Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To develop a high performance liquid chromatography method for determination of free PEG in PEG-rhIFN-β-1a injection. METHODS Phenomenex Jupiter C
4 column was used with a mobile phase of gradient elution (A phase-0.1% trifluoroacetic acid-water; B phase: 0.1% trifluoroacetic acid-acetonitrile), gradient elution. The flow rate was 1.0 mL·min
?1, and column temperature was 25 ℃. Evaporation light detector(ELSD), drift tube temperature was 113.0 ℃, and carrier gas flow rate of 3.1 L·min
?1. RESULTS PEG concentration in the range of 0.6-2.0 μg·mL
?1 showed good linearity, correlation coefficient was 0.998 4, detection limit was 0.20 μg , quantitation limit was 0.40 μg, the RSD of precision, stability and reproducibility were all <2.0%. The average recovery was from 96% to 100%. CONCLUSION Using this method, the free PEG in PEG-rhIFN-β-1a injection is determined by this method and the free PEG is <1.0%.