Detecção do composto iqg-607 : uma etapa essencial para futuros estudos de farmacocinética

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) caused predominantly by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an infectious disease responsible for a significantly number of deaths worldwide. The first line TB drugs that are currently used, and others available, present several problems, such as duration and complexity of treatment, and adverse effects, factors that decrease the patient adherence to treatment regimen. These problems increase the number of cases of drug resistant TB. The pentacyano(isoniazid)ferrate(II) (IQG-607) compound is an inorganic complex designed to treat INH-resistant strains of M. tuberculosis containing mutations in catalase-peroxidase gene, katG. The compound appears to be a promising anti-TB drug candidate according to previous studies that demonstrated its effectiveness both in vitro and in vivo. However, the difficulties encountered in the development of an analytical method for detection and quantification of the compound, due to its chemical properties, were impeding further studies, such as the pharmacokinetic studies. In this context, the present study describes two analytical methods for the detection of IQG-607 for the first time. The voltammetric method was shown to be a powerful analytical tool for quantification of IQG-607 and may be used to monitoring the stability and quality control. The proposed method, together with enzymatic inhibition assay, shown that the IQG-607 is stable for at least 1week at 4 ºC. The detection of IQG-607 by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was also described, and we were able to observe the retention of the compound on the stationary phase of a chromatography column for the first time in this work. In addition, the analysis of IQG-607 in mouse plasma by HPLC was also demonstrated. Therefore, this conventional method will be optimized and validated to conduct pharmacokinetics studies.