Purity determination of synthetic glucagon using a mass balance approach

Scientific Reports
Xinxue WangDewei Song

Abstract

Due to the widespread use of synthetic peptide drugs, their quantification and the analysis of impurities have become increasingly important in clinical and medical settings. Moreover, quantifying proteins using synthetic peptides as internal or external standards is a general approach, and the key to this approach is the knowing purities of the peptides. In this paper, synthetic glucagon was quantified using a mass balance method. The impurities in glucagon were analyzed and then accurately quantified separately. Karl Fischer (KF) titration and ion chromatography (IC) were used to determine the water and trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) contents in the samples, respectively. Furthermore, the inorganic ion content in the samples was determined by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The sequence of peptide impurities was identified by a Thermo Fisher Orbitrap mass. Samples were determined to be 896.36 ± 0.68 mg/g after subtracting all impurity masses from the sample mass. The result can be traced to SI units.

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