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Assessing the Photo-degradation of Biopharmaceutical Compounds by HPLC-DAD (CAT#: STEM-B-0399-CJ)

Introduction

All biopharmaceutical compounds are sensitive towards chemical degradation. Examples are deamidation, hydrolysis, oxidation, photo-degradation, disulfide-scrambling, and others. Chemical degradation can lead to aggregation, charge variants and/or structural changes of the drug substance and eventually impair the effectivity or safety of the therapy.




Principle

cIEF is based on the principle of capillary gel electrophoresis (cGE). In general, electrophoresis is a separation technique based on the migration of charged molecules in response to an electric field, toward the electrode of opposite charge. It is performed mainly in polyacrylamide gels. To separate molecules based on pI, a pH gradient inside the gel is established by ampholyte mixtures. The molecule of interest migrates along the electrical field until it reaches the pH corresponding to its pI, where it has a net charge of zero and stops migrating. The UV absorption over the whole capillary is measured throughout the separation, allowing real-time observation as well as a final quantification.

Applications

Biopharmaceutica

Procedure

1. Sample preparation.
2. The sample is injected at the sample injection. The high pressure pump drives the solvent to carry the sample to go through the column with absorbent. Different compounds will receive different resistance when they go through the column.
3. Download and analyse data.

Materials

• Sample: Peptides, Proteins, Vaccines, Virus-like particles
• Equipment: HPLC system equipped with DAD