基于LC-MiniMS同时定量分析全血中5种免疫抑制剂

Simultaneous Quantitative Analysis of Five Immunosuppressants in Whole Blood Using LC-MiniMS

  • 摘要: 为解决免疫抑制剂的临床治疗药物监测对昂贵、集中化质谱平台的依赖问题,本研究开发并验证了一种基于自主研发的小型液相色谱-离子阱质谱(LC-MiniMS)系统的多组分分析方法,旨在同步、快速、准确地测定人全血中5种临床常用的免疫抑制剂。该方法采用蛋白沉淀法,经响应面法系统优化质谱参数和前处理条件,从进样到完成检测仅需9 min,其线性范围、定量限、准确度(93.49%~113.64%)、精密度(0.87%~11.92%)和稳定性均能够满足临床监测的要求。为验证检测结果的准确性,同时在LC-MiniMS与QTRAP 6500+仪器上对30例临床样本进行比对分析,2种仪器得到的结果具有良好的一致性。本方法简便、可靠且性能与传统质谱平台相当,展示了小型质谱平台在临床治疗药物监测领域的竞争优势与应用潜力,为推动质谱分析走向分布式应用提供了有力的实验依据。

     

    Abstract: Therapeutic drug monitoring of immunosuppressants is essential for organ transplant recipients, yet routine testing still relies heavily on centralized, costly mass spectrometry platforms. To improve the accessibility of decentralized clinical testing, a rapid multicomponent assay for five commonly used immunosuppressants in human whole blood was developed and validated using a self-built miniature liquid chromatography-ion trap mass spectrometry (LC-MiniMS) system. Protein precipitation was adopted as the sample preparation strategy, and response surface methodology was used to systematically optimize key pretreatment and mass spectrometric parameters. Under optimized conditions, the method required only 9 min from injection to completion of analysis. The assay was validated in terms of selectivity, linearity, sensitivity, accuracy, precision, matrix effect, and stability. Good linearity was obtained across the required concentration ranges for tacrolimus, sirolimus, mycophenolic acid, everolimus, and cyclosporine A, with all correlation coefficients greater than 0.99. The limits of quantification were adequate for clinical monitoring, and the accuracy and precision at low, medium, and high quality control levels met the acceptance criteria for therapeutic drug monitoring. The normalized matrix factors remained close to unity, indicating that the method effectively minimized endogenous matrix interference in whole blood. Stability assessment showed that the analytes exhibited acceptable stablity under short-term storage, repeated freeze-thaw cycles, and long-term frozen storage conditions. To further verify clinical applicability, 30 real whole-blood samples were analyzed in parallel on LC-MiniMS and a QTRAP 6500+ platform. The two platforms exhibited good agreement, confirming that the miniature platform could provide reliable quantitative results comparable to those of a conventional laboratory mass spectrometer. Overall, this work demonstrated that LC-MiniMS enables rapid, accurate, and practical multianalyte therapeutic drug monitoring in whole blood. The approach not only reduced dependence on centralized instrumentation but also provided a feasible pathway toward point-of-care and distributed mass spectrometric testing. Although the present study focused on five immunosuppressants in whole blood, the workflow and optimization strategy could be extended to other clinically relevant drug panels and sample types. This work also highlighted several practical advantages. The method uses a simple protein precipitation workflow rather than a labor-intensive extraction procedure, which shortens turnaround time and lowers the barrier to routine use. The response-surface optimization strategy improved analytical sensitivity while maintaining run stability, indicating that the same framework could be adapted for other multianalyte assays on miniature instruments.

     

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