Rapid quantification and validation of lipid concentrations within liposomes

Carla B. Roces; Elisabeth Kastner; Peter Stone; Deborah Lowry; Yvonne Perrie

doi:10.3390/pharmaceutics8030029

Rapid quantification and validation of lipid concentrations within liposomes

Carla B. Roces, Elisabeth Kastner, Peter Stone, Deborah Lowry, Yvonne Perrie^*

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Aston Pharmacy School

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Abstract

Quantification of the lipid content in liposomal adjuvants for subunit vaccine formulation is of extreme importance, since this concentration impacts both efficacy and stability. In this paper, we outline a high performance liquid chromatography-evaporative light scattering detector (HPLC-ELSD) method that allows for the rapid and simultaneous quantification of lipid concentrations within liposomal systems prepared by three liposomal manufacturing techniques (lipid film hydration, high shear mixing, and microfluidics). The ELSD system was used to quantify four lipids: 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC), cholesterol, dimethyldioctadecylammonium (DDA) bromide, and D-(+)-trehalose 6,6′-dibehenate (TDB). The developed method offers rapidity, high sensitivity, direct linearity, and a good consistency on the responses (R² > 0.993 for the four lipids tested). The corresponding limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantification (LOQ) were 0.11 and 0.36 mg/mL (DMPC), 0.02 and 0.80 mg/mL (cholesterol), 0.06 and 0.20 mg/mL (DDA), and 0.05 and 0.16 mg/mL (TDB), respectively. HPLC-ELSD was shown to be a rapid and effective method for the quantification of lipids within liposome formulations without the need for lipid extraction processes.

Original language	English
Article number	29
Journal	Pharmaceutics
Volume	8
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics8030029
Publication status	Published - 13 Sept 2016

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© 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Funding: EPSRC (EP/I033270/1); EU Horizon 2020 (643381); and the EPSRC and the BBSRC (Industrial Case Award BB/L017245/1).

Data can be found at DOI: 10.15129/4338bb40-6f84-4dde-b275-6f1656cc5c05.

Keywords

cholesterol
ELSD
HPLC
lipids
liposomes
quantification

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