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Biomolecules such as serum proteins can interact with drugs in the body and influence their pharmaceutical effects. Specific and precise methods that analyze these interactions are critical for drug development or monitoring and for diagnostic purposes. Affinity capillary electrophoresis (ACE) is one technique that can be used to examine the binding between drugs and serum proteins, or other agents found in serum or blood. This article will review the basic principles of ACE, along with related affinity-based CE methods, and examine recent developments that have occurred in this field as related to the characterization of drug-protein interactions. An overview will be given of the various formats that can be used in ACE and CE for such work, including the relative advantages or weaknesses of each approach. Various applications of ACE and affinity-based CE methods for the analysis of drug interactions with serum proteins and other binding agents will also be presented. Applications of ACE and related techniques that will be discussed include drug interaction studies with serum agents, chiral drug separations employing serum proteins, and the use of CE in hybrid methods to characterize drug binding with serum proteins.
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Studies and analysis of drug-target interactions by affinity chromatography and related techniques: A review
The characterization of drug-target interactions is a key component of drug discovery, testing, and development. Affinity chromatography is one approach that can be used for this type of analysis. For instance, this may be done by using an immobilized target as a stationary phase and a drug as the applied solute. This review will discuss the various ways in which affinity chromatographic methods have been used to examine drug-target interactions, with an emphasis on high-performance methods. The general principles of this approach and factors to consider in its use for drug-target interaction analysis will first be examined. Methods based on zonal elution or frontal analysis for binding and competition studies will then be discussed. Various techniques for kinetic studies will next be considered, along with approaches that employ secondary binding agents and hybrid techniques. In each case, the general principles and theory of an approach will be given along with examples of its use in drug-target interaction studies. Advantages or limitations of each approach will be provided as well. This information should make it possible in the future to extend these techniques to other drug-target systems of interest in biomedical research and drug testing or development.
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- PAR ID:
- 10668284
- Publisher / Repository:
- Elsevier
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 2
- ISSN:
- 2095-1779
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 101407
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- Affinity chromatography High-performance affinity chromatography Drug-target interactions Drug-Protein binding Kinetic analysis Biointeraction analysis
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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