Development of a high-throughput online solid-phase extraction/tandem mass spectrometry method for cytochrome P450 inhibition screening

J Biomol Screen. 2010 Apr;15(4):447-52. doi: 10.1177/1087057110362581. Epub 2010 Mar 5.

Abstract

A high-throughput online solid-phase extraction/tandem mass spectrometry (online SPE/MS/MS) system has been developed to support rapid evaluation of drug discovery compounds for possible drug-drug interaction (DDI). Each compound is evaluated for its DDI potential by incubating over a range of 8 test concentrations and against a panel of 6 cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes, 1A2, 2C8, 2C9, 2C19, 2D6, and 3A4. Previously, a postassay pooling and a 2-min gradient LC/MS/MS method had been reported to increase sample throughput, allowing for a 96-well plate of samples to be analyzed in under 4 h. The development of a new online SPE/MS/MS system has reduced the analysis time to less than 15 min per 96-well plate, translating to a 15-fold time savings compared to the 2-min LC/MS/MS method. Sampling precision without internal standard correction ranged from 3.1% to 5.6% relative standard deviation, and the carryover was determined to be between 1.0% and 4.1%. One hundred twenty in-house compounds were assayed and pooled for analyses using both the online SPE/MS/MS and LC/MS/MS, and the correlation coefficients ranged from 0.89 to 1.13, when comparing the IC(50) results obtained from the 2 approaches for each of the CYP enzymes.

MeSH terms

  • Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors*
  • Enzyme Inhibitors / pharmacology*
  • High-Throughput Screening Assays / methods*
  • Inhibitory Concentration 50
  • Online Systems*
  • Reference Standards
  • Solid Phase Extraction / methods*
  • Tandem Mass Spectrometry / methods*

Substances

  • Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
  • Enzyme Inhibitors