Uekusa Taiga, Watanabe Tomohiro, Watanabe Daiju, Sugano Kiyohiko
Molecular Pharmaceutics Lab., College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, 1-1-1, Noji-higasi, Kusatsu 525-8577, Shiga, Japan.
Pharmaceutics. 2022 Nov 22;14(12):2560. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics14122560.
The purpose of the present study was to experimentally confirm the thermodynamic correlation between the intrinsic liquid−liquid phase separation (LLPS) concentration (S0LLPS) and crystalline solubility (S0c) of drug-like molecules. Based on the thermodynamic principles, the crystalline solubility LLPS concentration melting point (Tm) equation (CLME) was derived (log10S0C=log10S0LLPS−0.0095Tm−310 for 310 K). The S0LLPS values of 31 drugs were newly measured by simple bulk phase pH-shift or solvent-shift precipitation tests coupled with laser-assisted visual turbidity detection. To ensure the precipitant was not made crystalline at <10 s, the precipitation tests were also performed under the polarized light microscope. The calculated and observed log10S0C values showed a good correlation (root mean squared error: 0.40 log unit, absolute average error: 0.32 log unit).
本研究的目的是通过实验证实类药物分子的固有液-液相分离(LLPS)浓度(S0LLPS)与结晶溶解度(S0c)之间的热力学相关性。基于热力学原理,推导了结晶溶解度-LLPS浓度-熔点(Tm)方程(CLME)(对于310 K,log10S0C = log10S0LLPS - 0.0095Tm - 310)。通过简单的本体相pH值变化或溶剂变化沉淀试验结合激光辅助视觉浊度检测,新测量了31种药物的S0LLPS值。为确保沉淀剂在<10秒内不结晶,还在偏光显微镜下进行了沉淀试验。计算得到的和观察到的log10S0C值显示出良好的相关性(均方根误差:0.40对数单位,绝对平均误差:0.32对数单位)。