (e.g., lecithin L) have been widely applied over the last decade to approximate the behavior of PWSDs in the intestine. Solubilization by bile can enhance the oral absorption of PWSDs being at least in part responsible for the positive “food effect”. The dissolution rate of PWSDs can be also enhanced by the presence of bile. Furthermore, some PWSDs profit from supersaturation stabilization by bile salts. Some excipients solubilizing PWSDs seemed to be promising candidates for drug formulation when investigated in vitro without bile. When tested in vivo, these excipients reduced the bioavailability of drugs. However, these observations have been hardly examined on a molecular level and general links between bile interaction in vitro and bioavailability are still missing.
This thesis investigated the interplay of bile, PWSDs, and excipients on a molecular level, providing formulation scientists a blueprint for rational formulation design taking bile/PWSD/excipient/ interaction into account. The first chapter focus on an in silico 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy-based algorithm for bile/drug interaction prediction. Chapter II to IV report the impact of excipients on bioavailability of PWSDs interacting with bile. At last, we summarized helpful in vitro methods for drug formulation excipient choice harnessing biopharmaceutic solubilization in chapter V.
Chapter I applies 1H NMR studies with bile and drugs on a large scale for quantitative structure-property relationship analysis. 141 drugs were tested in simulated intestinal media by 1H NMR. Drug aryl-proton signal shifts were correlated to in silico calculated molecular 2D descriptors. The probability of a drug interacting with bile was dependent on its polarizability and lipophilicity, whereas interaction with lipids in simulated intestinal media components was dependent on molecular symmetry, lipophilicity, hydrogen bond acceptor capability, and aromaticity. The probability of a drug to interact with bile was predictive for a positive food effect. This algorithm might help in the future to identify a bile and lipid interacting drug a priori.
Chapter II investigates the impact of excipients on bile and free drug fraction. Three different interaction patterns for excipients were observed. The first pattern defined excipients that interacted with bile and irreversibly bound bile. Therefore, the free drug fraction of bile interacting drugs increased. The second pattern categorized excipients that formed new colloidal entities with bile which had a high affinity to bile interacting drugs. These colloids trapped the drug and decreased the free drug fraction. The last excipient pattern described excipients that formed supramolecular structures in coexistence with bile and had no impact on the free drug fraction. These effects were only observed for drugs interacting with bile (Perphenazine and Imatinib). Metoprolol’s free drug fraction, a compound not interacting with bile, was unaffected by bile or bile/excipient interaction. We hypothesized that bile/excipient interactions may reduce the bioavailability of bile interacting drugs.
Chapter III addresses the hypothesis from chapter II. A pharmacokinetic study in rats revealed that the absorption of Perphenazine was reduced by bile interacting excipients due to bile/excipient interaction. The simultaneous administration of excipient patterns I and II did not further reduce or enhance Perphenazine absorption. Conversely, the absorption of Metoprolol was not impacted by excipients. This reinforced the hypothesis, that drugs interacting with bile should not be formulated with excipients also interacting with bile.
Chapter IV further elaborates which in vitro methods using simulated intestinal fluids are predictive for a drug’s pharmacokinetic profile. The PWSD Naporafenib was analyzed in vitro with simulated intestinal fluids and in presence of excipients regarding solubility, supersaturation, and free drug fraction. Naporafenib showed a strong interaction with TC/L from simulated bile. Assays with TC/L, but not without identified one excipient as possibly bioavailability reducing, one as supersaturation destabilizing, and the last as bile not interacting and supersaturation stabilizing excipient. A pharmacokinetic study in beagle dogs outlined and confirmed the in vitro predictions.
The Appendix summarizes in vivo predictive methods as presented in chapter I to IV and rationalizes experimental design paving the way towards a biopharmaceutic excipient screening. The first presented preliminary decision tree is transformed into a step-by-step instruction. The presented decision matrix might serve as a blueprint for processes in early phase drug formulation development.
In summary, this thesis describes how a drug can be defined as bile interacting or non-interacting and gives a guide as well how to rate the impact of excipients on bile. We showed in two in vivo studies that bile/excipient interaction reduced the bioavailability of bile interacting drugs, while bile non-interacting drugs were not affected. We pointed out that the bile solubilization system must be incorporated during drug formulation design. Simulated gastrointestinal fluids offer a well-established platform studying the fate of drugs and excipients in vivo. Therefore, rational implementation of biopharmaceutic drug and excipient screening steers towards efficacy of oral PWSD formulation design.
The human African trypanosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease, which is caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma brucei and transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly. An untreated infection leads to death. However, only a few drugs with significant drawbacks are currently available for treatment. In this thesis, quinolone amides with an antitrypanosomal activity were synthesized and their biological and physicochemical properties were measured. New structure-activity relationships and a promising lead structure were discovered.
A closer look at long-established drugs: enantioselective protein binding and stability studies
(2023)
The aim of this work was to investigate older, established drugs. The extent of the protein binding of chiral ephedra alkaloids to AGP and of ketamine to albumin was determined. Since enantiomers of these drugs are individual available, the focus was on possible enantioselective binding and structural moieties involved in the binding.
Previously published work suggested that ephedrine and pseudoephedrine can bind stereoselectively to proteins other than albumin in serum. For the determination of the extent of protein binding, the established ultrafiltration with subsequent chiral CE analysis was used. To determine the influence of basicity on binding, the drugs methylephedrine and norephedrine were also analyzed. Drug binding to AGP increased with increasing basicity as follows: norephedrine < methylephedrine < ephedrine < pseudoephedrine. pKaff was determined both graphically using the Klotz plot and mathematical indicating a low affinity of the ephedra alkaloids to AGP. Using STD-NMR spectroscopy experiments the aromatic protons and the C-CH3 side chain were shown to be most strongly involved in binding, which could be confirmed by molecular docking experiments in more detail. For all drugs, van der Waals-, π π , cationic interactions, hydrogen bonds, and a formation of a salt bridge were observed. The individual enantiomers showed no significant differences and thus the binding of ephedra alkaloids to AGP is not significant.
In contrast to the ephedra alkaloids, the possible enantioselective binding to albumin was investigated for R and S ketamine. Again, ultrafiltration followed by CE analysis was performed. The binding of ketamine to one main binding site could be identified. A non-linear fit was used for the determination of pKaff. Using the NMR methods STD-NMR, waterLOGSY-NMR, and CPMG-NMRspectroscopy: the aromatic protons as well as the protons of the NCH3 methyl group showed the largest signal intensity changes, while the cyclohexanone protons showed the smallest changes. pKaff was also determined by the change in the chemical shift at different drug-protein ratios. These obtained values confirm the values obtained from ultrafiltration. Based on this, ketamine is classified as a low-affinity ligand to albumin. There were no significant differences between the individual enantiomers and thus the binding of ketamine to albumin is not a stereoselective process.
Using statistical design of experiments an efficient chiral CE method for determining the extent of protein binding of R and S ketamine to albumin was developed and validated according to ICH Q2 (R1) guideline.
The stability of ketamine was also investigated because a yellowish discoloration of an aqueous solution of ketamine developed under heat. XRPD investigations showed the same crystal structure for all batches examined. An untargeted screening using LC HRMS as well as LC UV measurements showed no degradation of ketamine or the presence of impurities in stress and non-stressed ketamine solutions, confirming the stability of ketamine under the stress conditions investigated. The lower the quality of the water used in the stress tests, the more intense the yellow discoloration occurred. The impurity or the mechanism that causes the yellow discoloration could not be identified.
Oral antineoplastic drugs are an important component in the treatment of solid tumour diseases, haematological and immunological malignancies. Oral drug administration is associated with positive features (e.g., non-invasive drug administration, outpatient care with a high level of independence for the patient and reduced costs for the health care system). The systemic exposure after oral intake however is prone to high IIV as it strongly depends on gastrointestinal absorption processes, which are per se characterized by high inter-and intraindividual variability. Disease and patient-specific characteristics (e.g., disease state, concomitant diseases, concomitant medication, patient demographics) may additionally contribute to variability in plasma concentrations between individual patients. In addition, many oral antineoplastic drugs show complex PK, which has not yet been fully investigated and elucidated for all substances. All this may increase the risk of suboptimal plasma exposure (either subtherapeutic or toxic), which may ultimately jeopardise the success of therapy, either through a loss of efficacy or through increased, intolerable adverse drug reactions. TDM can be used to detect suboptimal plasma levels and prevent permanent under- or overexposure. It is essential in the treatment of ACC with mitotane, a substance with unfavourable PK and high IIV. In the current work a HPLC-UV method for the TDM of mitotane using VAMS was developed. A low sample volume (20 µl) of capillary blood was used in the developed method, which facilitates dense sampling e.g., at treatment initiation. However, no reference ranges for measurements from capillary blood are established so far and a simple conversion from capillary concentrations to plasma concentrations was not possible. To date the therapeutic range is established only for plasma concentrations and observed capillary concentrations could not be reliable interpretated.The multi-kinase inhibitor cabozantinib is also used for the treatment of ACC. However, not all PK properties, like the characteristic second peak in the cabozantinib concentration-time profile have been fully understood so far. To gain a mechanistic understanding of the compound, a PBPK model was developed and various theories for modelling the second peak were explored, revealing that EHC of the compound is most plausible. Cabozantinib is mainly metabolized via CYP3A4 and susceptible to DDI with e.g., CYP3A4 inducers. The DDI between cabozantinib and rifampin was investigated with the developed PBPK model and revealed a reduced cabozantinib exposure (AUC) by 77%. Hence, the combination of cabozantinib with strong CYP inducers should be avoided. If this is not possible, co administration should be monitored using TDM. The model was also used to simulate cabozantinib plasma concentrations at different stages of liver injury. This showed a 64% and 50% increase in total exposure for mild and moderate liver injury, respectively.Ruxolitinib is used, among others, for patients with acute and chronic GvHD. These patients often also receive posaconazole for invasive fungal prophylaxis leading to CYP3A4 mediated DDI between both substances. Different dosing recommendations from the FDA and EMA on the use of ruxolitinib in combination with posaconazole complicate clinical use. To simulate the effect of this relevant DDI, two separate PBPK models for ruxolitinib and posaconazole were developed and combined. Predicted ruxolitinib exposure was compared to observed plasma concentrations obtained in GvHD patients. The model simulations showed that the observed ruxolitinib concentrations in these patients were generally higher than the simulated concentrations in healthy individuals, with standard dosing present in both scenarios. According to the developed model, EMA recommended RUX dose reduction seems to be plausible as due to the complexity of the disease and intake of extensive co-medication, RUX plasma concentration can be higher than expected.
Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs) are involved in signal transmission at the synapses of the parasympathetic nervous system. The five subtypes of mAChRs regulate various body functions such as heart function, gland secretion, memory, and learning. For the development of drugs with the least side-effects possible, the molecular causes of subtype selectivity and signalling bias are under investigation. In this context, the study of dualsteric ligands binding simultaneously to the orthosteric and the allosteric binding sites of the receptor is of high interest.
To date, dualsteric ligands were synthesised as hybrids of full agonists or superagonists being the orthosteric element, linked to known subtype selective allosteric fragments. In this work, the existing library was expanded to hybrid ligands based on the partial agonist pilocarpine. A suitable linker attachment point to pilocarpine was investigated.
For this aim, pilocarpine (2), isopilocarpine (15), pilosinine (16) and desmethyl pilosinine (35) were synthesised as orthosteric ligands and orthosteric fragments for the construction of the hybrid molecules (Figure 42). Pilocarpine was liberated from the commercial hydrochloride or nitrate salt and isopilocarpine was generated by epimerisation of pilocarpine. Pilosinine was synthesised in a Michael addition reaction of a dithiane carrying the imidazole moiety 82 onto the lactone precursor furan-2(5H)-one (83) followed by complete deprotection (Figure 43a).[133] The desmethyl pilosinine (35) was obtained in a newly developed synthetic route based on a Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons (HWE) reaction to build the methylene bridge between the imidazole aldehyde and the precursor of the lactone moiety 57 (Figure 43b). All four orthosters were converted to the respective dualsteric compounds with a naphmethonium fragment as allosteric moiety.
The four orthosteric fragments and the four hybrid molecules with a linker length of six methylene units were tested for their dose dependent G protein recruitment at the receptor subtypes M1–5 using a mini-G nanoBRET assay. The study of the orthosteric ligands revealed that pilocarpine has the highest ability of all four orthosters to induce activity at all receptor subtypes. A change of the cis- to a trans-configuration of the lactone substituents or a complete removal of the ethyl substituent provoked a significant reduction of activity. Removal of the methyl substituent of the imidazole moiety led to improved receptor activation.
The efficacies of the hybrid ligands show that the linker attachment at the imidazole moiety of pilocarpine and its analogues does not abolish activity and hybrid formation of isopilocarpine even improved receptor activation. Thus, the linker attachment point seems a valid choice, but linker length might not be optimum. In contrast to the orthosters, the trans-substitution of the lactone was advantageous for receptor activation of the hybrid ligands. The hybrid without a methyl substituent at the imidazole (69) had an increased efficacy. Additionally, the naphmethonium fragment lowered the maximum effect of pilocarpine, whereas the activity of isopilocarpine was increased. The intensity of both effects was influenced by the subtype selectivity produced by naphmethonium leading, in the case of the pilocarpine hybrid, to less decreased responses or, in the case of the isopilocarpine hybrid, to more increased responses at the M2 and M4 receptors. The results generally lead to the assumption that the allosteric moiety strongly influences the binding poses of the hybrid ligands so that the orthosteric fragments do not interact with the binding site in the same way as the orthosters alone.
A second project was based on molecular dynamics simulations of the binding pose of pilocarpine,[73] leading to the hypothesis that the partial agonism of pilocarpine results from an equilibrium between an agonistic and an antagonistic binding pose at the orthosteric binding site of the receptor. The ratio of occupancy of both binding poses determines the observed efficacy of pilocarpine. The orthosteric binding site provides more space for the ethyl substituent in the supposed antagonistic pose than in the agonistic binding pose. This hypothesis was tested by the synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of pilocarpine analogues with alkyl substituents of different sizes at the lactone (16, 31a, c, d) (Figure 44). The analogues with larger alkyl residues are expected to shift the equilibrium towards the antagonistic binding pose, the analogues with smaller residues should have the inverse effect.
The synthesis of the pilocarpine analogues was first attempted as a mixture of stereoisomers which were supposed to be separated at the end of the synthetic route. The racemic mixture of the thermodynamically more stable trans-isomers of the target compounds was prepared in a one-pot Michael-addition–alkylation reaction of a dithiane imidazole onto furan-2(5H)-one similarly to the synthesis of pilosinine (Figure 45). The resulting enolate was quenched by an iodoalkane to achieve alkylation of the lactone and subsequent complete deprotection yielded the racemic trans-analogues of pilocarpine.[133] After unsuccessful attempts of chiral resolution, the mixture of trans-isomers was converted to a mixture of all four possible diastereomers in a kinetic epimerisation reaction.[95] A separation of the stereoisomers was not possible in this project so only the racemic molecule 16 (pilosinine, R = H) was obtained from this synthetic route.
For the selective synthesis of the cis-isomers following a patent from Reimann,[146] both stereocenters of the target molecules were produced in the last synthetic step by a syn-hydrogenation of the α,β-unsaturated precursor (Figure 46). The racemic pilocarpine analogues, except the butyl derivative (31d), were purified by crystallisation as their nitrate salts. This provided the racemic mixtures with less than 8% of the trans-isomers as impurity. The racemic pilocarpine (2), itself, was obtained with 15% trans-impurity and was used as reference compound. Additionally, the possibility of chiral resolution by chromatographic methods was demonstrated in the case of the methyl derivative (31a). The pharmacological testing of the desired enantiomer of 31a is in progress.
This dissertation focuses on Mip (macrophage infectivity potentiator protein) inhibitors in response to increasing antibiotic resistance. The study follows an antivirulence approach, which aims to inhibit the non-essential Mip protein without exerting too much selective pressure. Three focus areas were (1) development and synthesis of a fluorescent probe for screening Mip inhibitors via fluorescence polarization; (2) design and synthesis of broad spectrum Mip inhibitors bearing a side chain; and (3) understanding the metabolism of Mip inhibitors and identification of active metabolites.
A sub-study addressed the biotinylation of anti-leishmanial compounds from Valeriana wallichii rhizomes, with three tracer molecules synthesized for future pull-down experiments.
In all the projects presented, it is evident that the selection of suitable separation conditions is only one side of the coin. Equally crucial in the development of methods for the quality assessment of APIs/drugs is the right detection system.
The application of CAD as an alternative to UV detection at low wavelength of the two weak chromophore main degradation products of the very polar, zwitterionic API carbocisteine requires the volatility of the mobile phase. Therefore, as a substitute for the non-volatile ion pairing reagent tetrabutylammonium hydroxide (TBAOH), six different volatile alkylamines as well as a RP/SAX mixed-mode column were evaluated. The best selectivity and separation performance comparable to TBAOH was achieved with the RP/SAX column and a mixture of formic acid and trifluoroacetic acid. For the simultaneous optimisation of the evaporation temperature of the CAD as a function of two chromatographic parameters, a central composite design was chosen and the “desirability function” was subsequently applied for modelling. In addition, column bleeding was investigated with a second RP/SAX column (different batch) with the result that the acetonitrile percentage had to be adjusted and preconditioning by injection of concentrated samples is essential. The final mixed-mode method was finally validated with both columns according to the ICH Q2 (R1) guideline.
Based on this, an MS-compatible method was developed with little effort using an identical RP/SAX column in UPLC dimension for the untargeted analysis by HRMS of two carbocisteine-containing prototype syrup formulations. For a comprehensive characterisation, HRMS and MS/HRMS data were recorded simultaneously by information dependent acquisition mode. Based on the exact masses, isotope patterns and an in silico plausibility check of the fragment spectra, the prediction of the structures of the unknown impurities was possible. In both syrup samples, which had been stored for nine months at 40 °C and 75 % r.h., two additional impurities of carbocisteine (i.e. lactam of the sulfoxides and disulphide between cysteine and thioglycolic acid) were identified by comparison with the corresponding prototype placebo samples using general unknown comparative screening. In addition, the formation of Maillard products by binary mixtures with 13C-labelled sugars was revealed in the sucrose-containing formulation.
For the promising hyphenation of the UV detector with the CAD for the simultaneous detection of all UV-active impurities of the cholesterol-lowering drug simvastatin and the only weak chromophore dihydrosimvastatin, the Ph. Eur. method had to be adapted. Besides replacing phosphoric acid with trifluoroacetic acid, the gradient also had to be adjusted and a third critical peak pair was observed. Based on validation experiments (according to the ICH Q2 (R1) guideline), the suitability of the CAD for sensitive detection (LOQ = 0.0175 % m/m) was proven.
To further investigate the robustness of the adapted method and CAD, a Plackett-Burman design was chosen. None of the factors had a statistically significant effect on the S/N of the CAD in the ranges tested. Regarding the three critical peak pairs, on the other hand, the factors to be controlled were statistically established, so that a targeted correction is possible if the system suitability test is not passed. The idea of employing a hyphenated UV-CAD system was finally applied to the structurally closely related lovastatin and its specified impurity dihydrolovastatin. Here, the CAD showed a significantly better S/N compared to the compendial UV detection at 200 nm.
The suitability of CAD for the analysis of non-volatile fatty acids in polysorbate 80 (PS80) as favourable alternative to the Ph. Eur. GC method (no time-consuming, error-prone and toxic derivatisation) has already been demonstrated. The aim of this project was therefore to develop a robust method with a focus on the AQbD principles, which can be used for the analysis of other excipients with similar fatty acid composition. After the definition of the analytical target profile and a risk assessment by means of an Ishikawa diagram, a suitable C18 column and the chromatographic framework conditions (formic acid concentration and initial/final gradient conditions) were selected after only few preliminary runs. The remaining critical method parameters were then investigated with the help of DoE and RSM. Using the obtained model equations, Monte Carlo simulations were performed to create the method operable design region as a region of theoretical robustness. After validation according to ICH Q2 (R1), the fatty acid composition of a magnesium stearate batch was successfully analysed as a further application example in addition to PS80.
The CAD was able to prove its potential in all the issues investigated in the context of this doctoral thesis. As a cost-effective alternative compared to MS instruments, it thus closes a gap in the quality assessment of APIs or excipients without a suitable chromophore. The easy method transfer to (HR)MS instruments also allows for a unique degree of sample characterisation through untargeted approaches in case of new impurities. For resource- and time-efficient work, the possibilities and limitations of software tools for method development and data evaluation as well as the application of risk-based approaches such as AQbD should also be considered.
Die Interaktion des onkogenen Transkriptionsfaktors MYCN mit der Ser/Thr Kinase Aurora-A verhindert
dessen Abbau über das Ubiquitin Proteasomsystem indem die Rekrutierung des SCF FbxW7 Komplexes
verhindert wird. Die Kinase nimmt mit der Bindung an MYCN eine aktive Konformation ein und erhält
somit die Fähigkeit zur Kinaseaktivität ohne die sonst notwendige Phosphorylierung von Thr288 oder
die Anwesenheit eines Aktivators wie TPX2. Da hohe MYCN Konzentrationen Tumore wie
Neuroblastome antreiben, ist die Störung der Komplexbildung mit Aurora-A eine valide Strategie zur
Entwicklung von Chemotherapeutika. Einige Inhibitoren von Aurora-A wie Alisertib (MLN8237) sind in
der Lage, eine Konformationsänderung in der Kinase zu verursachen, die mit der Bindung von MYCN
inkompatibel ist und auf diese Weise den Abbau des Transkriptionsfaktors induziert. Da Aurora-A
wichtige Funktionen in der Mitose übernimmt, könnte eine direkte Adressierung des Komplexes anstelle
einer systemischen Inhibition der Kinase vielversprechender sein.
Ziel des Projektes war die Identifizierung von Molekülen, die selektiv an das Interface des
Aurora-A – MYCN Komplexes binden und weiter optimiert werden können, um einen gezielten Abbau
des Transkriptionsfaktors über einen PROTAC Ansatz zu ermöglichen. Virtuelle Screenings und
molekulardynamische Simulationen wurden durchgeführt, um kommerziell erhältliche Verbindungen zu
identifizieren, welche mit einer Bindetasche des Komplexes interagieren, die nur zustande kommt, wenn
beide Proteine miteinander interagieren. Aus einem ersten Set von zehn potentiellen Liganden wurde
für vier eine selektive Interaktion mit dem Protein – Protein Komplex gegenüber Aurora-A oder MYCN
alleine in STD-NMR Experimenten bestätigt. Zwei der Hits besaßen ein identisches Grundgerüst und
wurden als Ausganspunkt für die Optimierung zu potenteren Liganden genutzt. Das Gerüst wurde
fragmentweise vergrößert und in Richtung besserer in-silico Ergebnisse und Funktionalisierung zur
Anbringung von E3-Ligase-Liganden optimiert. Neun dieser Liganden der zweiten Generation wurden
synthetisiert.
Um quantitative Bindungsdaten zu erhalten, wurde ein kovalent verknüpftes Aurora-A – MYCN
Konstrukt entworfen. Die strukturelle und funktionale Integrität wurde in STD-NMR und BLI
Experimenten mit bekannten Aurora-A Inhibitoren bestätigt, sowie in NMR-basierten ATPase Assays.
Zusätzlich konnte die Kristallstruktur des Konstrukts gelöst und damit die Validität des Designs bestätigt
werden. Quantitative Messungen der synthetisierten Moleküle identifizierten HD19S als Hit mit einer
zehnfach höheren Affinität für das Aurora-A – MYCN Konstrukt im Vergleich zu der Kinase allein.
Zusätzlich wurden in-silico Untersuchungen zu PROTACs der Aurora-A Kinase durchgeführt.
Interaktionen zwischen Aurora-A, der E3-Ligase Cereblon und den Liganden wurden modelliert und für
die Erklärung unterschiedlicher Aktivitäten der eingesetzten PROTACs verwendet. Zudem zeigte das
aktivste PROTAC eine hohe Selektivität für Aurora-A gegenüber Aurora-B, obwohl die verwendete
Erkennungseinheit (Alisertib) an beide Aurora-Proteine bindet. Dieser Umstand konnte durch
energetische Analysen von molekulardynamischen Simulationen der ternären Komplexe erklärt werden.
Optimierungsmöglichkeiten für eine effizientere Degradation von Aurora-A durch die PROTACs wurden
basierend auf modifizierten Erkennungseinheiten und verbesserten Linkern untersucht.
Der aus der in Frankreich kultivierten Meeres-Kiefer (Pinus pinaster) gewonnene und standardisierte Rindenextrakt Pycnogenol enthält neben Procyanidinen auch weitere polyphenolische sekundäre Naturstoffe und ist zudem weltweit als USP-gelistetes Nahrungsergänzungsmittel kommerziell erhältlich. Der Konsum von polyphenolreichen Lebensmitteln ist ebenso wie die Einnahme von Pycnogenol mit einer Vielzahl von positiven Effekten bei verschiedenen pathophysiologischen Prozessen assoziiert. Dazu zählen beispielsweise antioxidative oder antiinflammatorische Wirkungen, welche sowohl in vitro als auch in vivo beobachtet werden konnten. Bislang gelang es nach der Einnahme des Extraktes nicht alle in Humanserum oder -plasma detektierten Substanzen zu identifizieren; zudem ist nicht geklärt, von welchen Stoffen konkret eine Bioaktivität ausgeht oder ob diese durch synergistische Effekte zustande kommt. Aus diesen Gründen sollten in der vorliegenden Arbeit im Rahmen einer Klinischen Studie bislang nicht beschriebene Analyten in Humanserum mittels UHPLC-qTOF-MS charakterisiert werden. Hierbei wurde ein ungerichteter, metabolomischer Ansatz gewählt. Die Studienproben der Proband*innen wurden dabei also ohne etwaige Restriktionen analysiert, beispielsweise hinsichtlich möglicher Molekülstrukturen oder der Retentionszeiten der detektierten Analyten. Näher betrachtet werden sollten Analyten, die in einer individuellen Serumprobe nach Beginn der viertägigen Pycnogenol-Einnahme neu auftraten.
In Anschluss an eine Probenvorbereitung mittels methanolischer Proteinpräzipitation im sauren Milieu konnten in dem Humanserum der Proband*innen im ESI-Positiv-Modus fünf und im ESI-Negativ-Modus 23 interessante Analyten nachgewiesen werden, die auf die Einnahme von Pycnogenol zurückzuführen waren. Elf dieser Substanzen konnte eine Struktur zugeordnet werden, wobei alle ausschließlich als Sulfatkonjugate vorlagen. Zu diesen zählten neben Zimtsäure-Derivaten wie Ferulasäure-Sulfat zudem Flavonoide, z. B.
Taxifolin-Sulfat, aber auch Phenylvaleriansäure-Abkömmlinge, beispielsweise Hydroxydihydroxyphenylvaleriansäure-Sulfat, sowie Vertreter aus der Gruppe der Benzoesäuren und weitere Aromaten wie z. B. Pyrogallol-Sulfat oder Protocatechusäure-Sulfat.
Nach unserem besten Wissen war der Aspekt der ausschließlichen Sulfatierung neuartig. Wie aufgrund des interindividuell variablen Metabolismus zu erwarten, insbesondere durch das enterale Mikrobiom, war die Verteilung dieser sogenannten Marker innerhalb der 15 Studienteilnehmenden sehr heterogen. Nicht jeder Marker wurde bei jeder Person erfasst; die Spannweite reichte dabei von einem Teilnehmenden im Falle des mikrobiellen Metaboliten Hydroxyphenylvaleriansäure-Sulfat bis hin zu 14 Proband*innen bei einer nicht-identifizierbaren, jedoch wahrscheinlich endogenen Substanz im ESI-Positiv-Modus. Am häufigsten wurden die elf zuordenbaren Analyten vier Stunden nach der Einnahme von Pycnogenol über einen Zeitraum von vier Tagen bestimmt.
Im Anschluss sollte die Bioaktivität dieser Substanzen in einem endothelialen Zellkulturmodell untersucht werden. Das Endothel wurde als Zielstruktur gewählt, da eine endotheliale Dysfunktion in der Pathogenese einer Reihe von Krankheiten mit ausgeprägter Mortalität und Morbidität eine bedeutende Rolle spielt. Zudem wurde bereits eine positive Wirkung auf die Endothelfunktion nach der Einnahme von Pycnogenol beschrieben, wobei bis dato der Mechanismus auf molekularer Ebene unklar war.
Die Charakterisierung der Sulfatkonjugate bezüglich ihrer Bioaktivität ex vivo mit humanen Endothelzellen aus der Nabelschnurvene (HUVEC) gestaltete sich herausfordernd. Initial sollte untersucht werden, inwiefern diese Substanzen einer durch einen Entzündungsstimulus hervorgerufenen Schädigung der endothelialen Glycocalyx entgegenwirken oder diese vermeiden können. Allerdings ließen sich mit den verschiedenen inflammatorischen Stimuli Lipopolysaccharid (LPS), Tumornekrosefaktor-α (TNF-α) und Wasserstoffperoxid bezüglich Konzentration und Inkubationsdauer keine reproduzierbaren Kulturbedingungen für eine valide ELISA-Quantifizierung des endothelialen Markers Heparansulfat etablieren. Im Anschluss erfolgte unter dem Einfluss einer TNF-α-Stimulation ein orientierendes Screening mit den Monosubstanzen Ferulasäure und Protocatechusäure bzw. mit deren Sulfatkonjugaten in Konzentrationen von 0,1 und 0,5 µM. Dabei zeigten die Konjugate beider Analyten bei der niedrigeren Konzentration tendenziell eine glycocalyx-protektive Wirkung, welche bei der höheren Konzentration jedoch nicht mehr beobachtet werden konnte. Die endotheliale Permeabilität wurde mittels eines FITC-Dextran-Permeabilitäts-Assays untersucht. Hiermit sollte ebenfalls ein möglicher endothel-protektiver Einfluss der sulfatierten Substanzen unter entzündlichen Bedingungen (TNF-α-Stimulation) beleuchtet werden. Jedoch konnte weder bei Ferulasäure oder Protocatechusäure noch bei deren Sulfatkonjugate oder Taxifolin in diesem Modell ein Einfluss auf die endotheliale Barrierefunktion erfasst werden.
Ursprünglich war abschließend geplant in einem ex vivo-Modell die Humanserum-Proben mit dem darin enthaltenen Gemisch aus möglicherweise bioaktiven Metaboliten direkt im Zellkulturmodell auf ihre Wirkung zu testen. Dies hat den Vorteil, dass simultan synergistische Effekte und Einflüsse der Matrix untersucht werden können und ausschließlich in vivo erreichbare Konzentrationen eingesetzt werden. Aufgrund der limitierten Verfügbarkeit der Studienproben und der oben geschilderten heterogenen Ergebnisse wurde auf eine weitere Analyse im Rahmen eines ex vivo-Modells verzichtet.
Mit der vorliegenden Arbeit konnte gezeigt werden, dass nach der Einnahme von Pycnogenol resorbierte Bestandteile und Metabolite in Humanserum ausschließlich als Sulfatkonjugate vorlagen. Zudem wurde bezüglich der Evaluation der endothelialen Bioaktivität durch Polyphenole eine Grundlage für weitere Untersuchungen geschaffen. Damit konnte ein Beitrag zur pharmakokinetischen und -dynamischen Charakterisierung von Pycnogenol geleistet werden.
As part of the parasympathetic nervous system, muscarinic receptors are involved in the regulation of numerous functions in the human body. However, targeting a specific subtype of muscarinic receptors is challenging due to the high degree of similarity within the binding site of the endogenous neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Therefore, this study focused on the investigation of dualsteric ligands. Such hybrid ligands target the orthosteric acetylcholine binding site and, simultaneously, a distinct allosteric binding site. Since allosteric binding regions show significant structural differences throughout muscarinic receptor subtypes, it was aimed to produce selective ligands by means of combination of two pharmacophores in one molecule. Herein, the thienopyridine derivatives LY2033298 and LY2119620 were chosen as allosteric moieties. Based on literature studies, the investigated allosteric modulators were analyzed in terms of adequate attachment points for the combination with an orthosteric agonist. As orthosteric units, muscarinic superagonist iperoxo, xanomeline, and TMA were applied in this work. Since the distance between orthosteric and allosteric moieties plays a crucial role for dualsteric ligand binding, the linker chain length was also varied. Pharmacological investigations of the synthesized hybrid ligands were perfomed via FRET- and BRET-assay measurements.
Alzheimer´s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease and the most common form of dementia with still no preventive or curative treatment. Besides several risk factors, age is one of the major risks for AD and with an aging society, there is an urgent need for disease modifying agents. The strategy to address only one target within the intertwined network of AD failed so far.
Natural products especially the phytochemical flavonoids, which are poly-phenolic natural products, have shown great potential as disease modifying agents against neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer´s disease (AD) with activities even in vivo. Flavonoids are produced by many plants and the native Californian plant Eriodictyon californicum is particularly rich in flavonoids. One of the major flavonoids of E. californicum is sterubin, a very potent agent against oxidative stress and inflammation, two hallmarks and drivers of AD and neurodegeneration. Herein, racemic sterubin was synthesized and separated into its pure (R)- and (S)-enantiomer by chiral HPLC. The pure enantiomers showed comparable neuroprotection in vitro with no significant differences. The stereoisomers were configurationally stable in methanol, but fast racemization was observed in culture medium. Moreover, the activity of sterubin was investigated in vivo, in an AD mouse model. Sterubin showed a significant positive impact on short- and long-term memory at low dosages.
A promising concept for the increase of activity of single flavonoids is hybridization with aromatic acids like cinnamic or ferulic acids. Hybridization of the natural products taxifolin and silibinin with cinnamic acid led to an overadditive effect of these compounds in phenotypic screening assays related to neurodegeneration and AD. Because there are more potent agents as taxifolin or silibinin, the hybrids were further developed, and different flavonoid cinnamic acid hybrids were synthesized. The connection between flavonoids and cinnamic acid was achieved by an amide instead of a labile ester to improve the stability towards hydrolysis to gain better “druggability” of the compounds. To investigate the oxidation state of the C-ring of the flavonoid part, the dehydro analogues of the respective hybrids were also synthesized. The compounds show neuroprotection against oxytosis, ferroptosis and ATP-depletion in the murine hippocampal cell line HT22. While no overall trend within the flavanones compared to the flavones could be assigned, the taxifolin and the quercetin derivative were the most active compounds in course of all assays. The quercetin derivate even shows greater activity than the taxifolin derivate in every assay. As desired no hydrolysis product was found in cellular uptake experiments after 4h, whereas different metabolites were found. The last part of this work focused on synthetic bioisoteres of the natural product curcumin. Due to the drawbacks of curcumin and flavonoids arising from poor pharmacokinetics, rapid metabolism and sometimes instability in aqueous medium, we have examined the biological activity of azobenzene compounds designed as bioisoteres of curcumin, carrying the pharmacophoric catechol group of flavonoids. These bioisosteres exceeded their parent compounds in counteracting intracellular oxidative stress, neuroinflammation and amyloid-beta aggregation. By incorporating an azobenzene moiety and the isosteric behaviour to the natural parent compounds, these compounds may act as molecular tools for further investigation towards the molecular mode of action of natural products.
All presented studies aimed on the improvement of the quality analysis of already monographed drugs. Thereby different LC methods were applied and coupled to i.e., the UV/VIS detector, the CAD or a hyphenation of these detectors, respectively. The choice of the chromatographic system including the detector was largely dependent on the physicochemical properties of the respective analytes.
With the risk-assessment report on the API cetirizine we presented an exemplary tool, that can help to minimize the risk of the occurrence of unexpected impurities. An in- deep analysis of each step within synthesis pathway by means of reaction matrices of all compounds was performed. It is essential to understand the complete impurity profile of all reactants, solvents, and catalysts and to include them in the matrix. Finally, the API of this synthesis was checked if all impurities are identified by this tool. Of note, a shortcoming of such a targeted approach is that impurities can still occur, but they are not captured. This disadvantage can be partially compensated by non-targeted approaches if they are performed in parallel with the other studies that represent most of the impurities. However, this work also shows that even in a supposedly simple synthesis, potentially hundreds of by-products can be formed. For each of them, it must be decided individually whether their formation is probable or how their quantity can be minimized in order to obtain APIs, that are as pure as possible.
In the dapsone project it was aimed to replace the existing old Ph. Eur. TLC method with a modern RP-HPLC method. This was successful and since Ph. Eur. 10.6, the method developed in this work, became a valid monograph. Within the revision process of the monograph, the individual limits for impurities were tightened. However, this new method needs HPLC instrumentation, suitable to perform gradients. As this is not always available in all control laboratories, we also developed an alternative, more simple method using two different isocratic runs for the impurity analysis. The obtained batch results of both, the new pharmacopoeial method and the more simple one, were in a comparable order of magnitude. Furthermore, within the method development stage of the Ph. Eur. method, we could identify one unknown impurity of the impurity reference by high-resolution MS/MS analysis.
Also, in the baclofen project it was aimed to replace the existing Ph. Eur. method with the introduction of an additional impurity to be quantified. A corresponding method was developed and validated. However, due to the harmonization process of the pharmacopoeias, it is currently not used. In addition, we tried to find further, non- 116
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chromophoric impurities by means of the CAD. However, except for one counterion of an impurity, no further impurities were found. Also, the aforementioned new impurity could not be detected above the reporting threshold in the batches analyzed. As the only individually specified impurity A is also present at a low level, it can be concluded that the examined batches of baclofen are very pure.
The use of universal detectors, such as the CAD can be particularly interesting for compounds with no chromophore or those with only a weak chromophore. Therefore, we decided to take a closer look at the impurity profile of acarbose. Currently, acarbose and its impurities are being studied by low wavelength UV detection at 210 nm. Therefore, the question arose whether there are no other impurities in the API that do not show absorption at this wavelength. CAD, which offers consistent detection properties for all non-volatile compounds, is ideally suited for this purpose. However, it was not so easy to use the CAD together with the UV detector, for example, as a hyphenated detection technique, because the Ph. Eur. method uses phosphate buffers. However, this is non-volatile and therefore inappropriate for the CAD. Therefore, an attempt was made to replace the buffer with a volatile one. However, since this did not lead to satisfactory results and rather the self-degradation process of the stationary phase used could be observed by means of the CAD, it was decided to switch to alternative stationary phases. A column screening also revealed further difficulties with acarbose and its impurities: they show an epimerization reaction at the end of the sugar chain. However, since one wanted to have uniform peaks in the corresponding chromatograms, one had to accelerate this reaction significantly to obtain only one peak for each component. This was best achieved by using two stationary phases: PGC and Amide-HILIC. Impurity-profiling methods could be developed on each of the two phases. In addition, as expected, new impurities could be detected, albeit at a low level. Two of them could even be identified by spiking experiments as the sugar fragments maltose and maltotriose.
Taken together, it can be concluded, that this work has contributed significantly to the improvement of the quality analysis of monographed drugs. In addition to the presented general tool for the identification of potential impurities, one of the methods developed, had already been implemented to the Ph. Eur. In an effort to improve the CAD's universal detection capabilities, additional methods have also been developed. Further, new improved methods for the impurity profiling are ready to use.
Dietary fatty acids serve as objective biomarkers for the estimation of habitual diet mainly because biomarkers are free of memory bias or inaccuracies of food databases. The aim of the present work encompassed the implementation of a gas chromatographical method coupled with a mass spectrometrical and flame-ionization detector for analysis of fatty acid biomarkers in human biospecimens, their analytical determination and statistical evaluation in two different study populations and different biospecimens as well as the elaboration of adverse reactions to food ingredients with special focus on food allergies and food intolerances in the context of a possible implementation into an application for consumer health. The first aim was the identification of potential influence of fatty acid biomarkers on desaturase and elongase indexes (Δ9DI, Δ6DI, Δ5DI and ELOVLI5), which are factors in type 2 diabetes risk, in breast adipose tissue from healthy women. Influence of further variables on respective indexes was also investigated. 40 samples were investigated and potential variables were either collected by questionnaire or determined. Principle component analysis was applied for fatty acid biomarkers (PCdiet1, PCdiet2 and PCdiet3 representative for the dietary intake of vegetable oils/nuts, fish and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils), endogenous estrogens (PCE1) and oxysterols (PCOxy1). Multiple linear regression models were applied. Δ9DI and Δ6DI were influenced non-significantly and significantly negatively by PCdiet2 supporting a putative beneficial effect of vegetable oils and nuts on type 2 diabetes risk factors. ELOVLI5 and Δ5DI were influenced significantly and non-significantly positively by PCdiet1 supporting a putative beneficial effect of fish consumption on type 2 diabetes risk factors. On the other hand, PCdiet1 also significantly and non-significantly positively influenced Δ9DI and Δ6DI supporting a putative adverse effect of fish biomarkers on type 2 diabetes risk factors. The opposing influences of PCdiet1 suggesting an ambivalent role of dietary intake of fish on investigated indexes. Δ6DI was significantly positively influenced by PCdiet3 and number of pregnancies supporting a putative adverse effect of partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and pregnancies on type 2 diabetes risk factors. Lifestyle factors like smoking significantly and non-significantly influenced Δ9DI and Δ6DI putatively adversely. Δ5DI was influenced significantly positively by estrogen active drugs suggesting a putative beneficial effect on type 2 diabetes risk factors. It must be considered that a variation coefficient of up to 0.44 only explained 44% of variance of the respective indexes, suggesting other influencing factors might play a role. The second aim was the implementation of a gas chromatographical method coupled with a mass spectrometrical and flame-ionization detector for analysis of fatty acid biomarkers in human biospecimens. The method was optimized for separation and detection of 40 fatty acids. Mean recovery for tridecanoic acid was x(tridecanoic acid) = 90.51% and for nonadecanoic acid x(nonadecanoic acid) = 96.21%. Thus, there was no significant loss of fatty acids with shorter and longer carbon chains over the extraction process to be expected. Limit of detections were calculated in adipose tissue samples and ranged from 0.007 to 0.077% of the proportion of the respective fatty acid to total fatty acids. The third aim was the investigation if differentiation between breast glandular and adipose tissue had a relevant impact on the analysis of dietary fatty acid biomarkers or if contamination of breast glandular with breast adipose tissue and vice versa was neglectable for the analysis of dietary fatty acid biomarkers. No statistical significant differences were observed for all investigated fatty acid biomarkers (pentadecanoic-, heptadecanoic-, trans palmitoleic-, eicosapentaenoic-, docosahexaenoic-, linoleic and α-linolenic acid) between breast glandular and adipose tissue. Thus, differentiation between breast glandular and adipose tissue seems not to be necessary for the analysis of fatty acids serving as biomarkers for the intake of specific food groups. Potential influence of mixed breast tissue on fatty acid biomarkers analysis seems to be neglectable. The fourth aim was the determination of fatty acid biomarkers in adipose tissue in another study population from healthy participants. 27 adipose tissue samples were analyzed. Milk and ruminant fat biomarkers exhibited proportions of 0.47% for pentadecanoic acid, 0.34% for heptadecanoic acid and 0.25% for trans palmitoleic acid. Fish fatty acid biomarkers revealed proportions of 0.034% for eicosapentaenoic acid and 0.061% for docosahexaenoic acid. The mean proportion of vegetable oils and nuts biomarkers were 9.58% for linoleic acid and 0.48% for α-linolenic acid in all adipose tissues. Principle component analysis was applied for the fatty acid biomarkers to provide objective markers of habitual diet for this study population. PCdiet1 was mainly characterized by pentadecanoic acid, heptadecanoic acid and trans palmitoleic acid and therefore served as a principle component for the dietary intake of milk and ruminant fat. PCdiet2 and PCdiet3 only exhibited pattern for ω3 and ω6 fatty acids but not for dietary intake of specific food groups and could therefore not used as objective marker. PCdiet1, 2 and 3 explained 82.76% of variance. The last aim of this thesis was the elaboration of adverse reactions to food ingredients with special focus on food allergies and food intolerances in the context of a possible implementation into an application for consumer health. Scientific information on adverse reactions to food ingredients and trigger substances was provided in this thesis and possible implementation strategies were evaluated. For food allergens, which have regulatory requirements in the context of labelling, a strategy was elaborated, where it is necessary to provide information on the list of ingredients, the nexus ’contain’ and the respective food allergen as well as information on the name of the product. For food intolerances, which do not have regulatory requirements, limits were shown in the context of the application. If the elaborated food intolerances shall be implemented into the application, a professional dietary concept has to be developed for every food intolerance because of the complexity of the implementation.
The aim of this study was to determine the potential of some Ghanaian underutilized legumes in helping to reduce the problems of poverty, hunger and malnutrition among the vulnerable group of the Ghanaian population. The study looked into the functional properties, fat and fatty acid distribution, raffinose, sucrose, glucose, fructose, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, iron, copper, manganese, zinc, cyanide and isoflavone contents of raw and processed seed flours of Cajanus cajan, Canavalia ensiformis, Canavalia gladiata, Mucuna pruriens, Parkia biglobosa, Phaseolus lunatus and Vigna subterranea. The parameters mentioned above were also determined for raw fruit flour of Dialium guineense. In addition to these, the study also looked into the crude protein and starch contents of the raw and processed seed flours of Canavalia gladiata, Parkia biglobosa and Vigna subterranea. The obtained results suggest that the legumes may have untapped potential, which may be exploited to help assist in reducing hunger, malnutrition and poverty in Ghana. Results of the functional properties reveal that the legumes may serve useful roles in various food products. For instance, velvet tamarind (Dialium guineense) flour may be useful in infant food formulations because of it high solubility and low bulk density. African Locust bean (Parkia biglobosa) flour had the highest fat content among the studied flours, recording a fat content of approximately 14%. It may therefore be economical to express the oil and use the oil as an edible oil or for industrial applications for products such as soaps, shampoos, paints, etc. This means the properties of the oil of African Locust bean flour need to be studied to know the uses of the oil. Unsaturated fatty acids in the cis configuration formed more than 50% of the fatty acids in all the legumes. This observation coupled with the low sodium content of all the legumes suggest that these legumes may be suitable for consumption to prevent cardiovascular diseases. The daily nutrient needs of individuals can be met by the consumption of the appropriate amounts of these legumes. For example, 375.25 g of processed velvet beans (Mucuna pruriens) flour may be able to meet the adequate intake (AI) of 350 mg/day magnesium for adult males.
Schimmelpilze können in Abhängigkeit des Immunstatus und der Vorerkrankungen betroffener Patienten unterschiedliche Krankheitsbilder wie Hypersensitivitäts-erkrankungen oder lebensbedrohliche invasive Infektionen hervorrufen. Da die Diagnosestellung dieser Erkrankungen mitunter komplex und insensitiv ist, sollten im Rahmen dieser Arbeit unterschiedliche Ansätze neuer diagnostischer Assays untersucht werden.
In den letzten Jahren wurden Assays entwickelt, die auf Basis durchflusszytometrisch quantifizierter Pilz-spezifischer T-Zellen aus peripherem Blut einen supportiven Biomarker zur Diagnostik invasiver Mykosen liefern könnten. Da die hierfür isolierten T-Zellen anfällig gegenüber präanalytischer Lagerzeiten und immunsuppressiver Medikation sind, wurden hier Protokolloptimierungen vorgenommen, um anhand eines Vollblut-basierten Assays mit zusätzlicher CD49d-Kostimulation diesen Limitationen entgegen zu wirken. In einer Studie an gesunden Probanden konnte dabei gezeigt werden, dass die Kombination der Durchflusszytometrie mit ausgewählten Zytokin-Messungen (IL-5, IL-10 und IL-17) zu einer verbesserten Erkennung vermehrt Schimmelpilz-exponierter Personen beitragen könnte. Neben Infektionen könnten dabei im umwelt- und arbeitsmedizinischen Kontext Polarisationen der T-Zell-Populationen detektiert werden, welche mit Sensibilisierungen und Hypersensitivität assoziiert werden.
Zusätzlich wurde ein in vitro Transwell® Alveolarmodell zur Simulation pulmonaler Pilzinfektionen für Erreger der Ordnung Mucorales adaptiert, durch Reproduktion wichtiger Merkmale der Pathogenese von Mucormykosen validiert, und für Untersuchungen der Immunpathologie und Erreger-Invasion verwendet. Das Modell wurde anschließend zur in vitro Evaluation von radioaktiv markiertem Amphotericin B mit 99mTc oder 68Ga als nuklearmedizinischen Tracer verwendet. Die untersuchten Schimmelpilze zeigten dabei eine zeit- und dosis-abhängige Aufnahme der Tracer, während bakteriell infizierte Proben nicht detektiert wurden. Die erhobenen Daten dokumentieren ein vielversprechendes Potenzial von Amphotericin B-basierten Tracer, das in zukünftigen in vivo Studien weiter evaluiert werden sollte.
Microbial, mammalian and plant cells produce and contain secondary metabolites, which typically are soluble in water to prevent cell damage by crystallization. The formation of ion pairs, e.g. with carboxylic acids or mineral acids, is a natural blueprint to keep basic metabolites in solution. It was aimed at showing whether the mostly large carboxylates form soluble protic ionic liquids (PILs) with basic natural products resulting in enhanced aqueous solubility. Furthermore, their supramolecular pattern in aqueous solution was studied. Thereby, naturally occurring carboxylic acids were identified being appropriate counterions for natural basic compounds and facilitate the formation of PILs with their beneficial characteristics, like improved dissolution rate and enhanced apparent solubility.
Polymer-Biokonjugationen, vornehmlich mit dem Goldstandard PEG, führen zu einer verbesserten Pharmakokinetik, beeinflussen aber auch die konformative Stabilität von Proteinen. Bisherige Mutationsstudien, in denen überwiegend (Asn)PEG4 -Konjugate der Beta-faltblattstrukturreichen, humanen Pin 1 WW-Domäne untersucht wurden, postulieren auf einer Proteindesolvatation beruhende Stabilisierungsmechanismen: eine Stärkung intramolekularer Salzbrücken und NH-pi-Bindungen, sowie entropisch günstige Wasserverdrängungen um apolare Aminosäuren und Hydroxylgruppen. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, die Protein-Polymer-Dynamik auf molekularer Ebene zu charakterisieren, um damit rationale Ansätze zum Design neuer Biokonjugate voranzutreiben und mögliche PEG-Alternativen zu etablieren. Hierzu wurde eine Vielzahl an Deskriptoren mittels Molekulardynamik-Simulationen der WW-Konjugate gewonnen und mit publizierten Stabilitätsdaten in multivariaten Regressions- und logistischen Klassifikationsmodellen korreliert. Die gewonnenen QSPR-Modelle decken im Vergleich zu einer bereits publizierten, kristallstrukturbasierten Richtlinie einen größeren und strukturell vielfältigeren Datensatz an Konjugaten ab und zeigen gleichzeitig, auch für ein Konjugat der Src SH3-Domäne, eine deutlich verbesserte Leistung. Die Modelldeskriptoren beschreiben sowohl eine Modulation der Solvatation als auch Protein-Polymer-Interaktionen. Metadynamik-Simulationen zeigten zudem die Polymerdynamik während einer partiellen Proteinentfaltung auf. Mithilfe weiterer Simulationen von Konjugaten des alpha-helikalen Her2-Affibodys wurde die Dynamik von PEG und verschiedener Alternativen (LPG, PEtOx, PMeOx) systematisch studiert. PEG interagierte mit positiv geladenen Lysinen und Argininen in der Nähe hydrophober Aminosäuren. LPG zeigte zusätzliche Wechselwirkungen der Hydroxylgruppen mit Aspartaten und Glutamaten. POx-Polymere interagierten mit Phenylalaninen, Tyrosinen und über Carbonylgruppen mit HB-Donatoren. Größere Konjugate (10 - 50 kDa PEG/LPG/PEtOx) des antiviralen Biologikums Interferon-alpha2a wurden mittels gaußbeschleunigter MDs und einer CG-Simulation analysiert. Charakteristische Wechselwirkungspartner stimmten mit den Beobachtungen zu Oligomer-Konjugaten überein. In Einklang mit experimentellen Daten der Kooperationspartner zu den 10-kDa-Varianten deuteten zusätzliche Constrained-Network-Analysen, welche die Proteinflexibilität evaluieren, auf eine thermische Destabilisierung hin. Die Bioaktivität der untersuchten Konjugate wurde weiterhin erfolgreich mit den Gyrationsdurchmessern der modellierten Strukturen korreliert.
Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) are able to specifically direct T cells to tumor antigens and therapy with anti-CD19 CARs has already cured cancer patients with B-cell lymphomas who have undergone long-term therapy non-successful. Despite this impressive result, the therapy is currently only approved as a last treatment option for blood cancers due to its life-threatening deficiencies. For patient safety and to enable additional application such as the treatment of solid tumors, CAR-T cells must be controllable, e. g. by chemically programmable CARs (cpCARs) regulated by hapten-like compounds.
This thesis reports the synthesis and characterization of such hapten-like compounds. In the first step, seven different warheads with two different spacers were bound to biotin in order to find a suitable warhead for programming the cpCAR.
In a second step, synthetic routes for the three pharmacophores folate, c(RGD), and an RGD peptidomimetic were developed. The routes allow the modification of the pharmacophores with one of the warheads from the first step. CuAAC was chosen as a bioorthogonal approach to link pharmacophores and warheads.
In total, three different pharmacophores were modified with the 1,3-diketone motif of compound 21 leading to 112, 113 and 128. Activation of the T-cell signaling cascade was tested after binding of these hapten-like compounds to the cpCAR in the presence of suitable target structures. For 112, only a slight, non-significant, activation of the T-cell signaling cascade was observed, whereas for 113 and 128, a significant activation of the T-cell signaling cascade was observed.
The poor solubility of the folate compounds led to alternative strategies. Folic acid was exchanged by pteroic acid and the bifunctional, linear compounds were enlarged to trifunctional dendrimers.
Besides the reported regioisomer in 112, a second one, which was not reported to date, occurred by the cyclization of the linear RGD pentapeptide leading to 113.
After the reported synthesis of an RGD peptidomimetic analogous to 128 could not be reproduced, a new synthetic route was developed. It also consists of 17 steps, but reduces the number of linear steps from 13 to 10. Moreover, the developed route contains an asymmetric hydrogenation step and is, compared to the published one, more flexible by the use of the copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC). In addition, an unknown reaction was observed. Instead of the formation of a Schiff base in the reductive amination of 129, an insertion of propargylamine occurred forming 131. The reaction is almost quantitative and in high purity. After requiring no purification, it could be predestined for industrial purposes, such as the synthesis of N-functionalized 1,2-dihydroquinolines or as a building block with various orthogonal functional groups.
Besides the sulfonamide 16, the diketone (21, 27, 31) and lactam compounds (39 – 41), experiments on adapter molecules with further warheads were performed. In the synthesis of a proadapter approach, in which the warhead is formed only after the retro-aldol reaction catalyzed by the mAb, 6 of 10 steps were successfully performed. A newly developed synthesis to keto-sulfonyl and keto-sulfoxide compounds could not be completed but was performed on a small scale to the point of keto-sulfonyl and keto-sulfoxide. Furthermore, a universal synthesis route was designed to allow the introduction of the warhead at the end of the synthesis by acylation. Thus, after 5 shared steps, 3 of them in quantitative yield, different warheads may be introduced. Moreover, this also facilitates the purification and the analysis of the compounds by the absence of tautomerism or labile groups. However, the acylation experiments were not successful with either the acid cyanide or the Weinreb amide.
In summary, this thesis has proven that the 1,3-diketone motif is a suitable warhead for programming the cpCAR, which was developed by Hudecek et al. (unpublished data). The hapten-like compounds 112, 113 and 128 simultaneously bind to integrin ${\alpha}_v{\beta}_3$ and the cpCAR activating the T-cell signaling cascade. The modular synthesis strategy and the use of the bioorthogonal CuAAC allow straightforward access to these valuable immunotherapeutics but revealed the need for an additional purification step to remove copper ions.
Estrogens, namely 17β-estradiol (E2) and estrone (E1) are considered to play an important role in the initiation and promotion of breast cancer (summarized in Raftogianis et al., 2000), a malignancy responsible for around 500,000 deaths per year (summarized in Ghislain et al., 2016). Two major mechanisms have been postulated to explain the carcinogenic effects of estrogens: (1) the estrogen receptor-mediated stimulation of breast cell proliferation with a concomitant enhanced rate of mutations and (2) the metabolism of hydroxylated estrogens to quinone derivatives which can react with the DNA (Russo and Russo, 2006, summarized in Yager and Davidson, 2006). Nevertheless, as a detoxifying mechanism, E1, E2, and their hydroxylated and methoxylated metabolites are reversibly conjugated into sulfates and glucuronides devoid of biological activity (summarized in Guillemette et al., 2004). Yet, despite the key detoxifying function of these conjugates, the study of their circulating levels face some significant problems: (1) analysis by techniques such as radioimmunoassay lack specificity and accuracy and requires enzymatic/chemical hydrolysis before analysis, being unable to differentiate between sulfates and glucuronides (summarized in Stanczyk et al., 2007, summarized in Wang et al., 2016), (2) very little knowledge in healthy women, which has been identified as a barrier to advance in breast cancer research (summarized in Liu, 2000), and (3) far fewer studies in pre- than in postmenopausal women (summarized in Samavat and Kurzer, 2015). Therefore, to get more insights into the research of breast cancer etiology and prevention, the analysis of circulating levels of estrogens (including metabolites and conjugates) in women without breast cancer through reliable analytical techniques, is required.
Spectroscopic methods were established decades ago in a wide variety of fields. This also applies to the pharmaceutical field, although they initially were mostly used for identity testing or structure elucidation only. Technical developments, such as miniaturization (NMR benchtop devices), Fourier transformations (for NMR, MIR spectroscopy) or the combination with chemometric evaluation (e.g., in Process Analytical Technology, PAT), have further increased their importance and opened up new applications. The aim of this work was to investigate further new approaches and to find new applications for already established methods and to show their benefits.
By means of MIR, NIR and NMR data and their chemometric evaluation (principal component analysis, PCA; hierarchical cluster analysis, HCA; linear discriminant analysis, LDA), possibilities were presented to successfully determine the manufacturer or the pharmaceutical company of various paracetamol preparations. In the course of this, various similarities and correlations between the preparations of individual companies could also be identified. For this purpose, a suitable sample preparation was developed for each spectroscopic method, and suitable measurement parameters in order to obtain reproducible spectra for the chemometric evaluation were determined. Furthermore, the results of the two unsupervised methods (HCA, PCA) were compared with each other. The HCA was able to confirm those of the PCA for the very most part. Additionally, through these methods it was possible to characterize many of the preparations based on clusters formed by comparable tablet compositions.
In order to be able to measure unmortared, whole tablets using the NIR spectrometer, an attachment was developed and manufactured using 3D printing. Its functionality was demonstrated by measuring and analyzing the tablets of two different batches of nine paracetamol preparations. The batches were clearly distinguished on the basis of a PCA and a significant difference was also demonstrated by means of statistical tests.
For NMR spectroscopy, a method was developed to obtain optimized "fingerprint" spectra of drug formulations. For this purpose, a 1D DOSY measurement was elaborated, in which the signals of the active ingredient could be filtered out by the appropriate choice of measurement parameters. The chemometric evaluation can thus focus on the remaining signals of the excipients, on the basis of which the preparations of the same API can be distinguished. Especially in the case of formulations that consist largely of active ingredient, data pre processing of the spectra can thus be simplified and greater importance can be assigned to the originally very small excipient signals.
A quantitative 1H NMR method was developed for the comparison of a high field spectrometer (400 MHz) with a benchtop spectrometer (80 MHz) for two finished drugs. It was shown that it is possible to obtain comparable results with both instruments, but that the influence of the excipients on the signals and the lower resolution of the benchtop instrument must be taken into account. Therefore, it was not possible to obtain comparable results without further optimization of the method for one of the active ingredients.
In the investigation of various reactions between APIs and excipients using DOSY, its usefulness as a screening method in stability testing was demonstrated. For this purpose, three different APIs and excipients were stressed together and the reaction mixtures were subsequently measured using DOSY. Based on the translational diffusion coefficient, the reaction products could be identified and distinguished from the active ingredients and the excipients used. The importance of thoughtful processing could also be demonstrated. If all peak heights are selected when evaluating signals split by direct spin spin coupling, this allows the detection of hidden signals as long as not all signals have the same diffusion coefficient. The selective selection of individual peak heights in the case of split signals also enables the evaluation of signals that overlap slightly. However, the limitations of this method were also shown when two signals overlap too much and differ too little in their diffusion coefficients.
Hence, it has been successfully demonstrated in the various projects that the new chemometric approaches, as well as the new applications of already established methods, enable in depth findings and thus have a clear added value.
Analysis of Drug Impurities by Means of Chromatographic Methods: Targeted and Untargeted Approaches
(2022)
The presented works aimed on the analysis of new impurities in APIs and medicinal products. Different subtypes of LC were coupled to suitable detection methods, i.e. UV and various MS techniques, depending on the chemical natures of the analytes and the analytical task.
Unexpected impurities in medicinal products and APIs caused several scandals in the past, concomitant with fatalities or severe side effects in human and veterinary patients. The detection of nitrosamines in sartans led to the discovery of nitrosamines in various other drugs, of which the antibiotic rifampicin was analyzed in this work. An examination of the synthesis of rifampicin revealed a high potential for the formation of 4-methyl-1-nitrosopiperazine (MeNP). An LC-MS/HRMS method suitable for the quantification of MeNP was applied in the analysis of drugs collected from Brazil, Comoros, India, Nepal, and Tanzania, where a single dose of rifampicin is used in the post-exposure prophylaxis of leprosy. All batches were contaminated with MeNP, ranging from 0.7-5.1 ppm. However, application of rifampicin containing up to 5 ppm MeNP was recommended by the regulatory authorities for the post-exposure prophylaxis of leprosy.
In the 1990s the aminoglycoside antibiotic gentamicin attracted attention after causing fatalities in the USA, but the causative agent was never identified unequivocally. The related substance sisomicin was recognized as a lead impurity by the Holzgrabe lab at the University of Würzburg: sisomicin was accompanied by a variety of other impurities and batches containing sisomicin had caused the fatalities. In 2016, anaphylactic reactions were reported after application of gentamicin. A contamination of the medicinal products with histamine, an impurity of the raw material fish peptone used upon the production, could be identified as the cause of the adverse effects. Batches of gentamicin sulfate, which had been stored at the University of Würzburg since the earlier investigations, were analyzed regarding their contamination with histamine to determine whether the biogenic amine was responsible for the 1990s fatalities as well. Furthermore, a correlation with the lead impurity sisomicin was checked. Histamine could be detected in all analyzed batches, but at a lower level than in the batches responsible for the anaphylactic reactions. Moreover, there is no correlation of histamine with the lead impurity sisomicin. Hence, the causative agent for the 1990s fatalities was not histamine and remains unknown.
Another source of impurities is the reaction of APIs with excipients, e.g. the esterification of naproxen with PEG 600 in soft gel capsules. The influence of the formulation’s composition on this reaction was investigated by means of LC-UV. Therefore, the impurity naproxen-PEG-ester (NPEG) was synthesized and used for the development of a method suitable for the analysis of soft gel capsule formulations. Different formulations were stressed for 7 d at 60 °C and the relative amount of NPEG was determined. The formation of NPEG was influenced by the concentrations of water and lactic acid, the pH, and the drug load of the formulation, which can easily be explained by the chemistry behind esterification reactions.
Keeping in mind the huge variety of sources of impurities, it might be impossible to predict all potential impurities of a drug substance/product. Targeted and untargeted approaches were combined in the impurity profiling of bisoprolol fumarate. Eight versions of an LC-HRMS method were developed to enable the detection of a maximum number of impurities: an acidic and a basic buffered LC was coupled to MS detection applying ESI and APCI, both in positive in negative mode. MS and MS/MS data were acquired simultaneously by information dependent acquisition. In the targeted approach, potential impurities were derived from a reaction matrix based on the synthesis route of the API, while the untargeted part was based on general unknown comparative screening to identify additional signals. 18 and 17 impurities were detected in the targeted and the untargeted approach, respectively. The molecular formulae were assessed based on the exact mass and the isotope pattern. Theoretical fragment spectra generated by in silico fragmentation were matched with experimental data to estimate the plausibility of proposed/elucidated structures. Moreover, the detected impurities were quantified with respect to an internal standard.
Die Permeabilität von Substanzen über Biomembranen erfolgt auf Basis ihrer Größe und Lipophilie, wird jedoch auch zu einem großen Anteil vom aktiven Transport bestimmt. Speziell im menschlichen Verdauungstrakt ist dieser Transportmechanismus neben seinen essentiellen physiologischen Aufgaben, wie den Transport von Nährstoffen, an einer Resistenz gegen exogene Stoffe und Xenobiotika beteiligt, der die Aufnahme in den Organismus über einen Rücktransport in das Darmlumen limitiert. Dabei hat die membranständige Effluxpumpe p-Glykoprotein (p-GP) als ein Baustein dieses Schutzmechanismus auch einen großen Einfluss auf die Arzneimitteltherapie. Über eine Modulierung der Pharmakokinetik von Arzneistoffen beschränkt sie die Aufnahme von Medikamenten und senkt dadurch deren Bioverfügbarkeit. Es wird auch für pflanzliche Inhaltsstoffe aus der Gruppe der Polyphenole ein möglicher Einfluss auf dieses Transportprotein diskutiert. Diese Beeinflussung kann sich entweder in einer Induktion oder einer Inhibition des Proteins äußern, was positive wie negative Effekte haben kann. Eine Hemmung des Transportproteins führt zu einer erhöhten Aufnahme einiger Arzneistoffe, die mit einer erhöhten Bioverfügbarkeit und einer potentiellen Dosissenkung einhergeht. Induziert man p-GP dagegen, so wird es beispielsweise ermöglicht, potentiell schädliche Xenobiotika noch intensiver auszuscheiden und nachteilige Plasmaspiegel zu verhindern. Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit sollte daher der Einfluss ausgewählter Polyphenole auf die Funktionalität und die Genexpression im CaCo-II-Zellkulturmodell näher untersucht, sowie vorab charakteristische Eigenschaften der pflanzlichen Inhaltsstoffe - Taxifolin, Silibinin, M1, Urolithin A, Urolithin B, Urolithin C, Isourolithin A, racemisches Hydnocarpin D, (+)-Hydnocarpin D, (-)-Hydnocarpin D - vergleichend bestimmt werden. Diese stoffspezifischen Charakteristika umfassten die Zytotoxizität, die Stabilität und die antioxidative Kapazität. Vor allem die Zytotoxizität und die Stabilität sind essentielle Parameter für aussagekräftige Resultate. Die Substanzen waren in der eingesetzten Konzentration von 50 µM mehrheitlich, mit Ausnahme des Hydnocarpins D, nicht-toxisch innerhalb der relevanten Versuchszeiträume, 4 h und 24 h, und den verwendeten Kulturmedien, DMEM-Pest und HBSS. Vor allem im Hinblick auf die Genexpressionsversuche war es die Basis für valide Ergebnisse, den Zeitraum bis 24 h als nicht-toxisch sicherstellen zu können. Hinsichtlich der Stabilität waren nur Taxifolin (27 % Restkonzentration) und der M1 (0 % Restkonzentration) nach 24 h in Zellkulturmedium kritisch. Auf Basis ihrer antioxidativen Kapazität werden pflanzlichen Inhaltsstoffen eine Reihe von gesundheitsförderlichen Merkmalen nachgesagt, weswegen dieser Aspekt für die Testsubstanzen zusätzlich vergleichend evaluiert wurde. Der Eintritt von Pathogenen kann Zusammenfassung 377 zum Beispiel durch oxidative Schädigung des Darmepithels erleichtert werden, was zusätzlich zu einem Effekt auf p-GP durch die Polyphenole unter Umständen positiv beeinflusst werden kann. Taxifolin, der M1 sowie die Urolithine A und C konnten so als antioxidativ aktive Stoffe erstmals vergleichend analysiert und die Resultate sinnvoll zu bestehenden Daten in Relation gesetzt werden. Sie konnten nach antioxidativer Potenz in der Reihenfolge Urolithin C > M1 > Taxifolin > Urolithin A geordnet werden. Zur Analyse des Einflusses der ausgewählten Polyphenole auf die Funktionalität von p-GP sollten Transportversuche über einen CaCo-II-Monolayer mit Rhodamin 123 als Markersubstanz durchgeführt werden. Diese Untersuchungen benötigen typischerweise eine vorbereitende Kulturzeit der Zellen von insgesamt drei Wochen, sodass sich eine Verkürzung dieser Zeitspanne aus Zeitersparnis- und Kostengründen positiv auf den Durchsatz der Versuche auswirken würde. In einem umfassenden Ansatz mit kombinierter Bestimmung der Qualifizierung der Zellschichten im Hinblick auf Qualität des Monolayers (TEER-Messung, Lucifer-Yellow-Transportrate, Fluoreszenzfärbung der Tight-junctions) sowie der Funktionalität und Expression von p-GP gelang der Nachweis, dass 14 Tage hinreichend und sinnvoll waren. Zentraler Bestandteil war in der vorliegenden Arbeit die Identifizierung der Effekte der Urolithine auf sowohl p-GP direkt, als auch auf die Genexpression dieses Transportproteins. Diese Polyphenole werden im menschlichen Verdauungstrakt über einen bakteriellen Metabolismus aus Ellagtanninen und Ellagsäure hergestellt und sind aufgrund ihrer vielfältigen gesundheitsförderlichen Charakteristiken in der Forschung von steigendem Interesse. Hierfür konnten nach unserem Kenntnisstand mit den gewählten Versuchsansätzen neue Erkenntnisse gewonnen werden. In den Transportversuchen mit Rhodamin 123 als Modellsubstrat von p-GP konnten die Urolithine den p-GP-vermittelten Transport positiv beeinflussen. Die Urolithine B (Papp-Ratio 1,98), C (Papp-Ratio 2,15) und das Isourolithin A (Papp-Ratio 1,63) steigerten den Rhodamintransport signifikant und lediglich für Urolithin A (Papp-Ratio 1,45) konnte keine Signifikanz belegt werden. Der Einfluss der Urolithine lag jeweils im Bereich des Modellinduktors Dexamethason. Ebenso konnte eine positive Modulierung der Genexpression nach 24 h detektiert werden. Die Hochregulierungen durch die Urolithine A (zwei- bis dreifach), B (1,4-fach) und C (1,8-fach) waren konsistent und statistisch signifikant. Urolithin A konnte hierbei als potentester Induktor charakterisiert werden, wohingegen sein Isomer Isourolithin A keinerlei signifikante Beeinflussung der Expression zeigte. In diesen Inkubationsversuchen wurde die Eigenschaft zur Erhöhung der Genexpression über den Einfluss auf den p-GP-vermittelten Rhodamintransport bestätigt. Die Urolithine A, B, C und Isourolithin A konnten nach einer Vorinkubation über 24 h und 48 h auch den Transport von Rhodamin 123 nochmals signifikanter zu den klassischen E Zusammenfassung 378 Transportversuchen ohne Vorinkubation steigern. Relevanz hierfür hatte der erste Zeitraum über 24 h, da hier ein deutlicher Anstieg der Rhodamintransportrate zu erkennen war. Nach 48 h stieg der Rhodamintransport nur noch geringfügig an oder ging sogar leicht zurück (Urolithin B). Hinsichtlich der Genexpression konnte nach 48 h nur noch Urolithin C p-GP signifikant hochregulieren, allerdings sind diese Erkenntnisse auf Basis der Zytotoxizität der Substanzen über diesen Zeitraum kritisch zu betrachten. In der Analyse des Effektes der weiteren Polyphenole auf die Genexpression von p-GP konnten für die meisten Stoffe nur zufällige Zusammenhänge hinsichtlich Hoch- und Herunterregulierung bestimmt werden. In den Transportversuchen konnte jedoch (+)-Hydnocarpin (Papp-Ratio 0,48) den Transport in gleichem Ausmaß wie der Modellinhibitor Verapamil (Papp-Ratio 0,48) hemmen. Durch Modifizierung des Versuchsmediums zur Annäherung an physiologischeren Bedingungen (Gallensäuren, pH 6) konnte für manche Substanzen ein deutlich verändertes Verhalten beobachtet werden. Die Rhodamintransportrate nahm unter Einfluss von Urolithin B, Isourolithin A und dem M1 signifikant nun ab und bei Urolithin C signifikant zu. Dies legt nahe, dass mit dem klassischen Transportversuchsmodell lediglich Tendenzen für die Substanzen bestimmt werden können. Weitere Untersuchungen näher an der Physiologie des Verdauungstraktes sind nötig, um ein genaueres Bild des Stoffeinflusses zu gewinnen. Die Frage nach zeitlichem Einsetzen beziehungsweise der Kontinuität des Effektes auf p� GP konnte mit den Urolithinen A, B und C sowie Dexamethason geklärt werden. Eine Substanzexposition von lediglich fünf Minuten war nicht ausreichend, um in den nachfolgenden zwei Stunden einen Effekt zu beobachten. Dies legt eine Reversibilität der zugrundeliegenden Mechanismen und eine notwendige dauerhafte Anwesenheit der Substanzen über die Versuchszeit nahe. Neben Rhodamin 123 wurden noch Transportversuche mit dem Fluorchinolonantibiotikum Ciprofloxacin als Modellsubstanz durchgeführt, da es aufgrund dessen Substratcharakters für p-GP von therapeutischer Relevanz sein kann, wenn das Transportverhalten durch Polyphenole beeinflusst wird. Im Gegensatz zu Rhodamin 123 wurde der Transport von Ciprofloxacin durch die vier Urolithine verringert, was für diese Metabolismusprodukte eine zusätzliche Wirkung auf weitere Transportproteine nahelegt, weil Ciprofloxacin unter anderem auch über BRCP transportiert wird. Mittels des bakteriellen Endotoxins LPS konnte eine Schädigung des CaCo-II-Monolayers erzeugt werden, welche sich über erniedrigte TEER-Werte und einen erhöhten Rhodamintransport nachweisen ließ. Eine Vorinkubation der vier Urolithine war nicht in der Lage, diese Schädigung abzumildern, jedoch nicht komplett zu verhindern. Die TEER- Zusammenfassung 379 Werte konnten zwar wieder etwas gesteigert werden, jedoch maskierte die starke Stimulation dieser Pflanzenstoffe auf p-GP und den damit verbundenen Transport von Rhodamin 123 mögliche positive Effekte auf diese oxidative Stresssituation. Zusammenfassend war es mit der vorliegenden Arbeit erstmals durch systematische vergleichende Untersuchung und Kombination von Charakterisierungsansätzen möglich, eine deutliche Beeinflussung der Genexpression und Funktionalität des p-Glykoproteins durch vor allem die Urolithine aufzuzeigen, was eine Relevanz sowohl des Mikrobioms als auch der Ernährung in der Arzneimitteltherapie nahelegt. Zudem gelang es den klassischen Transportassay durch Verkürzung um eine Woche zu verbessern.
The present thesis concerns the molecular imaging of opioid receptors and human butyrylcholinesterase with the aid of tailored probes, which are suitable for the respective applied imaging techniques. The first part focusses on imaging of opioid receptors with selective probes using total internal reflection- and single molecule fluorescence microscopy. Design and synthesis of the ligands are presented and their pharmacological characterization and application in microscopy experiments are shown. The second part of this thesis focused on the development of 18F-labeled, selective radiotracers for imaging of butyrylcholinesterase via positron emission tomography. The design and synthesis of each a reversible and pseudoirreversible 18F-labeled tracer are presented. After evaluation of the binding properties of each tracer, their initial application in ex vivo autoradiography- and preliminary in vivo microPET studies is described and analyzed.
Chronic inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, are associated with the homeostatic imbalance of one of several physiological systems combined with the lack of spontaneous remission, which causes the disease to persevere throughout patients’ lives. The inflammatory response relies mainly on tissue-resident, pro-inflammatory M1 type macrophages and, consequently, a chance for therapeutic intervention lies in driving macrophage polarization towards the anti-inflammatory M2 phenotype. Therefore, anti-inflammatory cytokines that promote M2 polarization, including interleukin-4 (IL4), have promising therapeutic potential. Unfortunately, their systemic use is hampered by a short serum half-life and dose-limiting toxicity. On the way towards cytokine therapies with superior safety and efficacy, this thesis is focused on designing bioresponsive delivery systems for the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL4.
Chapter 1 describes how anti-inflammatory cytokines are tightly regulated in chronic, systemic inflammation as in rheumatoid arthritis but also in acute, local inflammation as in myocardial infarction. Both diseases show a characteristic progression during which anti-inflammatory cytokine delivery is of variable benefit. A conventional, passive drug delivery system is unlikely to release the cytokines such that the delivery matches the dynamic course of the (patho-)physiological progress. This chapter presents a blueprint for active drug delivery systems equipped with a 24/7 inflammation detector that continuously senses for matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) as surrogate markers of the disease progress and responds by releasing cytokines into the affected tissues at the right time and place. Because they are silent during phases of low disease activity, bioresponsive depots could be used to treat patients in asymptomatic states, as a preventive measure. The drug delivery system only gets activated during flares of inflammation, which are then immediately suppressed by the released cytokine drug and could prevent the steady damage of subclinical chronic inflammation, and therefore reduce hospitalization rates.
In a first proof of concept study on controlled cytokine delivery (chapter 2), we developed IL4-decorated particles aiming at sustained and localized cytokine activity. Genetic code expansion was deployed to generate muteins with the IL4’s lysine 42 replaced by two different unnatural amino acids bearing a side chain suitable for click chemistry modification. The new IL4 muteins were thoroughly characterized to ensure proper folding and full bioactivity. Both muteins showed cell-stimulating ability and binding affinity to IL4 receptor alpha similar to those of wild type IL4. Copper-catalyzed (CuAAC) and strain-promoted (SPAAC) azide–alkyne cycloadditions were used to site-selectively anchor IL4 to agarose particles. These particles had sustained IL4 activity, as demonstrated by the induction of TF-1 cell proliferation and anti-inflammatory M2 polarization of M-CSF-generated human macrophages. This approach of site-directed IL4 anchoring on particles demonstrates that cytokine-functionalized particles can provide sustained and spatially controlled immune-modulating stimuli.
The idea of a 24/7 sensing, MMP driven cytokine delivery system, as described in the introductory chapter, was applied in chapter 3. There, we simulated the natural process of cytokine storage in the extracellular matrix (ECM) by using an injectable solution of IL4 for depot formation by enzyme-catalyzed covalent attachment to ECM components such as fibronectin. The immobilized construct is meant to be cleaved from the ECM by matrix-metalloproteinases (MMPs) which are upregulated during flares of inflammation. These two functionalities are facilitated by a peptide containing two sequences: a protease-sensitive peptide linker (PSL) for MMP cleavage and a sequence for covalent attachment by activated human transglutaminase FXIIIa (TGase) included in the injection mix for co-administration. This peptide was site-selectively conjugated to the unnatural amino acid at IL4 position 42 allowing to preserve wild type bioactivity of IL4. In vitro experiments confirmed the anticipated MMP response towards the PSL and TGase-mediated construct attachment to fibronectin of the ECM. Furthermore, the IL4-peptide conjugates were able to reduce inflammation and protect non-load bearing cartilage along with the anterior cruciate ligament from degradation in an osteoarthritis model in rabbits. This represents the first step towards a minimally invasive treatment option using bioresponsive cytokine depots with potential clinical value for inflammatory conditions.
One of the challenges with this approach was the production of the cytokine conjugate, with incorporation of the unnatural amino acid into IL4 being the main bottleneck. Therefore, in chapter 4, we designed a simplified version of this depot system by genetically fusing the bifunctional peptide via a flexible peptide spacer to murine IL4. While human IL4 loses its activity upon C-terminal elongation, murine IL4 is not affected by this modification. The produced murine IL4 fusion protein could be effectively bound to in vitro grown extracellular matrix in presence of TGase. Moreover, the protease-sensitive linker was selectively recognized and cleaved by MMPs, liberating intact and active IL4, although at a slower rate than expected. Murine IL4 offers the advantage to evaluate the bioresponsive cytokine depot in many available mouse models, which was so far not possible with human IL4 due to species selectivity.
For murine IL4, the approach was further extended to systemic delivery in chapter 5. To increase the half-life and specifically target disease sites, we engineered a murine IL4 variant conjugated with a folate-bearing PEG chain for targeting of activated macrophages. The bioactive IL4 conjugate had a high serum stability and the PEGylation increased the half-life to 4 h in vivo. Surprisingly, the folate moiety did not improve targeting in an antigen-induced arthritis (AIA) mouse model. IL4-PEG performed better in targeting the inflamed joint, while IL4-PEG-folate showed stronger accumulation in the liver. Fortunately, the modular nature of the IL4 conjugate facilitates convenient adaption of PEG chain length and the targeting moiety to further improve the half-life and localization of the cytokine.
In summary, this thesis describes a platform technology for the controlled release of cytokines in response to inflammation. By restricting the release of the therapeutic to the site of inflammation, the benefit-risk ratio of this potent class of biologics can be positively influenced. Future research will help to deepen our understanding of how to perfectly combine cytokine, protease-sensitive linker and immobilization tag or targeting moiety to tackle different diseases.
The past decades have witnessed the development of new pharmaceutical compounds that modulate receptor function by targeting allosteric sites. Allosteric sites are, by definition, domains topographically distinct from the orthosteric binding pocket where the natural ligand binds. Exploring the possibilities of linking orthosteric and allosteric pharmacophores in one compound to yield ‘bitopic’ compounds is a strategy derived from the “message-address” concept by Schwyzer , first applied to GPCRs by Portoghese et al. This concept explicitly underlines the orthosteric/allosteric combination, in opposite to the more general umbrella term bivalent. The broad possibilities of bitopic ligands in the pharmaceutical field are under continuous study. Bitopic compounds are promising pharmaceutical tools for taking advantage of the allosteric binding to achieve subtype selectivity while preserving high affinity at the receptor. The development of bitopic ligands, based on the idea of combining high affinity (via orthosteric sites) with high selectivity (via allosteric sites), have led to the development of highly selective bivalent ligands for GPCRs , such as for the opioid receptors , muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs), serotonin receptors, cannabinoid receptors, and gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptors. This concept has even been extended to other receptors, for examples nicotinic receptors and other proteins, such as acetylcholinesterases and the tyrosine kinase receptors TrkA and TrkC. The reasons to pursue a bitopic ligand approach are various. An improved affinity for the target GPCR and/or an improved selectivity either at the level of receptor subtype, or at the level of signaling pathway. Another advantage of bitopic ligands over purely allosteric ligands is that the former rely on the appropriate presence of endogenous agonist tone to mediate their effects, whereas a bitopic ligand would engage the orthosteric site irrespective of the presence or absence of endogenous tone. By way of introduction to the hybrid approach, a review of the concept of hybrids compounds targeting the cholinergic system is presented in section A of this thesis. Recent updates in hybrid molecule design as a strategy for selectively addressing multiple target proteins involved in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is here reported . This represents the potential and the growing interest in hybrid compound as pharmacological tools to achieve receptor subtype selectivity and/or, to study the overall functional activity of the receptor. Until now, muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs) have proved to be a particularly fruitful receptor model for the development and characterization of bitopic ligands. In this thesis, several examples of new muscarinic bitopic approach are reported in the results section. A study of bipharmacophoric ligands composed of the muscarinic positive allosteric modulators (BQCAderived compounds) linked with chain of various lengths to different orthosteric building blocks is reported in the result part 1. Synthesis and examination of the potential pharmacological characteristic of Oxotremorine-BQCAd compounds and Xanomeline-BQCAd hybrid derivatives are described in results parts 2 and 4, respectively. Moreover, the bitopic concept has even been extended to other proteins, such as acetylcholinesterase. In the result part 5 an overview of the new Tacrine-Xanomeline hybrids aiming to improve the inhibitory potency of the acetylcholinesterase and simultaneously to increase the cholinergic tone, via the xanomelinic portion acting on the M1 receptor is given. A new trivalent approach is presented for the first time to deepen the study of the M1 muscarinic receptor in the result part 6. Moreover, the synthesis of a new series of iperoxo-derived alkane, bis(ammonio)alkane-type and rigidified chain ligands is given in the result part 7 together with some prospects for further research.
To diagnose diseases correctly requires not only trained and skilled personnel, but also cost-intensive and complex equipment. Rapid tests can help with the initial evaluation, but result generation can also take up to several hours, depending on the test system. At this point, novel bioresponsive diagnostic systems are used, responding to the disease related shift of biological processes. They monitor changes in the biological environment and can react to them e.g. with the release of substances. This can be used in drug delivery formulations but can also help to diagnose diseases occurring in the oral cavity and inform patients of their state of health. The tongue is herein used as a 24/7 available detector.
In section I of this work, the foundation for the development of these diagnostic systems was laid. A suitable flavoring agent was found, which is stable, can be coupled to the N-terminus of peptides and has a strongly conceivable taste. For the optimization of the protease-sensitive linker (PSL), an analytical system was established (PICS assay), which determines protease-specific cleavable amino acid sequences. In order to replace the PMMA particles previously required, an acetyl protecting group was introduced N-terminally as it protects peptides and proteins in the human body from degradation by human aminopeptidase. The new synthesized flavor was examined with a NIH cell line for cytotoxicity and with an electronic tongue setup for its bitterness.
Section II deals with the structure of a system which detects severe inflammations in the oral cavity, e.g. PA. The established PICS assay was used to confirm the previously used PSL sequence in its application. Using solid phase peptide synthesis, 3 linkers were synthesized which respond to the elevated MMP concentrations present in inflammation. The resulting peptides were acetylated and coupled with HATU/DIPEA to the modified denatonium. Cutting experiments with MMPs over different concentration and time ranges confirmed the response of the diagnostic sensor to these enzymes. The obtained construct was examined for cell toxicity by WST assay. The masked bitterness of the sensors was confirmed by an electronic tongue setup.
To address non-human proteases (and thereby infections), section III focuses on the establishment of detection system of a cysteine protease SpeB expressed by Streptococcus pyogenes. The in-house expression of SpeB using E. coli cells was established for this purpose. An analysis of the SpeB cleavage sites was performed using a PICS assay setup. Four constructs with different PSL were synthesized analogous to section II. Cleavage experiments with the expressed and purified SpeB showed a response of two constructs to the protease. In addition, a system was established to quantify the concentration of SpeB in human saliva using western blot technique with subsequent quantification.
In section IV a compound was synthesized which can now be coupled to a flavor. The final coupled construct is able to detect present NA activity specifically from influenza A and B. The market for existing influenza diagnostics was explored to determine the need for such a system. A neuraminic acid was modified in positions 4 and 7 and protected in such a way that subsequent coupling via the hydroxy-group in position 2 was selectively possible.
In summary, this results in a diagnostic platform that can be used anywhere, by anyone and at any time. This represents a new dimension in the rapid diagnosis of inflammations and bacterial or viral infections.
For the quality assurance of substances for pharmaceutical use, a variety of analytical techniques are available to address specific analytical problems. In this field of application, liquid chromatography (LC) stands out as the gold standard in the pharmaceutical industry. Various detectors can be employed, which are e.g. based on UV/Vis spectroscopy for the examination of molecules with a chromophore, or mass spectrometry (MS) for structural elucidation of analytes. For the separation of enantiomers, the use of capillary electrophoresis (CE) may be more favorable due to the high separation efficiency and easy-to-use and comparatively inexpensive chiral selectors, in contrast to chiral columns for LC, which are usually very expensive and limited to a restricted number of analytes. For structure elucidation in impurity profiling, one- and multidimensional 1H NMR spectroscopy is a valuable tool as long as the analyte molecule has got nuclei that can be detected, which applies for the magnitude of organic pharmaceutical substances.
For the evaluation of the amount of mineral oil aromatic hydrocarbons (MOAH) in various paraffin samples from different suppliers, a straightforward method based on 1H NMR spectroscopy was elaborated. The MOAH/MOSH ratio was used to indicate the amount of MOAH of paraffins and to evaluate the extent of refining. In addition, a representative paraffin sample was measured without sample solvent at high temperatures (about 340 K) to avoid the interfering residual solvent signals in the spectral regions of interest. The results of both methods were in good accordance.
Moreover, the 1H NMR results were complemented with the UV measurements from the purity testing of paraffins according to the DAB 8. Correlations of the NMR and UV spectroscopic data indicated a linear relationship of both methods for the determination of MOAH in paraffins.
Finally, the 1H NMR data was evaluated by principal component analysis (PCA) to explore differences within the paraffin samples and the spectral regions in the 1H NMR spectrum which are responsible for the formation of groups. It could be found that most variation is due to the MOSH of the paraffins. The PCA model was capable of differentiating between soft, liquid and solid paraffins on the one hand and between natural and synthetic liquid paraffins on the other hand.
The impurity profiling of L-ascorbic acid 2-phosphate magnesium (A2PMg) was performed by means of one- and two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy. Several ethylated impurities could be detected, which were likely to be formed during synthesis of A2PMg. The structures of two of the ethylated impurities were identified as ascorbic acid 2-phosphate ethyl ester and ethanol, (residual solvent from synthesis). NMR spectroscopic studies of the fractions obtained from preparative HPLC of A2PMg revealed two additional impurities, which were identified as phosphorylated derivatives of ascorbic acid, ascorbic acid 3,5-phosphate and ascorbic acid 5-phosphate.
Solid state mechanochemistry as an alternative approach for stress testing was applied on the drug substances S-Ibuprofen (Ibu) and Clopidogrel (CLP) using a ball mill, in order to study their degradation profile:
First, the isomerization of S-Ibu was investigated, which was stressed in the solid state applying several milling frequencies and durations under basic, acidic and neutral conditions. For the separation of Ibu enantiomers, a chiral CE method was developed and validated according to ICH Q2(R1). It was found that S-Ibu is overall very stable to isomerization; it shows minor conversion into the R-enantiomer under basic environment applying long milling times and high frequencies.
Last, the degradation profile of clopidogrel hydrogen sulfate (CLP) was investigated, which was stressed in the solid state under various oxidative conditions. An already existing HPLC-UV method was adjusted to sufficiently separate the degradation products, which were characterized by means of UV and MS/(MS) detection. Most of the degradation products identified were already reported to result from conventional CLP stress tests. The degradation profile of CLP was mainly influenced by the material of the milling jar and the type of catalyst used.
The charged aerosol detector (CAD) is an aerosol-based detector employed in liquid chromatography which has become established in the field of pharmaceutical analysis due to its outstanding performance characteristics, e.g. the almost uniform response for nonvolatile analytes. Owing to its principle of detection, the response of the CAD depends on the volatility of a compound and is inherently nonlinear. However, the newly implemented instrumental settings evaporation temperature and power function value (PFV) are valuable tools to overcome some of these drawbacks and can even enhance the detector’s capabilities when adjusted properly.
This thesis aimed to evaluate the impact of the new instrumental settings on the CAD performance. Additionally, the influence of modern separation techniques for small polar compounds on the CAD was assessed and the applicability of hyphenated UV-CAD techniques explored. The optimization strategies derived from the evaluation procedures and the conjunction of the instrumental and chromatographic techniques investigated were utilized for the challenging impurity profiling of amino acids and amino acid-like drugs.
The results of the method validation procedures confirmed the broad applicability of the CAD in the pharmaceutical analysis of nonvolatile compounds, supported by satisfactory sensitivity and reproducibility for meeting the regulatory requirements with respect to the ICH guidelines Q2(R1) and Q3A(R2). The limits of applicability include the analysis of semivolatile compounds, and the method transfer between current and legacy CAD models. Further advances in the definition and standardization of allowed ranges for the instrumental settings and the establishment of general optimization procedures in the method development could lead to a more widespread use of the detection technique in compendial methods.
Cell culture models are helpful tools to study inflammatory diseases, like rheumatoid arthritis (RA), osteoarthritis (OA), arteriosclerosis or asthma, which are linked to increased matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) activity. Such cell culture models often focus on the secretion of cytokines and growth factors or the direct effects of disease on tissue destruction. Even though the crucial role of MMPs in inflammatory diseases is known, the results of MMP studies are contradictious and the use of MMPs as biomarkers is inconsistent. MMPs play an important role in disease pathology, as they are involved in elastin degradation in the walls of alveoli in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), tumor angiogenesis and metastasis and in cartilage and bone degradation in arthropathies. In RA and OA MMPs are secreted by osteocytes, synoviocytes, and by infiltrating immune cells in response to the increased concentration of inflammatory mediators, like growth factors and cytokines. MMPs are zinc and calcium-dependent proteinases and play an important role in physiological and pathological extracellular matrix (ECM) turn over. Their substrate specificity gives them the ability to degrade all major ECM components, like aggrecan, elastin, gelatin, fibronectin and all types of collagen even the triple helix of collagen monomers. The ECM consists of two large three-dimensional cross-linked macromolecule classes: one are fibrous proteins, like collagen and elastin fibers that are responsible for ECM’s structure, tensile strength, resiliency, reversible extensibility, and deformability and the second class is comprised of proteoglycans composed of glycosaminoglycan (GAG) chains covalently attached to protein cores that are multifunctionally involved in signaling pathways and cell interactions. ECM is present within all tissues and organs and changes in ECM structure contribute to pathogenesis, e.g. wounded and fibrotic tissue, COPD or tumours.
This thesis primarily focuses on the development of a diagnostic peptide system, that enables to gain information on MMP activity from ECM by deploying the isobaric mass encoding strategy. The core element of the developed system is an isotopically labelled peptide sequence (mass tag), that is released in response to elevated levels of MMPs and allows multiplexed detection in tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). The mass reporters possess a modular structure with different functionalities. C-terminal either a transglutaminase (TG) recognition sequence or a high molecular weight polyethylene glycol (PEG) moiety was attached to immobilize the mass reporters covalently or physically at the injection site. The following matrix metalloproteinase substrate sequence (MSS) is incorporated in two different versions with different sensitivity to MMPs. The MSS were applied in pairs for relative quantification consisting of the cleavable version synthesized with natural L-amino acids and the non-cleavable D-amino acid variant. The mass tag was synthesized with isotopically labelled amino acids and is separated from the MSS by a UV light-sensitive molecule. N-terminal the mass tag is followed by a tobacco etch virus protease (TEV) sensitive sequence, that is responsible to separate the mass tag from the affinity tag, which was either the Strep-tag II sequence or biotin and were added for purification purposes.
Chapter 1 presents a step-by-step protocol on how to design a mass tag family allowing for multiplexed analysis by LC-MS/MS. The multiplexing is achieved by developing an isobar mass tag family with four family members, which are chromatographically indistinguishable, but due to the mass encoding principles they fragment in distinct y-type ions with a mass difference of 1 or 2 Da each in MS2. Furthermore, it is explained how to covalently attach the mass reporter peptides onto ECM by the activated calcium-catalyzed blood coagulation transglutaminase factor XIII (FXIIIa). The lysine of mass reporter’s TG sequence (D-domain of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I)) and a glutamine in fibronectin are covalently crosslinked by FXIIIa and build an isopeptide bond. Elevated levels of MMP release the mass reporters from ECM by recognizing the inter-positioned MSS.
The designed mass reporters were able to monitor enzyme activity in an in vitro setting with cell-derived ECM, which was shown in Chapter 2. The modular structured mass reporters were investigated in a proof of concept study. First, the different modules were characterized in terms of their MMP responsiveness and their sensitivity to TEV protease and UV light. Then the FXIIIa-mediated coupling reaction was detailed and the successful coupling on ECM was visualized by an immunosorbent assay or confocal laser scanning microscopy. Finally, the immobilized mass reporters on ECM were incubated with MMP-9 to investigate their multiplexing ability of MMP activity. The cleaved mass reporter fragments were purified in three steps and mass tags were analyzed as mix of all four in LC-MS/MS.
Chapter 3 describes the change from an immobilizing system as seen in chapter 1 and 2 to a soluble enzyme activity monitoring system that was applied in an osteoarthritic mouse model. Instead of the immobilizing TG sequence the C-terminal MMS was extended with two amino acids where one holds an azide moiety to perform a strain-promoted azide-alkyne cycloaddition to a high molecular weight dibenzocyclooctyne-polyethylene glycol (DBCO-PEG), which was chosen to retain the mass reporters at the injection site. Furthermore, the N-terminal affinity tag was extended with a 2.5 kDa PEG chain to increase the half-life of the mass reporter peptides after MMP release. The systems biocompatibility was proved but its enzyme monitoring ability in an in vivo setting could not be analyzed as samples degraded during shipping resulting from the Chinese customs blocking transport to Germany.
In summary the diagnostic peptide system was developed in two variants. The immobilized version one from chapter 1 and 2 was designed to be covalently attached to ECM by the transglutaminase-mediated cross-linking reaction. In an in vitro setting the functionality of the mass reporter system for the detection of MMP activity was successfully verified. The second variant comprises of a soluble mass reporter system that was tested in an OA mouse model and showed biocompatibility. With these two designed systems this thesis provides a flexible platform based on multiplexed analysis with mass-encoded peptides to characterize cell culture models regarding their MMP activity, to deploy cell-derived ECM as endogenous depot scaffold and to develop a mass tag family that enables simultaneous detection of at least four mass tags.
Antimikrobielle Resistenzen stellen eine weltweite Herausforderung dar und sind mit einer hohen Morbidität und Mortalität verbunden. Die Letalitätsrate durch multiresistente Keime steigt stetig an, weshalb die WHO im Jahr 2017 eine Prioritätenliste resistenter Keime erstellte, die die Entwicklung neuer Antibiotika vorantreiben soll. Diese umfasst vornehmlich
gramnegative Bakterien, da diese aufgrund ihres Zellaufbaus sowie diverser Resistenzmechanismen besonders widerstandsfähig gegenüber dem Angriff vieler Antibiotika sind. Einige grampositive Keime (z.B. S. aureus) stehen ebenfalls auf dieser Liste und stellen eine große Herausforderung für die Medizin dar. Infolgedessen ist die Entwicklung neuer Antiinfektiva mit neuen Angriffspunkten gegen resistente Pathogene zwingend nötig, um mit bisherigen Resistenzen umgehen zu können.
Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung und Synthese von kovalent (reversibel) bindenden Inhibitoren der Enoyl-ACP-Reduktase FabI (Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli) und der Thiolase FadA5 (Mycobacterium tuberculosis). Beide Enzyme sind essenziell für das Überleben des jeweiligen Bakteriums.
FabI ist ein wichtiges und geschwindigkeitsbestimmendes Schlüsselenzym der Fettsäuresynthese Typ II diverser Bakterien. Hierbei werden wichtige Phospholipide hergestellt, die für den Aufbau der Zellmembran nötig sind. Schiebel et al. ist es gelungen, einen potenten Inhibitor für den Erreger S. aureus sowie E. coli zu entwickeln und zu charakterisieren. Ausgehend von dieser Verbindung wurde eine Substanzbibliothek mit verschiedenen „warheads“ hergestellt. Hierbei wurde die Verknüpfung zwischen dem Pyridon-Grundgerüst und der elektrophilen Gruppe sowie die über den Ether verknüpften aromatischen Ringsysteme variiert. Diese Verbindungen wurden hinsichtlich ihrer inhibitorischen Aktivität am jeweiligen Enzym getestet. Anschließend wurde von Verbindung 32 und 33, die jeweils eine gute Inhibition des Enzyms aufweisen, der IC50-Wert gemessen. Beide Verbindungen weisen eine 50-prozentige Reduktion der Enzymaktivität im mittleren nanomolaren Bereich auf. Zusätzlich wurde Verbindung 32 in einem sogenannten „jump-dilution“-Assay auf kovalente Inhibition getestet. Durch dieses Experiment konnte eine kovalente Inhibition des Enzyms ausgeschlossen werden.
Die Reaktivität der eingesetzten „warheads“ wurde gegenüber einem Tripeptid mittels eines LC/MS-Iontrap-Systems bestimmt. Die untersuchten Verbindungen zeigten keine signifikante Reaktion mit der im Tripeptid eingebauten nukleophilen Aminosäure Tyrosin, deren Nukleophilie bei dem pH-Wert des Tests (pH = 8.2 und 10.8) nicht hoch genug ist.
Um einen Einblick in den Bindemodus der Verbindungen zu erhalten, wurden ferner Kristallisationsversuche durchgeführt. Die erhaltenen Kristallstrukturen zeigen, dass die Verbindungen mit dem gewünschten Bindemodus am Zielenzym binden, aber eine kovalente Modifizierung des Tyrosins146 durch die eingesetzten „warheads“ aufgrund der großen Entfernung (6 Å zwischen elektrophiler Gruppe und Tyrosin146), unwahrscheinlich ist.
Zusätzlich wurden die physikochemischen Eigenschaften (Stabilität, Wasserlöslichkeit und logP) der Verbindung 32 sowie Verbindung 33 charakterisiert.
M. tuberculosis ist der Erreger der global verbreiteten Infektionskrankheit Tuberkulose (TB), die zu den zehn häufigsten Todesursachen weltweit gehört. Das Bakterium kann das im menschlichen Körper vorkommende Cholesterol metabolisieren und nutzt dessen Abbauprodukte als wichtige Kohlenstoffquelle. Die Thiolase FadA5 ist bei diesem Abbau ein wichtiges Enzym und konnte als potenzielles innovatives Target für neue Antibiotika definiert werden.
Durch Dockingstudien konnten zwei potenzielle Leitstrukturen als Inhibitoren der Thiolase FadA5 identifiziert werden. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurden die vorgeschlagenen Strukturen mit dem gewünschten „warhead“ synthetisiert und hinsichtlich ihrer inhibitorischen Aktivität gegenüber dem Enzym untersucht. Die Zielverbindungen zeigen keine signifikante Hemmung sowie kovalente Bindung über die eingesetzten „warheads“ an die Thiolase FadA5.
Bestimmung der Plasmaproteinbindung von niedrig affinen Liganden am Beispiel der Ephedra-Alkaloide
(2021)
Zur Bestimmung der Bindungsaffinität von Liganden zu den Plasmaproteinen, insbesondere Albumin, wurden über die Jahre zahlreiche Methoden entwickelt. Die Grundlage dieser Arbeit war die Bestimmung der Plasmaproteinbindung der Ephedra-Alkaloide unter Verwendung einzelner dieser etablierten Methoden. Aufgrund ihres Anwendungsgebiets als Notfallmedikation bei Anästhesie-bedingter Hypotonie und den damit verbundenen Anforderungen an die Pharmakokinetik, sollten die Ephedra-Alkaloide niedrig-affine Liganden der Plasmaproteine darstellen. In der Literatur und in vorhergehenden Arbeiten wurden für die Ephedra-Alkaloide jedoch sehr unterschiedliche, teilweise der Indikation widersprechende Affinitäten bestimmt. Daher sollte im Rahmen dieser Arbeit das Ausmaß der Plasmaproteinbindung der Ephedra-Alkaloide weiter untersucht und die Affinität zu Albumin bzw. anderen Plasmaproteinen im humanen Serum bestimmt werden. Neben der Affinität sollte auch die Stereoselektivität der Bindung genauer betrachtet werden, die bei der Bindung vieler Wirkstoffe eine Rolle spielt. Als Referenzmethode diente die kontinuierliche Ultrafiltration, die auch schon bei Hörst verwendet wurde.
Folgende Schlussfolgerungen konnten aus den Ergebnissen dieser Arbeit gezogen werden:
1) Die Ergebnisse der kontinuierlichen Ultrafiltration zeigten, dass die Ephedra-Alkaloide, Ephedrin und Pseudoephedrin, ein nur geringes Ausmaß an Plasmaprotein-bindung von 4 – 9 % gegenüber bovinem und humanem Serumalbumin zeigen. Eine deutlich höhere Plasmaproteinbindung von 19 – 37 % konnte hingegen bei der Verwendung von humanem Serum bestimmt werden. Die Affinität von Pseudoephedrin war dabei jeweils geringer als die von Ephedrin.
2) Diese Ergebnisse mit humanem Serum und die Tatsache, dass Albumin vorwiegend saure Stoffe bindet, legen nahe, dass die Ephedra-Alkaloide vermehrt an andere Plasmaproteine in Serum binden. Erste Messergebnisse mit saurem α1 Glykoprotein bestätigen diese Vermutung.
3) Eine Stereoselektivität konnte nur in geringem Maß bei (+) Ephedrin beobachtet werden, wobei der Unterschied nur im Serum signifikant ist. Pseudoephedrin dagegen zeigte keinerlei Stereoselektivität. Diese Beobachtung passt zu den Schlussfolgerungen der Pfeiffer‘schen Regel zur Stereoselektivität einer Bindung.
4) Andere Sympathomimetika mit einer zusätzlichen Phenolgruppe im Molekül zeigen eine ähnlich niedrige Affinität zu Albumin von ca. 10 %. Eine zusätzliche Phenolgruppe scheint die sauren Eigenschaften des Liganden nicht ausreichend zu erhöhen, um die Affinität zu Albumin signifikant zu steigern.
5) Das tertiäre Kohlenstoffatom am Stickstoff des Ephedrins scheint in gewisser Weise an der Bindung zu Albumin beteiligt zu sein. Sympathomimetika mit einer zusätzlichen Methylgruppe an diesem Kohlenstoffatom, wie Ephedrin, Pseudoephedrin und Oxilofrin, zeigen eine größere Streuung der Messergebnisse. Eine zusätzliche Methylgruppe in dieser Position scheint die Bindung daher sterisch zu hindern.
6) Die Ergebnisse der diskontinuierlichen Ultrafiltration bestätigen weitestgehend die Ergebnisse der kontinuierlichen Ultrafiltration
7) Eine Bestimmung des Ausmaßes der Plasmaproteinbindung von niedrig-affinen Stoffen ist mit den anderen orthogonalen Methoden ACE, NMR und iTC nicht möglich. Diese drei verwendeten Methoden trennen nicht wie die klassischen Methoden den gebundenen vom ungebundenen Wirkstoff, sondern beruhen auf einer Veränderung bestimmter Messparameter: bei der ACE die Migrationszeit, bei der NMR-Spektroskopie die chemische Verschiebung der Signale bzw. der Diffusionskoeffizient und bei der iTC die frei werdende Bindungswärme. Bei allen drei Methoden war die Änderung der Messgröße aufgrund der niedrigen Plasmaproteinbindung zu gering, um auswertbar zu sein.
8) Eine Störgröße bei die orthogonalen Methoden war vielfach auch das Albumin selbst bzw. dessen Eigenschaften. Bei der Affinitäts-Kapillarelektrophorese sind physiologische HSA-Konzentrationen wegen des starken Basislinienrauschens nicht messbar. Zudem bewirkt der Albuminzusatz im Trennpuffer eine Viskositätsänderung, die den EOF verlangsamt und so die Messung stört. Bei der NMR-Spektroskopie können wegen der Überlagerung der Signale durch die breiten Albuminbanden weder Veränderungen in der chemischen Verschiebung noch des Diffusionskoeffizienten zuverlässig bestimmt werden. In der iTC erschwerte die Schaumbildung der Lösung, die durch die Oberflächenaktivität des Albumins verursacht wird, die Messung.
In dieser Arbeit konnte somit das Ausmaß der Plasmaproteinbindung der Ephedra-Alkaloide mit verschiedenen Methoden erfolgreich bestimmt werden. Damit bestätigte diese Arbeit, dass die Ephedra-Alkaloide, wie deren Indikation vermuten lässt, zu den niedrig affinen Liganden des Albumins zählen. Um genauer eingrenzen zu können durch welche Plasmaproteine im Blutserum die Ephedra-Alkaloide transportiert werden, sollten die Untersuchungen zum sauren α1-Glykoprotein fortgesetzt und gegebenenfalls durch weitere Bestimmungen mit anderen Plasmaproteinen ergänzt werden.
Die Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit haben auch gezeigt, dass viele der unzähligen Methoden zur Untersuchung der Plasmaproteinbindung bei der Bestimmung von niedrig affinen Liganden ihre Grenzen haben. Nach wie vor sind zur Bestimmung einer niedrigen Bindungsaffinität weiterhin die klassischen Methoden, wie die kontinuierliche Ultrafiltration, Mittel der Wahl. Nicht zuletzt deshalb erfreuen sich diese Methoden auch heute noch großer Beliebtheit.
High-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is used in structure elucidation and qualitative as well as quantitative examination of product components. Despite the worldwide development of numerous innovative NMR spectroscopic methods, several official methods that analyze specific substances and do not represent a holistic analysis, are still in use for the quality control of drugs, food and chemicals. Thus, counterfeit or contaminated products of inferior quality can be brought onto the market and distributed despite previous quality controls. To prevent this, three NMR spectroscopic methods have been developed within the scope of this work (1) to study the peroxide value in vegetable and animal oils, (2) for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of metal cations and (3) to determine the enantiomeric excess in chiral alcohols. In oil analysis, titration methods are used to determine the bulk quality parameters such as peroxide value, which represents the concentration of peroxides. Titrations show several drawbacks, such as the need of a large amount of sample and solvents, cross reactions and the low robustness. Thus, an alternative NMR spectroscopic method was developed to improve the peroxide analysis by using triphenylphosphine as a derivatization reagent, which reacts with peroxides in a stoichiometric ratio of 1:1 forming triphenylphosphine oxide. In the 1H-31P decoupled NMR spectrum, the signals of the unreacted triphenylphosphine and the reacted triphenylphosphine oxide are detected at 7.4 ppm and 7.8 ppm, respectively. The ratio of the two signals is used for the calculation of the peroxide concentration. 108 oil samples with a peroxide value between 1 meq/kg and 150 meq/kg were examined using the developed method. Oils with a very low peroxide value of less than 3 meq/kg showed a relative standard deviation of 4.9%, highly oxidized oils with a peroxide value of 150 meq/kg of 0.2%. The NMR method was demonstrated as a powerful technique for the analysis of vegetable and krill oils. Another 1H NMR spectroscopic method was developed for the qualitative determination of Be2+, Sr2+ and Cd2+, and for the qualitative and quantitative determination of Ca2+, Mg2+, Hg2+, Sn2+, Pb2+ and Zn2+ by using ethylenediamine tetraacetate (EDTA) as complexing agent. EDTA is a hexadentate ligand that forms stable chelate complexes with divalent cations. The known amount of added EDTA and the signal ratio of free and complexed EDTA are used to calculate the concentrations of the divalent cations, which makes the use of an internal standard obsolete. The use of EDTA with Be2+, Sr2+, Cd2+, Ca2+, Mg2+, Hg2+, Sn2+, Pb2+ and Zn2+ result in complexes whose signals are pH-independent, showing cation-specific chemical shifts and couplings in the 1H NMR spectrum that are used for identification and quantification. In the presented NMR method, the limit of quantification of the cations Ca2+, Mg2+, Hg2+, Sn2+, Pb2+, and Zn2+ was determined with 5-22 μg/mL. This method is applicable in the food and drug sectors. The third NMR spectroscopic method introduced an alternative determination of the enantiomer excess (ee) of the chiral alcohols menthol, borneol, 1-phenylethanol and linalool using phosgene as a derivatizing reagent. Phosgene reacts with a chiral alcohol to form carboxylic acid diesters, made of two identical (RR, SS) or two different enantiomers (RS, SR). These two different types of diastereomers can be examined by the difference of their chemical shifts. In the presented method, the integration values of the carbonyl signals in the 13C NMR spectrum are used for the determination of the enantiomer excess. The limit of quantification depends, among others, on the sample and on the non-labelled or 13C-labelled phosgene used for the analysis. In the case of menthol, a quantification limit of ee=99.1% was determined using non-labelled phosgene and ee=99.9% using 13C-labelled phosgene. The 13C NMR method was also applied for the quality control of the enantiomeric purity of borneol, 1-phenylethanol and linalool. The developed 13C NMR method represents a powerful alternative to Mosher’s reagent for investigating the enantiomeric excess in chiral alcohols. This work demonstrates the variety of possibilities of applications for the quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the chemical analysis of drugs, food and chemicals using tagging reactions such as derivatizations and complexations. The nuclear resonance spectroscopic methods developed in this research work represent powerful alternatives to the previously used quality control techniques.
Salt formation is a routinely used strategy for poorly water-soluble drugs and traditionally performed with small inorganic counterions. High energy crystal lattices as well as effects on the local pH within the aqueous boundary layer during dissolution drive the increased dissolution rate and apparent solubility. Ionic liquids however, by definition low melting ionic salts with often large organic counterions, combine an increased dissolution rate with solubilization of the drug by the counterion itself. Long lasting supersaturation profiles of increased kinetic solubility were reported for several drugs formulated as ionic liquids increasing their overall bioavailability. Furthermore, aggregation and micellization between highly lipophilic compounds and amphiphilic bile acids was described before, demonstrating the capabilities of the human body itself to utilize solubilization of poorly water-soluble compounds. Development of novel counterions not only tailoring the desired physicochemical properties e.g. dissolution rate of the parent drug but adding – in a best-case scenario synergistic – pharmacological activity has been driven forward in the last years. However, salt formation can only be applied for ionizable i.e. acidic or basic compounds. While co-crystals can be used as a nonionized alternative, their formation is not always successful leading to an urgent need for other formulation strategies. In these lines, development of 2D and 3D printing techniques has been ongoing for the last decades and their pharmaceutical application has been demonstrated. The versatile nature and commercial availability allow a decentralized production further elaborating this technique for a highly flexible and patient-oriented supply with medication.
This thesis focuses on the theoretical background and potential application of salt formation in the pharmaceutical development of a drug candidate. The first section presents the current knowledge and state of the art in preparation of low melting ionic liquids i.e. salts and is translated to the in vitro investigation of molecular interaction between the poorly water-soluble drug imatinib and components of the human intestinal fluid in the second section. Development of novel antibiotic counterions and assessment of their potential use in pharmaceutical formulations with fluoroquinolones is described in the last two sections.
Chapter I describes the application of low melting ionic liquids in pharmaceutical formulation and details their development in the last two decades from versatile organic solvents in chemical synthesis towards amorphous strategies for drug delivery. The chapter gives a general overview on molecular structure and physicochemical properties of several drug containing ionic liquids and details the mechanisms which attribute to a typically fast dissolution, increased aqueous solubility as well as enhanced permeation which was reported in several publications.
Chapter II translates the increased aqueous solubility of drugs by an organic counterion to the human gastrointestinal tract with taurocholate and lecithin as main drivers for the solubilization of highly lipophilic and poorly water-soluble drugs. Investigation of the interaction of imatinib – a poorly water-soluble weak base – with fasted- and fed state simulated intestinal fluids revealed a complex interplay between the components of the intestinal fluid and the drug. Mixed vesicles and micelles were observed in concentration dependent aggregation assays and revealed differences in their size, molecular arrangement as well as composition, depending on the tested drug concentration. Overall, the study outlines the effective interaction of weakly basic drugs with taurocholate and lecithin to minimize recrystallization during intestine passage finally leading to favorable supersaturation profiles.
Chapter III focuses on the development of novel antibiotic counterions which potentially move the evolution of ionic liquids from a pharmaceutical salt with tailored physicochemical properties to a synergistic combination of two active pharmaceutical ingredients. The natural occurring anacardic acid derived from the cashew nut shell inspired a series of antibacterial active acidic compounds with increasing alkyl chain length. Their physicochemical properties, antibacterial activity, bacterial biofilm inhibition and cytotoxicity were detailed and in vivo activity in a Galleria mellonella model was assessed. This group of anacardic acid derivatives is synthetically accessible, easily modifiable and yielded two compounds with favorable activity and physicochemical profile for further drug development.
Chapter IV outlines the potential application of anacardic acid derivatives in pharmaceutical formulations by salt formation with fluoroquinolone antibiotics as well as novel techniques such as 2D/3D printing for preparation of drug imprinted products. Despite anacardic acid derivatives demonstrated promising physicochemical properties, salt formation with fluoroquinolone antibiotics was not feasible. However, 2D/3D printed samples with anacardic acid derivative alone or in combination with ciprofloxacin demonstrated physical compatibility between drug and matrix as well as antibacterial activity against three S. aureus strains in an agar diffusion assay. Conclusively, drug printing can be applied for the herein tested compounds, but further process development is necessary.
In summary, preparation of low melting ionic liquids, salts or co-crystals is an appropriate strategy to increase the aqueous solubility of poorly water-soluble drugs and tailor physicochemical properties. The counterion itself solubilizes the drug and furthermore potentially interferes with the complex micellar environment in the human intestine. However, salt formation as routinely used formulation strategy is not feasible in every case and development of alternative techniques is crucial to hurdle challenges related to unfavorable physicochemical properties. The outlined techniques for 2D/3D drug printing provide versatile production of drug products while extending the design space for novel drug development.
Die Detektion Arzneimittel-induzierter Leberschädigung (engl. DILI – Drug induced liver injury) stellt eine Herausforderung in der präklinischen Entwicklung von Arzneistoffen dar. Die zur Verfügung stehenden konventionellen klinisch-chemischen Marker, wie Alanin-Aminotransferase (ALAT), Aspartat-Aminotransferase (ASAT) und Alkalische Phosphatase (APh), zeigen z. B. bei minimaler bis leichter Leberpathologie keine Veränderungen im Serum an und besitzen somit nur eine geringe Sensitivität für den frühzeitigen Nachweis einer Lebertoxizität. Des Weiteren besitzen klinisch-chemische Serummarker gleichzeitig eine geringe Spezifität und sind somit für die Differenzierung unterschiedlicher Lebertoxizitäten nur limitiert geeignet. Neben den beschriebenen diagnostischen Herausforderungen können u. a. auch histopathologische Befunde in der Leber, ohne eine Veränderung der klinisch-chemischen Serummarker auftreten und umgekehrt. Die Histopathologie ist als Goldstandard zwar spezifisch, als invasive Technik für eine Verlaufskontrolle in toxikologischen und klinischen Studien aber ungeeignet. In den vergangenen Jahren lieferten Studien zum Gallensäure-Profiling mittels Flüssigkeitschromatographie-Tandem-Massenspektrometrie (LC-MS/MS) mit Modellsubstanzen, die unterschiedliche Formen einer Lebertoxizität in Ratten induzierten Hinweise, dass individuelle Gallensäuren ein diagnostisches Potential für die Bewertung einer Leberschädigung besitzen. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, dass Gallensäure-Profiling in die vorgeschriebene Diagnostik der Lebertoxizität in der präklinischen Arzneimittelentwicklung zu implementieren und zu bewerten, ob diese Marker einen wertvollen Beitrag zur Charakterisierung einer Lebertoxizität leisten können.
Hierzu wurde eine quantitative LC-MS/MS-Methode etabliert und validiert, die es ermöglicht, 20 verschiedene endogene Gallensäuren in Ratten zu analysieren. Die quantitative Analytik ermöglichte eine selektive Bestimmung von primären, konjugierten und sekundären Gallensäuren. Für die Quantifizierung der individuellen Gallensäuren wurden 2 MRM-Übergänge bestimmt. Zur Bestimmung des Arbeitsbereiches wurden 20 Referenzstandards von Gallensäuren verwendet. Eine Kalibrierung mit sieben Kalibrierpunkten in aufsteigender Konzentration wurde für die Bestimmung der endogenen Konzentrationen genutzt. Zur Kompensation des Matrixeffektes wurden 10 isotopenmarkierte interne Standards in die Analytik eingefügt. Die Reproduzierbarkeit laufender Messungen wurde durch eingefügte Qualitätskontrollen (QCs) in drei verschiedenen Konzentrationsbereichen überwacht.
Es wurde ein Gallensäure-Profiling mittels LC-MS/MS im Plasma und Lebergewebe von Ratten, die mit verschiedenen Arzneimitteln behandelt wurden, durchgeführt. Histopathologische
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Untersuchungen konnten aufzeigen, dass sich in den Lebern von männlichen Ratten, die mit dem Arzneimittel Amitriptylin über 14 Tage behandelt wurden, eine makrovesikuläre Steatose in der Leber manifestierte. Die klassischen Serummarker, wie ALAT, ASAT und Gamma-Glutamyltransferase (γGT), konnten diese Art des Leberschadens nicht detektieren. Dagegen erhöhten sich die Konzentrationen Glycin-konjugierter Gallensäuren mit parallel absinkenden Konzentrationen von Taurin-konjugierten Gallensäuren im Lebergewebe behandelter Ratten. Gleichzeitig ergaben sich signifikant erhöhte Konzentrationen der primären Gallensäuren CA und CDCA im Plasma behandelter Ratten.
Andere Gallensäure-Profile konnten nach einer Methapyrilen-induzierten Leberzellnekrose mit hepatobiliärer Schädigung beobachtet werden. Nach einer 14-tägigen Behandlungsphase mit 80 mg/kg KG Methapyrilen, erhöhten sich die Konzentrationen von 11 Gallensäuren im Lebergewebe behandelter Tiere. Gleichzeitig stiegen die Konzentrationen von allen 20 individuellen Gallensäuren im Plasma behandelter Ratten an.
Zusätzlich zur quantitativen Analyse von Gallensäuren mittels LC-MS/MS wurde die Expression von Genen der Gallensäure-Biosynthese, des Gallensäure-Transports und die Regulation der Gallensäure-Homöostase mittels Multiplex-Analyse untersucht. Die erhöhte Expression von Genen für Efflux-Transporter der Multidrug Resistance-Related Protein (MRP)-Familie deutet auf einen gesteigerten Abtransport von Gallensäuren ins Blut hin und korrespondierte mit erhöhten Gallensäure-Konzentrationen im Plasma der behandelten Ratten.
Des Weiteren wurden die Erkenntnisse der Gallensäure-Profile aus den tierexperimentellen Studien als Grundlage genutzt, um Arzneimittel-induzierte Lebertoxizität auf ein zellbiologisches In-vitro-System zu übertragen. Es wurden In-vitro-Experimente mit primären Rattenhepatozyten zwischen zwei Kollagenmatrices (Sandwich-Kultivierung) durchgeführt. Dieses etablierte System wird u. a. für Untersuchungen an hepatobiliären Transportsystemen (z. B. Bile Salt Export Pump, BSEP) genutzt. Das Gallensäure-Profiling in den Zellkulturüberständen belegt, dass die primären Hepatozyten konjugierte Gallensäuren bilden, dass sie bei einer Inkubation mit primären Gallensäuren diese verstoffwechseln und dadurch, neben den bereits vorhandenen Gallensäuren, weitere konjugierte Gallensäuren produzieren. Eine Exposition mit den Hepatotoxinen Troglitazon und Methapyrilen führte zu Veränderungen in der Gallensäure-Homöostase der Hepatozyten.
In den In-vivo-Experimenten wurde eine Methapyrilen-induzierte Nekrose mit hepatobiliärer Schädigung in den behandelten Ratten festgestellt. Bei der Behandlung mit Methapyrilen ergaben sich starke Konzentrationsanstiege der Gallensäuren im Plasma (u. a. von GCA und TCA), die mit den histopathologischen Befunden korrelierten. Anhand dieser Daten und der
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pharmakokinetischen Eigenschaften von Methapyrilen wurde ein Studiendesign für Rattenhepatozyten in Sandwich-Kulturen entwickelt, um eine initiale Abschätzung der Konzentrationsveränderungen von Gallensäuren im In-vitro-Testsystem durchzuführen. Ab Tag 8 der Behandlung kam es zu einem erhöhten Anstieg der GCA- und TCA-Konzentrationen im Zellkulturmedium. Daher besitzt das In-vitro-Testsystem möglicherweise das Potential, tierexperimentelle Studien bei der Bewertung einer Hepatotoxizität zu unterstützen oder sogar zu reduzieren.
Insgesamt zeigen diese Ergebnisse aus dieser Arbeit, dass Gallensäure-Profiling in männlichen und weiblichen Ratten eine geeignete Methode zur Detektion und Differenzierung von Leberschäden ist. Die Technologie ist flexibel einsetzbar und kann bereits etablierte Testverfahren, wie die Bestimmung von Serummarkern in der Klinischen Chemie und die Histopathologie unterstützen. Damit besitzt das Gallensäure-Profiling das Potential, die Bewertung beim Nachweis und bei der Charakterisierung einer Lebertoxizität im Rahmen der Evaluierung von präklinischen Arzneimittelkandidaten zu verbessern.
Liquid chromatography has become the gold standard for modern quality control and purity analytics since its establishment in the 1930s. However, some analytical questions remain very challenging even today. Several molecules and impurities do not possess a suitable chromophore for the application of UV detection or cannot be retained well on regular RP columns. Possible solutions are found in derivatization procedures, but they are time consuming and can be prone to errors. In order to detect non chromophore molecules underivatized, the concept of aerosol based universal detection was established with the introduction of the evaporative light scattering detector (ELSD) in the 1970s and the charged aerosol detector (CAD) followed in 2002. These two challenging fields – polar and non chromophore molecules – are tackled in this thesis.
An overview of applications of the CAD in the literature and a comparison to its aerosol based competitors and MS is presented, emphasizing on its high sensitivity and robustness. Parameters and techniques to overcome the drawbacks of CAD, such as the use of gradient compensation or adjusted evaporation temperatures are discussed. A consideration of aspects and drawbacks of data transformation such as the integrated power function value (PFV) in the GMP environment is performed.
A method for the fatty acid analysis in polysorbate 80 that was developed on HPLC CAD was transferred to UHPLC CAD. Time and eluent savings of over 75% and 40%, respectively, as well as ways to determine the optimal CAD parameters resulted from this investigation. The evaporation temperature was determined as the most crucial setting, which has to be adjusted with care. Optimal signal to noise ratios are found at a compromise between maintaining analyte signal and reducing background noise. The incorporation of semi volatile short chain fatty acids enabled the observation of differences based on volatility of the analyte. E.g. for semi volatiles, an improved linearity by means of adjusting the PFV is achieved at values below 1.0 instead of at elevated PFVs.
Using sugars and sugar related antibiotics, a proof-of-concept was given that artificial neural networks can describe correlations between the structure and physicochemical properties of molecules and their response in CAD. Quantitative structure property relationships obtained by design of experiment approaches were able to predict the response of unseen substances and yielded insights on the response generation of the detector, which heavily relies on the formed surface area of the dried particle. Further work can substantiate upon these findings, eventually building a library of diverse eluent compositions, analytes and settings.
In order to cope with a chromatographically challenging substances, the application of ion pairing reversed phase chromatography coupled to low wavelength UV detection has been shown as a possible approach for the amino acid L asparagine. A method capable of compendial purity analysis in one single HPLC approach, thus making the utilization of the semi quantitative TLC-ninhydrin analysis obsolete, resulted from this. One cyclic dipeptide impurity (diketoasparagine) that was formerly not assessed, could be identified in several batches and added to the monograph of the Ph.Eur.
Studying ibandronate sodium with CAD and ELSD, it was found that randomly occurring spike peaks represent a major flaw of the ELSD when high sample load is present. The research with this non chromophore bisphosphonate drug furthermore shed light on possible drawbacks of mixed mode chromatography methods and ways to overcome these issues. Due to strong adsorption of the analyte onto the column, over ten injections of the highly concentrated test solution were found to be necessary to ensure reproducible peak areas. Preconditioning steps should thus be evaluated for mixed mode approaches during method development and validation.
Last, using a ternary mixed mode stationary phase coupled to CAD, a method for the impurity profiling of pamidronate disodium, also applicable to the assessment of phosphate and phosphite in four other bisphosphonate drugs, has been developed. This represents a major advantage over the Ph.Eur. impurity profiling of pamidronate, which requires two different methods, one of which is only a semi quantitative TLC approach.
The stability of Trp in pure solutions and in parenteral AA formulations was evaluated with regard to typically used manufacturing processes, storage conditions and primary packaging. Therefore, thorough stability studies on Trp solutions were conducted beforehand. The applied stressing method, i.e. steam sterilization by autoclave, are chemically seen relatively mild but showed to be efficient to induce Trp degradation in the presence of oxygen. Subsequent identification, separation and characterization were challenging due to similar substance properties, numerous stereoisomers and pairs of diastereomers found amongst them. However, the identified o-aminoacetophenone compounds, Kyn and NFK, are associated with photo reactivity and have photo-oxidizing properties. Thus, best possible protection from UV-light, together with strict oxygen expulsion, are the most important criteria to impede Trp degradation after autoclaving.
The identification of Trp degradation products was assisted by the compilation of a substance library, which included manifold reported and chemically plausible Trp degradation substances. The substances were classified for priority and their early or late-stage occurrence. The large number of possible substances and stereoisomers was narrowed down with the information retrieved from LC-UV/MS experiments. However, final identification was achieved by the synthesis of proposed substances as references. The following eight substances were characterized as Trp degradation substances: Kyn, NFK and three pairs of diastereomers R,R/R,S DiOia, R,R/R,S Oia and cis/trans PIC. Fig. 33 shows the proposed degradation pathway and demonstrates the close chemical relationship, which may be an explanation for the conversion of some substances into each other during the storage period. The proposed pathway brings together the results of different Trp stability and stressing studies, respectively [89, 94, 97, 98, 103, 133]. To our knowledge, the simultaneous formation of the identified degradation substances has not been reported before and especially not under the stressing conditions applied.
The application of a traditional RP-HPLC method was compared to two developed IP-HPLC methods and a RP-HPLC methods using a modified perfluorinated column. Orthogonal analyses methods and especially the combination of UV and MS detection are necessary in order to indicate potentially undetected degradation substances. Main evaluation criteria were the separation performance, analyses time, reproducibility and feasibility. The best results upon assessment of all Trp degradation products, in both; pure Trp solutions and pharmaceutical formulations, were obtained by a traditional RP-HPLC. The optimized method was validated according to ICH guidelines Q2(R1) and meets the criteria of a stability-indicating HPLC-UV method. The validated method has a sufficient separation performance with an adequate selectivity indicating the Trp degradation substances next to each other and next to other AAs in finished pharmaceutical formulations.
The detailed knowledge of Trp degradation and the method presented may be transferred practically to the pharmaceutical industry processing Trp-containing products. In general, the findings might contribute to the quality management of such pharmaceutical products during
manufacturing and storage. Additionally, the study results provide basic information for the establishment of an impurity consideration following the ICH guidelines Q3B (R2) (impurities in new drug products) for products containing Trp. However, further development of the method applying more sophisticated detectors or more potent HPLC techniques like e.g. UHPLC and the implication of more sensitive (MS) detectors like ToF-MS would be advantageous with regard to economic and practical aspects.
Articular cartilage lesions that occur upon intensive sport, trauma or degenerative disease represent a severe therapeutic problem. At present, osteoarthritis is the most common joint disease worldwide, affecting around 10% of men and 18% of women over 60 years of age (302). The poor self-regeneration capacity of cartilage and the lack of efficient therapeutic treatment options to regenerate durable articular cartilage tissue, provide the rationale for the development of new treatment options based on cartilage tissue engineering approaches (281). The integrated use of cells, biomaterials and growth factors to guide tissue development has the potential to provide functional substitutes of lost or damaged tissues (2,3). For the regeneration of cartilage, the availability of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) or their recruitment into the defect site is fundamental (281). Due to their high proliferation capacity, the possibility to differentiate into chondrocytes and their potential to attract other progenitor cells into the defect site, bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (BMSCs) are still regarded as an attractive cell source for cartilage tissue engineering (80). However, in order to successfully engineer cartilage tissue, a better understanding of basic principles of developmental processes and microenvironmental cues that guide chondrogenesis is required.
In the „Position Paper of the Division of Clinical Pharmacy of the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG)” clinical pharmacy is defined as the science and practice of the rational use of drugs1, which includes the individualization of drug therapy. Clinical pharmacists therefore need a profound knowledge of the pharmacokinetic properties of relevant drugs, and clinical factors that are influencing these properties.
Against the background of individualizing drug therapy, pharmacokinetic and clinical factors are studied in this thesis.
In order to obtain an overview of the existing data on the pharmacokinetics of imipenem / cilastatin and meropenem in critically ill patients, a literature review for each of these carbapenem antibiotics was performed. These reviews included studies in critically ill patients as well as studies in healthy volunteers. While the reported results of studies in healthy volunteers had a small variability, studies in critically ill patients show significant differences in the resulting pharmacokinetics. These differences were not only between, but also within these studies, resulting in a high variability of the pharmacokinetic parameters of the carbapenems in critically ill patients. Furthermore, the results of studies in critically ill patients indicate that clinical factors and in particular renal function have different effects on the pharmacokinetics of imipenem and cilastatin.
A therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) program for antibiotics was initiated in an intensive care unit. The calculation of the pharmacokinetics of imipenem / cilastatin and meropenem was carried out with a population pharmacokinetic approach (POP-PK) and in addition with a non-compartmental approach (NCA).
The POP-PK analysis showed that the pharmacokinetics of imipenem and cilastatin could be described adequately with a 1-compartment model. The resulting mean total body clearance (CL) of imipenem and cilastatin was 11.6 L/h (4.24 to 27.5) and 6.14 L/h (0.520 to 26.6 L/h). The nonrenal clearance was estimated to be 5.30 L / h (24.9% CV) for imipenem and 0.138 L / h (33.3% CV) for cilastatin.
The results of the NCA were in good agreement with the results of the POP-PK approach, as the NCA resulted in an imipenem clearance of 15.5 ± 7.3 L / hr and cilastatin clearance of 10.1 ± 9.9 L / h. The individual clearances resulting from the different pharmacokinetic approaches were in good correlation showing correlation coefficients (r) of 0.882 (p <0.001) and 0.908 (p <0.001) for imipenem and cilastatin.
In summary, this study identified and quantified significant differences between the individual clearance mechanisms of imipenem and cilastatin. This is particularly true for patients with impaired renal function and sepsis. As imipenem / cilastatin is only available in a fixed dose combination, those patients might be treated inadequately with this combination. The great variability in the pharmacokinetics of imipenem and cilastatin in septic patients underscores the importance of a TDM program of both substances.
For meropenem, a PK/PD model was developed that predicts the concentration gradients of meropenem, serum creatinine, C-reactive protein and procalcitonin simultaneously. A non-linear relationship between the clearance of creatinine and meropenem was identified and the resulting equation for the calculation of the total body clearance of meropenem (for a 70 kg patient) was: 0.480 L/h + 9.86 L/h. (CLCR/6L/h)0.593, with 0.480 L/h representing the nonrenal clearance of meropenem.
The resulting mean meropenem clearance of the NCA was 11.9 ± 8.7 L/h. The individual clearances resulting from the different pharmacokinetic approaches were poorly correlated showing a correlation coefficient (r) of 0.502 (p <0.001).
In summary, this study showed a non-linear relationship of meropenem clearance and creatinine clearance. The model shows that the renal function may change rapidly and to a significant extent in patients with sepsis and septic shock, which in turn, underscores that creatinine concentrations are not in steady state in these patients. Conversely, dose adjustment based on creatinine values might lead to inappropriate therapy. This underlines the importance of a TDM program for meropenem in critically ill patients.
The two most important considerations when choosing an antibiotic for the prophylaxis of postoperative bone infections are its activity against the whole spectrum of bacteria, which might be involved in bone infections, and its ability to penetrate bone tissue and thus to achieve concentrations above the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of the corresponding pathogens.
In order to gain information on this data, a study was conducted which investigated the pharmacokinetics of ampicillin / sulbactam in plasma, cortical and cancellous bone. Pharmacokinetic parameters in plasma were determined using NCA. The bone penetration represents the ratio of the concentration in the bone tissue to plasma concentration at the time of bone removal. The resulting half-life of ampicillin and sulbactam in plasma was 1.60 0.37 h and 1.70 0.42 h. The elimination of both substances was in a good correlation with creatinine clearance and resulted in correlation coefficients (r) of 0.729 (p = 0.003) for ampicillin and 0.699 (p = 0.005) for sulbactam. The mean clearance and the mean volume of distribution of ampicillin and sulbactam were 10.7 3.9 and 10.3 3.3 L/h, and 23.9 7.9 and 24.3 6.8 L. The mean concentrations of ampicillin in the cortical and cancellous bone were 6.60 4.22 and 10.15 7.40 µg/g, resulting in bone penetration ratios of 9.1 5.7 and 16.2 16.9 %. For sulbactam the corresponding concentrations were 3.91 2.52 and 5.73 4.20 µg/g, resulting in bone penetration ratios of 10.6 6.3 and 17.5 16.1 %.
In summary, this study shows that the bone penetration of both substances is on average rather unsatisfactory and has a high variability, which can lead to inadequate bone concentrations for the prophylaxis of bone infections. One factor that could be identified for the penetration of both substances into cancellous bone was the period between the application of the drug and the removal of the bone. Therefore, a time interval between the administration of the antibiotic and the incision should be considered.
Immunosuppression is a risk factor for the development of various malignancies, including hematologic diseases. While the relationship between the use of immunosuppressive therapy with methotrexate and the development of an Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) associated lymphoproliferative disease (LPD) has been well established, this connection is less evident for immunosuppressive therapy with azathioprine.
The patient presented by us was immunosuppressed with azathioprine for autoimmune hepatitis. The development of an EBV-associated Hodgkin-like lymphoma under this immunosuppressive therapy and especially the regression of the lymphoma after cessation of azathioprine confirms the relationship between this immunosuppressant, EBV-infection and the development of Hodgkin-like lymphoma. Therefore, albeit in rare cases, azathioprine-related lymphomas may respond to mere cessation of immunosuppressive therapy without need for chemotherapy.
Apart from viral infections, drugs are a major cause of acute liver failure. Due to the lack of specific symptoms or tests, it is difficult to diagnose a drug-induced liver injury. We report a case of a young patient in whom different antibiotics, the analgesic and antipyretic acetaminophen or a combination of these drugs may have led to DILI resulting in life-threatening ALF. Based on this case report, we describe a procedure to exclude non-drug related causes and discuss the hepatotoxic potential of the involved drugs in this case.
Lokalisation und Bedeutung der NO-sensitiven Guanylyl-Cyclase bei der Leberfibrose in der Maus
(2019)
Mittels der im Rahmen dieser Arbeit behandelten Untersuchungen konnten neue Erkenntnisse über die Rolle der NO-GC bei der Pathogenese der Lungen- und der Leberfibrose gewonnen wer- den. Infolge einer Fibrose in Lunge und Leber kommt es zu einer übermäßigen Akkumulation von EZM, die zum Organversagen führen kann. Bis jetzt existieren nur wenige Therapiemöglichkeiten, die zur Behandlung von Organfibrose dienen. Jedoch konnte bereits gezeigt werden, dass durch den Einsatz von NO-GC-Stimulatoren/Aktivatoren es zu Verbesserung/Heilung bei verschiedenen Organfibrosen kommt. Deshalb wird vermutet, dass die NO-GC eine modulatorische Rolle bei der Entwicklung einer Organfibrose einnimmt. Die Effektorzellen sind bisher unbekannt.
Im ersten Teil dieser Arbeit sollten die Effektorzellen der Lunge in vitro untersucht werden. Da bekannt ist, dass in der Lunge Perizyten NO-GC exprimieren, wurde ein Protokoll etabliert, das es ermöglichte, Perizyten spezifisch aus der Lunge zu isolieren und in Kultur zu bringen. Durch den Einsatz von verschiedenen Markern wurden im Anschluss diese isolierten Perizyten weiter charakterisiert. Zum einen konnte festgestellt werden, dass die NO-GC in diesen isolierten Zellen exprimiert wird. Zum anderen stellte sich heraus, dass die Perizyten auch durch einen Marker (SM/MHC) identifiziert werden können, der eigentlich als VSMC-Marker gilt. Diese Daten waren analog zu den In-vivo-Daten von Aue et al. Zusätzlich sollte untersucht werden, ob diese NO-GC- exprimierenden Perizyten in Kultur zu Myofibroblasten differenziert werden können. Dies gelang jedoch nicht durch Stimulation mit TGF-β1.
Im zweiten Teil dieser Arbeit sollte herausgefunden werden, in welchen Zellen in der Leber die NO-GC exprimiert wird. Es konnte in vivo gezeigt werden, dass die NO-GC in der Leber in den HSC exprimiert wird. Da bekannt ist, dass die NO-GC Einfluss auf die Organfibrose nimmt, sollte die NO-GC-Expression in der Leberfibrose untersucht werden. Dabei konnte festgestellt werden, dass es zu einer gesteigerten NO-GC-Expression in der CCl4-induzierten Leberfibrose kommt. Diese war vor allem in den Myofibroblasten lokalisiert – den Zellen, die wahrscheinlich für den übermäßigen Einbau der EZM sorgen. Um den Einfluss der NO-GC auf die Leberfibrose genau- er zu untersuchen, wurde die Fibrose zwischen WT- und GCKO-Tieren verglichen. Dabei konnte beobachtet werden, dass es in den GCKO-Tieren zu einer stärkeren Fibrose als in WT-Tieren kam, die sich durch eine vermehrte Einlagerung von Kollagen und einer erhöhten Expression von TGF-β1 auszeichnete. Damit konnte nachgewiesen werden, dass die NO-GC eine wahrschein- lich protektive Rolle in der Leberfibrose einnimmt.
Im dritten Teil dieser Arbeit wurde die Rolle der HSC in der Leberfibrose genauer untersucht. Dabei konnte zum ersten mal festgestellt werden, dass sich die HSC in Subpopulation unter- teilen lassen. Durch den Einsatz von Reportermäusen, bei denen unter dem SM/MHC- oder PDGFRβ-Promotor das Flurophor tdTomato exprimiert wurde, ließen sich die HSC in 3 Subpo- pulationen einteilen: (1) SM/MHC-Tomato− und PDGFRβ-Tomato−; (2) SM/MHC-Tomato− und PDGFRβ-Tomato+ und (3) SM/MHC-Tomato+ und PDGFRβ-Tomato−. Durch Lineage-Tracing- Versuche konnte den beschriebenen Subpopulationen Aufgaben in der Leberfibrose und in deren Auflösung zugeordnet werden. Die Subpopulation 1 ist in der gesunden Leber hauptsächlich in den Zonen 2 und 3 des Leberazinus lokalisiert. In der Fibrose wandern diese Zellen zu den fibrotischen Regionen und differenzieren dort zu Myofibroblasten. In der Auflösung der Fibrose verschwinden diese Zellen durch Apoptose aus der Leber. Die HSC-Subpopulation 2 befindet sich in der gesunden Leber in der Zone 1 des Leberazinus. Auch in und nach Auflösung der Leberfibrose verweilen diese Zellen dort. Zwar befindet sich die HSC-Subpopulation 3 in der ge- sunden Leber ebenfalls nur in Zone 1 des Leberazinus, jedoch wandern die Zellen in der Fibrose in die Zone 2 und 3 und ersetzen dort die HSC-Subpopulation 1, die in die fibrotische Region gewandert ist. Nach Auflösung der Leberfibrose hat die HSC-Subpopulation 3 die Population 1 vollständig ersetzt.
Nach Identifizierung der HSC-Subpopulationen stellte sich die Frage, ob ein spezifischer Aus- schnitt der NO-GC zu einer veränderten Leberfibrose führt im Vergleich zum WT. Dazu wurde unter dem SM/MHC- und PDGFRβ-Promotor die NO-GC deletiert und die Fibrose in diesen Knockouts untersucht. Während bei der Deletion der NO-GC unter dem PDGFRβ-Promotor kein Unterschied im Vergleich zum WT gesehen werden konnte, ließ sich beim SM/MHC-GCKO Unterschiede feststellen. Durch den Ausschnitt der NO-GC in den Zellen der HSC-Subpopulation 3 kam es zu einer verringerten Expression von PPARγ in der gesunden Leber. Da PPARγ als Gegenspieler von TGF-β1 fungiert, konnte eine erhöhte TGF-β1-Expression in der gesunden und fibrotischen Leber des SM/MHC-GCKO im Vergleich zum WT-Tier gesehen werden. Diese Ergebnisse sprechen dafür, dass die NO-GC über die Steuerung des PPARγ ihren protektiven Effekt auf die Leberfibrose ausübt.
Molecular Effects of Polyphenols in Experimental Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Metabolic Syndrome
(2019)
The growing prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) demands novel therapeutic and adjuvant strategies. Polyphenols (PPs) are plant secondary metabolites. Epidemiological studies demonstrate an inverse relationship between their increased intake and the risk of development of T2DM and cardiovascular complications. However, the PPs’ mechanism of action remains largely unknown. The present work aimed to expand knowledge regarding the effects of PPs on diabetes relevant molecular targets.
Pycnogenol® (PYC) is a standardized pine bark extract which consists of oligomeric and monomeric PPs. Its anti-diabetic effects have been demonstrated in clinical trials. As a part of a human study involving 20 healthy volunteers, the extract’s effects on dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP IV) were investigated. This protease terminates the insulin secretagogue action of incretins. Its inhibition is a promising strategy in T2DM treatment. This study uncovered that PYC-intake of 100 mg daily over 14 days statistically significantly reduced DPP IV serum concentrations by 8.2 % (n= 38, p= 0.032). Contrary to expectations, this decrease was not paralleled by a reduction in the serum DPP IV enzymatic activity. To the best of our knowledge, the present study was the first investigating the effects of PPs on DPP IV serum concentrations and activities in humans. The finding that PYC is capable of reducing DPP IV serum concentrations might be important with regard to diabetes, where DPP IV levels are increased.
Screenings for PPs’ in vitro effects on DPP IV activity were performed employing a purified enzyme. The effects of tested PPs (among which PYC ingredients) at a physiologically relevant concentration of 5 µM were weak (< 10 %) and too small compared to the reference compound sitagliptin, and thus not likely to be clinically relevant. This result is in discordance with some published data, but consistent with the outcome from the present human study. In addition, fluorescence interactions with the experimental setup were registered: under certain conditions urolithin B exhibited an autofluorescence which might mask eventual inhibitory activity. Quercetin quenched the fluorescence slightly which might contribute to false positive results. No statistically significant effects of selected constituents and metabolites of PYC on the total DPP IV protein expression were observed in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Thus, the lower DPP IV in vivo concentrations after intake of PYC cannot be explained with down-regulation of the DPP IV expression in adipocytes.
Akt kinase is responsible for the transmission of insulin signals and its dysregulation is related to insulin resistance and plays an important role in development of cardiovascular complications in T2DM. Thus, the modulation of the phosphorylation status of endothelial Akt-kinase, respectively its activity, might be a promising strategy in the management of these pathologies. This work aimed to uncover the effects of PPs from different structural subclasses on Akt-phosphorylation (pAkt) in endothelial cells (Ea.hy926). Short-term effects (5 – 30 min) were investigated at a concentration of 10 µM. In a pilot study two model PPs induced a moderate, but reproducible inhibition of pAkt Ser473 of 52.37 ± 21.01 % (quercetin; p= 0.006, n= 3) and 37.79 ± 7.14 % (resveratrol; p= 0.021, n= 4) compared to the negative control. A primary screening with Western blot analysis investigated the effects of eight compounds from different subclasses on pAkt Ser473 and Thr308 to reveal whether the observed inhibition PPs a group effect or specific to certain compounds. In addition to resveratrol and quercetin, statistically significant inhibitions of pAkt Ser473 were induced by luteolin (29.96 ± 11.06 %, p< 0.01, n= 6) and apigenin (22.57 ± 10.30 %, p< 0.01, n= 6). In contrast, genistein, 3,4,5-trimethoxystilbene, taxifolin and (+)-catechin caused no inhibition. A strong positive and statistically significant correlation between the mean inhibitory effects of the tested PPs on both Akt-residues Ser473 and Thr308 (r= 0.9478, p= 0.0003) was determined. A comprehensive secondary screening via ELISA involving 44 compounds from nine structural groups quantified the effects of PPs on pAkt Ser473 to uncover potential structure-activity features. The most potent inhibitors were luteolin (44.31 ± 17.95 %), quercetin (35.71 ± 8.33 %), urolithin A (35.28 ± 11.80 %), apigenin (31.79 ± 6.16 %), fisetin (28.09 ± 9.09 %), and resveratrol (26.04 ± 5.58 %). These effects were statistically significant (p< 0.01, n= 3 to 6). Further lead structure optimization might be based on the fact that the effects of luteolin and resveratrol also differed statistically significantly from each other (p= 0.008).
To the best of our knowledge, the present study is the first to compare quantitatively the short term effects of PPs from different subclasses on pAkt in endothelial cells. Basic structure-activity relationships revealed that for flavones and flavonols the presence of a C2=C3 double bond (ring C) was essential for inhibitory activity and hydroxylation on the m- and p- positions in the ring B contributed to it. For stilbenoids, three free OH-groups appeared to be optimal. The comparison of the inhibitory potentials of ellagic acid and its microbial metabolites showed that urolithin A was statistically significantly more effective than its progenitor compound. Despite their structural similarities, the only active compound among all urolithins tested was urolithin A, hydroxylated at the C3 and C8 positions. This suggested a specific effect for urolithin A. Based on the common structural determinants and molecular geometry of the most active PPs a pharmacophore model regarding Akt-inhibition was proposed.
In summary, the effects of a wide variety of PPs from diverse structural subclasses on the in vitro phosphorylation of endothelial Akt were quantitatively analyzed for the first time, the effects of previously undescribed compounds were determined and structure activity relationships were elucidated. The inhibitory potential of individual PPs might be beneficial in cases of sustained over-activation of Akt-kinase and its substrates such as S6 kinase as reported for certain T2DM-related pathological states, such as insulin resistance, endothelial dysfunction, excessive angiogenesis, vascular calcification, and insulin triggered DNA-damage. The results of the present work suggest potential molecular mechanisms of action of PP involving Akt-inhibition and DPP IV-down-regulation and thus contribute to the understanding of anti-diabetic effects of these compounds on the molecular level.
Bakterielle und parasitäre MIP-Proteine stellen wichtige Virulenzfaktoren dar, deren Inhibition das Überleben der Erreger sowie deren Penetration in menschliche Zellen stark einschränken kann. In dieser Arbeit standen die MIP-Proteine von Burkholderia pseudomallei (Auslöser der Melioidose) und Legionella pneumophila (Legionärskrankheit) im Fokus. Außerdem wurde das MIP-Protein von Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas-Krankheit) untersucht. Die strukturverwandten humanen FKB-Proteine FKBP12 und FKBP52 sind relevante „off-targets“, wie Experimente mit Knockout-Mäusen gezeigt haben.
Ziel dieser Arbeit war die Verbesserung von bekannten MIP-Inhibitoren im Hinblick auf ihre Affinität und Selektivität für MIP-Proteine gegenüber den beiden genannten FKB-Proteinen bei gleichzeitig verbesserter Löslichkeit, mit Hilfe von in silico Methoden. Ausgangspunkt waren hierbei zwei von Dr. Christina Juli und Dr. Florian Seufert entwickelte Leitstrukturen, welche ein Pipecolinsäuregrundgerüst aufweisen. Diese Referenzliganden beinhalten einen 3,4,5-Trimethoxyphenylring (TMPR, vgl. Ref_t) bzw. einen Pyridinylring (Ref_p).
Beim Vergleich von insgesamt 32 MIP- und FKB-Proteinen konnten in zwei Loop-Bereichen, welche 50er bzw. 80er Loop genannt werden, relevante Unterschiede in der Aminosäuresequenz identifiziert werden. Die Nummerierung bezieht sich stets auf FKBP12. Diese Unterschiede ließen sich zum Design von vergleichsweise selektiv an MIP-Proteine bindenden Molekülen nutzen.
Der 50er Loop ist in nahezu allen MIP-Proteinen (jedoch nicht in BpsMIP) im Vergleich zu den FKB-Proteinen um zwei Aminosäuren verkürzt. Dadurch befindet sich das Proteinrückgrat von LpnMIP (Gln49) und TcrMIP (Arg49) näher am Zentrum der Bindetasche (definiert als Ile56, welches durch die Pipecolinsäureesterfunktion der Liganden adressiert wird). MD-Simulationen der beiden Apoproteine belegten, dass die geringere Distanz nicht durch Artefakte beim Modellieren der Strukturen bedingt ist. Aufbauend auf dieser Erkenntnis wurde gezeigt, dass der Pyridinylring von Ref_p eine Wasserstoffbrücke zu Gln49 ausbildet. Experimentell wurde dieser Befund durch eine entsprechende chemische Verschiebung der Aminosäure im NMR-Experiment von Dr. Kristian Schweimer bestätigt. Durch Überbrückung des Pipecolinsäurerings (Ligand 6bp) konnte die Wasserstoffbrücke in MD-Simulationen weiter stabilisiert werden. Durch Rechnungen zur Abschätzung der freien Bindungsenthalpien (mittels LIE und MM/GBSA) wurde eine erhöhte Affinität von 6bp im Vergleich zu Ref_p in LpnMIP ermittelt.
Im Laufe der Arbeit wurde anhand von pIC50-Werten, welche von Dr. Mathias Weiwad bestimmt wurden, erkannt, dass Liganden mit Pyridinylring oftmals eine bessere Affinität in LpnMIP aufweisen als die entsprechenden Liganden mit TMPR. Durch MD Simulationen wurde nachgewiesen, dass der TMPR in LpnMIP nur schwer an der in den anderen Proteinen bevorzugten Position binden kann. Grund hierfür ist die Mutation einer Aminosäure (zu Pro57) in diesem Bereich von LpnMIP: Diese verfügt über eine wenig flexible Seiten-kette, an welche sich der TMPR auf Grund seiner Rigidität nicht anpassen kann, was die Interaktion zwischen Protein und Ligand stört. Der Pyridinylring von Ref_p ist hiervon nicht betroffen, da er bevorzugt an einer anderen Stelle (Gln49, s. o.) bindet.
Der 80er Loop weist in vielen MIP-Proteinen deutlich hydrophobere Aminosäuren auf als in FKB-Proteinen. Von besonderem Interesse ist die Position 90, da hier in BpsMIP und LpnMIP sterisch weniger anspruchsvolle Aminosäuren (Val, Pro) vorliegen als in den bei-den FKB-Proteinen (Ile, Lys). Dieser Unterschied wurde mit kleinen hydrophoben Substituenten am Phenylring der Liganden adressiert. Bereits im Docking zeigten sich die positiven Effekte der para-Substitution durch Halogenatome oder eine Methylgruppe. Die von Dr. Mathias Weiwad und Dr. Mirella Vivoli ermittelten pIC50- bzw. pKi-Werte bestätigten diesen Trend. Zugleich nahm die Affinität zu FKBP12 deutlich ab. Bei der Untersuchung der Referenzliganden sowie deren Chlor- und Bromderivate in MD-Simulationen zeigte sich, dass der Phenylring der Liganden in den MIP-Proteinen bevorzugt in Richtung des 80er Loops orientiert ist; in den FKB-Proteinen liegt er hingegen um etwa 110° gedreht vor und kann somit schlechter mit der Bindetasche interagieren. Besonders ausgeprägt ist dieser Effekt in FKBP12. Basierend auf diesen Ergebnissen wurde der Phenylring durch einen 4-Bromo-1H-imidazol-2-ylsubstituenten ersetzt (Ligand 8ap). Dieser ist in der Lage, in der erwarteten Orientierung im Bereich des 80er Loops von BpsMIP zu binden und gleichzeitig eine stabile Wasserstoffbrücke zu Asp37 auszubilden. Hieraus resultiert für den Liganden eine deutlich höhere Affinität in LIE- und MM/GBSA-Rechnungen; in FKBP12 blieb sie auf Grund der dort instabilen Interaktion unverändert.
Die berechneten Energien können unmittelbar für einen relativen Vergleich verschiedener Liganden in einer Bindetasche verwendet werden. Für die Vorhersage von pKi- bzw. pIC50-Werten in den verschiedenen Proteinen ist eine Kalibrierung gegen die gemessenen Affinitäten erforderlich. Dies wurde für BpsMIP durchgeführt, indem eine lineare Korrelation zwischen den pKi- bzw. pIC50-Werten und den mit MM/GBSA ermittelten Energien aufgestellt wurde. Für LIE wurde auf publizierte Werte von Lamb et al. zurückgegriffen. Die berechneten Affinitäten stimmen für die bereits getesteten Inhibitoren gut mit den experimentellen pKi- und pIC50-Werten überein. Anhand der Modelle werden für 8ap Werte vorhergesagt, die besser als die experimentellen Affinitäten bekannter Liganden sind.
Idealerweise können auch aus den Scores, die durch Docking erhalten werden, bereits Rückschlüsse auf die Affinitäten der Liganden gezogen werden. Für die untersuchten Proteine war dies, auf Grund des engen Bereichs der experimentell ermittelten pKi- und pIC50-Werte, nicht mit hinreichender Richtigkeit möglich. Um die Scores dennoch für die Beurteilung neuer Liganden verwenden zu können, wurden logistische Regressionsmodelle erstellt. Anhand dieser kann abgeschätzt werden, ob ein Molekül in BpsMIP submikromolare Affinität aufweist. Die Richtigkeit dieser Vorhersagemodelle konnte durch die Berücksichtigung dreier weiterer Deskriptoren (Konfiguration am Stereozentrum der Pipecolinsäure, Molekulargewicht und logD-Wert) deutlich verbessert werden, wobei die AUC der entsprechenden ROC-Kurven Werte bis zu 0.9 erreichte. Diese Modelle können für die Postprozessierung eines Dockings angewendet werden, um die vielversprechendsten Kandidaten zu identifizieren und anschließend in rechnerisch anspruchsvolleren MD-Simulationen genauer zu untersuchen.
Mit dieser Arbeit wurde zur Weiterentwicklung der Leitstrukturen Ref_t und Ref_p beigetragen. Viele der getesteten Derivate wiesen deutlich verbesserte Löslichkeit bei gleichbleibender Affinität auf. Ferner wurden erstmalig detailliert die Unterschiede in den Bindetaschen zwischen 32 MIP- und FKB-Proteinen evaluiert. Hiervon wurden fünf in MD-Simulationen als Apoprotein und im Komplex mit verschiedenen Inhibitoren verglichen. Anhand dieser Simulationen wurde nachgewiesen, dass jeweils eine Aminosäure in BpsMIP und LpnMIP im Vergleich zum wichtigsten „off-target“ FKBP12 selektiv durch eine Wasserstoffbrücke adressiert werden kann. Durch LIE- und MM/GBSA-Rechnungen konnte gezeigt werden, dass in diesen hochkonservierten Bindetaschen eine bedeutende Modulation der Affinität zugunsten von BpsMIP möglich ist.
The number of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) exhibiting a low solubility in aqueous media or a slow dissolution rate kept rising over the past years urging formulation scientists to explore new ways to tackle poor solubility and to enable oral absorption from such compounds. Bioavailability of poorly water-soluble compounds can be improved by increasing the dissolution rate and/or by increasing the gastro intestinal concentration through transient supersaturation. The dissolution rate of the API can be typically modified by the choice of the physical form, the polymorphic form, the powder surface area, and the local pH, while a transient supersaturation can be extended mainly by nucleation or crystallization inhibiting effects. In the present thesis, three strategies were explored to tailor the dissolution rate, the supersaturation and the hydrotropic solubilization of APIs, weak bases, respectively.
The first part of this thesis followed a bioinspired approach to extend the kinetic solubility of salts and co-crystals. API salts and co-crystals are high energy forms that can generate supersaturated solutions with respect to any more stable form, typically the most stable API form in physiological environment. The transient kinetic stabilization of supersaturated states, also termed “parachute effect”, is considered to improve bioavailability and is one aspect of the formulation that can be tailored. Inspiration from plants, which store high concentrations of aromatic bases in their vacuoles via complexation with polyphenols, sparked the evaluation to use hydroxybenzoic acid derivatives for salt or co-crystal engineering. Imatinib was chosen as the model compound for this investigation as its aromaticity and flat molecular architecture could favor interactions with hydroxybenzoic acid derivatives. One 1:1 Imatinib syringate co-crystal (I-SYA (1:1)) and one 1:2 Imatinib syringate co-crystal salt (I-SYA (1:2)) were obtained. Their dissolution assays in simulated intestinal fluid (SIF; a 50 mM phosphate buffer of pH 6.8) revealed that they formed stable solutions for several hours and days, respectively, in contrast to the marketed Imatinib mesylate salt (approx. 1h). This kinetic stability in solution was linked to the nucleation inhibition of the less soluble Imatinib hydrate by syringic acid (SYA). In solution 1H-NMR studies evidenced the aggregation of Imatinib and SYA. The amphiphilic nature of both Imatinib and SYA is considered to drive their association in solution, additionally, multiple intermolecular interactions such as hydrogen bonds and π-π stacking are likely to contribute. The association in solution enabled a phase of extended supersaturation, i.e., a parachute against desupersaturation, while no negative impact of aggregation on the permeability of both Imatinib and SYA was observed.
A prerequisite to reach supersaturation is a rapid dissolution and release of the API from the formulation. Accordingly, the second and third part of this thesis is focused on the so-called “spring effect” of amorphous solid dispersions (ASDs). The addition of a hydrotropic agent, meaning a molecule that can solubilize poorly water-soluble APIs in aqueous solutions (well-known examples of hydrotropes are benzoic acid and nicotinamide) into an amorphous Ciprofloxacin-polymer matrix led to ternary systems with a significantly faster release and higher concentration of the API in SIF as compared to binary ASDs consisting of Ciprofloxacin (CPX) and polymer only. The stronger spring could be rationalized by an improved wetting of the ASD, or/and by a hydrotropic solubilization effect, although these hypotheses need further investigation. Marked differences in the dissolution profiles of binary ASDs were observed in biorelevant fasted simulated intestinal fluid (FaSSIF; a medium containing Na taurocholate (3 mM) and lecithin (0.75 mM) at pH 6.5) as compared to SIF. In FaSSIF, API release from binary polymeric ASDs was largely improved, and the duration of supersaturation was extended. This suggests that the bile salt Na taurocholate and lecithin present in FaSSIF do improve both dissolution rate and supersaturation of ASDs, the two pillars of ASDs as oral enabling formulations. Indeed, bile salts are endogenous surfactants which, together with phospholipids, play an important role in the wetting, solubilization, and absorption of lipophilic compounds.
The aim of the third part of the present thesis was to study ASDs as formulation principles reducing the strong positive food effect of Compound A. By inclusion of Na taurocholate (NaTC) within the matrix of polymeric ASDs a significant improvement of the dissolution rate and the kinetic solubility in SIF were achieved. Transient supersaturated states of up to four orders of magnitude over the equilibrium solubility were obtained. Two ASDs were selected for further in vivo evaluation in dog. The first was a NaTC/Eudragit E based ASD meant to dissolve and release Compound A in the acidic environment of the stomach, where its solubility is the highest. The second relied on the release of Compound A in the neutral environment of the duodenum and jejunum by using an enterically dissolving polymer, HPMC-P. Releasing the API at the site of its putative absorption was an attempt to control supersaturation levels in the duodenum and to prevent portioning and thus dilution effects during transfer from the stomach. In fasted dogs, exposure from the NaTC/HPMC-P ASD was close to that of the reference Compound A formulation under fed conditions, which suggests an improved dissolution rate and kinetic solubility under fasted conditions (historical data). The exposure from the NaTC/Eudragit E ASD was twice as low as from the NaTC/HPMC-P ASD, and also lower compared to Compound A reference formulation, whereas in vitro the parachute effect of the NaTC/Eudragit E ASD was largely superior to that of the NaTC/HPMC-P ASD. A difference in the extend of the parachute could be related to differences in the thermodynamic activity of dissolved molecules from the two ASDs. Indeed, the high instability of the NaTC/HPMC-P ASD could stem from a high thermodynamic activity driving diffusion through membranes, whereas less instable solutions of NaTC/Eudragit E could indicate solubilization effects which often translate into a lower flux through the biological membrane. Additionally, the pH of the environment where dissolution takes place might be an important factor for absorption, and could also account for the difference in exposure from the two ASDs.
The aim of this thesis was to explore how the intimate environment of weak, poorly soluble bases could be functionalized to improve dissolution rate and kinetic solubility. The investigations highlighted that the performance of enabling oral delivery formulations of weak bases in aqueous media can be enhanced at different levels. At one end initial dissolution rate of ASDs can be tailored by introducing hydrotropes or/and bile salts within the polymeric matrix of ASDs. Bile salts, when combined with appropriate polymers, had also a precipitation inhibition effect enabling the maintenance of supersaturation for a bio-relevant period of time. These results set the ground for further investigations to comprehend specific interactions between bile salts and APIs, and potentially polymers at the molecular level. It will be interesting to explore how such complex systems can be exploited in the formulation design of poorly water-soluble APIs. In addition, it was observed that the duration of supersaturation generated by salts/co-crystals can be extended by the pertinent selection of counterions or coformers. The in vivo relevance of these tunings remains to be evaluated, as translation from closed, in vitro systems to the highly dynamic gastrointestinal environment is not straightforward. A better understanding of the contribution of each kinetic stage (dissolution, supersaturation, and precipitation) and their interplay with physiological factors impacting absorption is essential to facilitate the design of formulations with improved pharmacokinetics.
Einhergehend mit einer steigenden Lebenserwartung nimmt auch die Zahl der am Multiplen Myelom Erkrankten zu. Bis dato gibt es nur wenige Therapieansätze dieser selten vorkommenden Blutkrebserkrankung. Im Zusammenhang mit der Entstehung des Multiplen Myeloms stehen vor allem zwei bedeutende Hitzeschockproteine: Hsp90 und Hsp70. Beide haben die Aufgabe, Zellen vor Apoptose zu schützen. In proliferierenden Plasmazellen ist eine Überexpression an Hsp90 zu beobachten. Entwickelte Inhibitoren führten zwar zu einer verminderten Hsp90-Aktivität, allerdings wurde diese durch eine vermehrte Expression von Hsp70 kompensiert, weshalb Myelomzellen weiterhin proliferierten. Aus diesem Grund bietet sich Hsp70 als weiterer Angriffspunkt in der Therapierung des Multiplen Myeloms an. Die bislang entwickelten Inhibitoren binden entweder an die Nukleotid- oder Substratbindedomäne. Da beide Stellen unspezifisch sind, wurden durch virtuelles Screening potenzielle Inhibitoren für Hsp70 identifiziert, welche in vitro und in vivo tatsächlich Effekte hinsichtlich der Herunterregulierung von Hsp70 zeigten. Ob die entwickelten Substanzen jedoch direkt an Hsp70 binden, war die Fragestellung der vorliegenden Arbeit.
In dieser Arbeit wurde untersucht, inwiefern die entwickelten Inhibitoren an Hsp70 binden und dieses inhibieren. Die humane Hsp70-Familie besitzt sechzehn Mitglieder, die alle ähnliche Aufgaben und Strukturmerkmale aufweisen. Für die durchgeführten Versuche wurde die Hsp70-Isoform Hsc70 verwendet. In einem Protein-Ligand-Assay konnte gezeigt werden, dass die meisten Verbindungen durch Aggregatbildung zu einer Inhibition von Hsc70 führten. Durch Zugabe von Detergenz konnten die gebildeten Aggregate aufgebrochen und so der Inhibitionseffekt aufgehoben bzw. deutlich reduziert werden. Damit konnte gezeigt werden, dass die in Zell- und Mausversuchen beobachteten Effekte vermutlich nicht auf eine direkte Inhibition von Hsc70 zurückzuführen sind. Ob diese Effekte nun ebenfalls auf Aggregatbildung beruhen oder aber ein anderes Protein als das vermutete Hsc70 inhibiert wird, was über eine Signalkaskade zur Inhibition von Hsc70 führt, wäre eine interessante Fragestellung für weitere Untersuchungen.
Da sowohl in NMR-Versuchen als auch dem durchgeführten Protein-Ligand-Assay gezeigt werden konnte, dass die vormals als potenzielle Inhibitoren entwickelten Verbindungen nur schwach aktiv sind, wurde durch Fragment-basierte Ansätze eine andere Bindestelle für mögliche Inhibitoren identifiziert. Hierbei konnte N-Acetyl-D-Glucosamin in der Nukleotidbindedomäne von Hsc70 detektiert werden. Hieraus könnten sich neue Ansätze zur Entwicklung neuartiger in silico entwickelter Hsc70-Inhibitoren ergeben.
Ausgangspunkt für die Docking-Studien zur Entwicklung neuer Hsp70-Inhibitoren war die Kristallstruktur von bHsc70 ED 1-554, einer trunkierten Doppelmutante des nativen Hsc70. Bis dato ist diese 554 Aminosäuren umfassende Mutante die einzige Hsc70-Variante von der die Zweidomänenstruktur kristallisiert werden konnte. Für dieses Konstrukt wurde zunächst ein optimiertes Aufreinigungsprotokoll entwickelt, um dann Kristallisationsversuche mit ausgewählten AH-Verbindungen, die in den Docking-Studien entwickelt wurden, durchzuführen. Hierbei konnte jedoch keine Bindung festgestellt werden. Die Kristallisation mit Ver-155008, einem bekannten Hsc70-Inhibitor, führte jedoch zur ersten Zweidomänenstruktur von Hsc70 mit gebundenem Ver-155008.
Neben der obigen Fragestellung wurde außerdem untersucht, wie funktional aktiv das trunkierte Hsc70-Konstrukts ist. Hier zeigte sich, dass aufgrund des fehlenden C-Terminus zwar eine geringe Aktivität von 30 % im Vergleich zur Volllänge zu beobachten war. Für eine nahezu vollständige Rückfaltungsaktivität ist aber der C-Terminus essentiell. Weiterhin konnte in ITC-Versuchen der Kd-Wert von Ver-155008 an die verwendete Mutante ermittelt werden, der dem bereits bekannten Kd von Ver-155008 an das native Hsc70 ähnlich ist.