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Preparation and characterization of amphiphilic lipopeptide nanosuspension lyophilized powder

  • Mengqiu ZHANG Huijuan JIN Fangling GONG Youhong ZHANG Yi WEI Yuxian HE Guanghui MA
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  • 1. School of Environmental Ecology and Bioengineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430205, China 2. State Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China 3. MOH Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100190, China

Received date: 2020-04-30

  Revised date: 2020-05-27

  Online published: 2021-04-28

Abstract

AIDS has spread widely and become a serious public health problem around the world. Membrane fusion inhibitor LP-98 shows strong antiviral activity among the anti-AIDS drugs under study in China, and has broad clinical application prospects. However, the clinical application of LP-98 is limited by its low solubility and poor suspension ability in aqueous phase, which could lead to blocked needle during injection and patient's pain. To improve solubility of LP-98, high-pressure homogenization technology was used to prepare LP-98 nanosuspension lyophilized powder (LP-98 NSLP). The optimal preparation process was as follow: the optimum stabilizer was sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), the concentration of SDS was 0.80wt%, the high-pressure homogenization pressure was 150 MPa, and it was repeated 5 times. The physical and chemical characterization and pharmacokinetics study of LP-98 NSLP were investigated. The LP-98 nanosuspension lyophilized powder had an average particle size of 261.5±1.1 nm and a Zeta potential of ?31.5±0.2 mV. Circular dichroism spectrometer and single-cycle virus infection experiments showed that the structure and biological activity of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) were unchanged. The pharmacokinetic results showed that the bioavailability of the LP-98 NSLP was 98.1% of API. The solubility of LP-98 in water has been increased from 184 μg/mL to 1733 μg/mL, which was 8 times higher than that of the API. The drug activity in the LP-98 nanosuspension lyophilized powder was well preserved, and the solubility of the drug was improved. As a result it solved the problem of blocked needle during injection due to poor suspension of LP-98, hence reduced patient's pain. This research promoted the development of LP-98 application in clinical.

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Mengqiu ZHANG Huijuan JIN Fangling GONG Youhong ZHANG Yi WEI Yuxian HE Guanghui MA . Preparation and characterization of amphiphilic lipopeptide nanosuspension lyophilized powder[J]. The Chinese Journal of Process Engineering, 2021 , 21(4) : 463 -470 . DOI: 10.12034/j.issn.1009-606X.220144

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