Validation and application of a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometric method for the determination of...

A liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometric (LC-MS/MS) method was developed and validated for the determination of GDC-0152 in human plasma to support clinical development. The method consisted of a solid-phase extraction for sample preparation and LC-MS/MS analysis in the positive ion mode using TurboIonSpray(TM) for analysis. d(7) -GDC-0152 was used as the internal standard. A linear regression (weighted 1/concentration(2) ) was used to fit calibration curves over the concentration range of 0.02-10.0 ng/mL for GDC-0152. There were no endogenous interference components in the blank human plasma tested. The accuracy at the lower limit of quantitation was 99.3% with a precision (%CV) of 13.9%. For quality control samples at 0.0600, 2.00 and 8.00 ng/mL, the between-run %CV was ≤8.64. Between-run percentage accuracy ranged from 98.2 to 99.6%. GDC-0152 was stable in human plasma for 363 days at -20°C and for 659 days at -70°C storage. GDC-0152 was stable in human plasma at room temperature for up to 25 h and through three freeze-thaw cycles. In whole blood, GDC-0152 was stable for 12 h at 4°C and at ambient temperature. This validated LC-MS/MS method for determination of GDC-0152 was used to support clinical studies.