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Int J Pharm ; 628: 122306, 2022 Nov 25.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36265662

ABSTRACT

Freezing techniques are an essential part of biologics manufacturing processes, yet the formation of ice/water interfaces can impart detrimental effects on proteins. However, the absence of chemical and structural differences between ice and liquid water poses the question as to why ice can destabilize proteins. We hypothesize that the destabilizing stress of the ice-liquid water interface does not originate from the ice-water system itself but rather from the air microbubbles present during the freezing process. As the temperature decreases, the dissolved air is expelled from the ice crystal lattices in the form of microbubbles and is subsequently trapped by the advancing ice front. This newly formed air-water interface represents an additional interfacial area for the proteins to be adsorbed onto and denatured. The result showed that freezing at âˆ¼ 1 K/s led to the formation of small circular microbubbles with diameters ranging from 100 µm to 500 µm. In contrast, slower freezing resulted in the formation of larger, elongated millimeter-size bubbles. The reduction of the number of microbubbles was carried out by the deaeration process using agitation under reduced pressure at 20 kPa. The resulting deaerated (i.e., low dissolved air) protein samples were frozen and monitored for the formation of subvisible aggregates using micro-flow imaging (MFI). The results demonstrated that deaerating the samples prior to intermediate freezing (i.e., TFF) reduced the number of aggregates for both highly surface-active and low surface-active proteins (lactoferrin and bovine IgG, respectively). This reduction was more pronounced in spray freeze drying (SFD) than thin-film freezing (TFF), and less apparent in conventional lyophilization.


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Ice , Microbubbles , Cattle , Animals , Freezing , Freeze Drying , Proteins/chemistry
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Beilstein J Org Chem ; 15: 2830-2839, 2019.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31807218

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A two-step palladium-catalyzed procedure based on Suzuki-Miyaura cross coupling, followed by a double Buchwald-Hartwig reaction, allows for the synthesis of pharmaceutically relevant benzo[4,5]furo[3,2-b]indoles in moderate to very good yield. The synthesized compounds have been analyzed with regard to their inhibitory activity (IC50) of nucleotide pyrophosphatases h-NPP1 and h-NPP3. The activity lies in the nanomolar range. The results were rationalized based on docking studies.

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