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Published on: April 21, 2017
Separation and quantitative analysis of alkyl sulfobetaine-type detergents by high-performance liquid chromatography
Laurence Zanna1, Jean-François Haeuw
1Centre d'Immunologie Pierre Fabre, 5 Avenue Napoléon III, BP 497, 74160 Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, France.
Abstract:
An improved high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method for the separation of zwitterionic detergents is described. It is based on a reversed-phase liquid chromatography with evaporative light-scattering detection (ELSD). The method was shown to be highly specific, allowing the separation of three detergents of the alkyl sulfobetaine family: 3-(N-dodecyl-N,N-dimethyl-ammonio)-propane-1-sulfonate (SB12), 3-(N-tetradecyl-N,N-dimethyl-ammonio)-propane-1-sulfonate (SB14) and 3-(N-hexadecyl-N,N-dimethyl-ammonio)-propane-1-sulfonate (SB16). It was further used to develop a quantitation method for SB14, which was validated for linearity, precision, robustness, limits of detection and quantitation, specificity and accuracy. Linearity was found in the range of 50-500 microg/ml with a correlation coefficient of 0.9938+/-0.0029. The mean value of slope and intercept were 1.567+/-0.06 and 0.1541+/-0.0271, respectively. The limits of detection (LOD) and quantitation (LOQ) were 2 and 10 microg/ml, respectively. The validated method was used to determine the concentration of SB14 in different biological samples, specially in bulks of a recombinant membrane protein, the Klebsiella pneumoniae outer membrane protein A, which is produced at the pilot scale for human clinical studies.
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