title: Effect of structure modification of chondroitin sulfate C on its enantioselectivity to basic drugs in capillary electrophoresis.
abstract: The effect of structure modification of chondroitin sulfate C on its enantioselectivity to several representative basic drugs in capillary electrophoresis was investigated. Chemical desulfation showed no remarkable decrease in selectivity, whereas depolymerization with chondroitinase ABC resulted in complete loss of selectivity. Comparison with chondroitin sulfate A indicated considerable decrease in selectivity with this isomer. The great retention of enantioselectivity in the desulfated derivative suggests that the selectivity comes from the difference of the magnitude of an interaction in the multipoint mechanism between a part of the drug molecule and a functional group in chondroitin sulfate C other than the sulfate group. The sulfate group is not considered to play a major role for chiral separation. The complete loss of selectivity by depolymerization is consistent with a general tendency of lower selectivity in smaller saccharides, and the priority of chondroitin sulfate C to chondroitin sulfate A suggests the importance of the hydroxyl group at C4 in the galactosamine residue. During the course of this work we observed heavy tailing of the peaks of basic drugs in some batches of uncoated fused-silica capillaries under acidic conditions and solved this problem by doubly coating capillaries with Polybrene followed by chondroitin sulfate C. On the other hand, we demonstrated the usefulness of a special technique which uses a short, wider bore PTFE tube-attached capillary for the study of the effect of depolymerization, in order to minimize sample amount.
authors.affiliation: Department of Analytical Chemistry, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing.
authors.forename: Yingxiang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Taga
authors.forename: Shigeo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Wenying
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Susumu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Honda
mesh_terms: D002236:Carbohydrate Conformation; D019765:Chondroitin ABC Lyase / Q000737:chemistry; D002809:Chondroitin Sulfates / Q000737:chemistry*; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000379:methods*; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000737:chemistry*; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations; D002809:Chondroitin Sulfates; D019765:Chondroitin ABC Lyase