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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Development, Validation, and Comparison of Two Mass Spectrometry Methods (LC-MS/HRMS and LC-MS/MS) for the Quantification of Rituximab in Human Plasma.

Aurélien Millet, Nihel Khoudour, Dorothée Lebert, Christelle Machon, Benjamin Terrier, Benoit Blanchet, Jérôme Guitton

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Aurélien MilletBiochemistry and Pharmacology-Toxicology Laboratory, Lyon-Sud Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, F-69495 Pierre Bénite, France.
Nihel KhoudourDepartment of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacochemistry, Cochin Hospital, AP-HP, CARPEM 75014 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-8269-9817
Dorothée LebertPromise Proteomics, 7 Parvis Louis Néel, F-38040 Grenoble, France.
Christelle MachonBiochemistry and Pharmacology-Toxicology Laboratory, Lyon-Sud Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, F-69495 Pierre Bénite, France.ORCID 0000-0002-4494-8034
Benjamin TerrierDepartment of Internal Medicine, National Referral Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris-Centre (APHP-CUP), University of Paris, F-75014 Paris, France.
Benoit BlanchetDepartment of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacochemistry, Cochin Hospital, AP-HP, CARPEM 75014 Paris, France.
Jérôme GuittonBiochemistry and Pharmacology-Toxicology Laboratory, Lyon-Sud Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, F-69495 Pierre Bénite, France.
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · FRCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRHôpital Cochin · FRInserm · FR

Funding

Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Madmas project in Proof of concept
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rituximab is a chimeric immunoglobulin G1-kappa (IgG1κ) antibody targeting the CD20 antigen on B-lymphocytes. Its applications are various, such as for the treatment of chronic lymphoid leukemia or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in oncology, and it can also be used in the treatment of certain autoimmune diseases. Several studies support the interest in therapeutic drug monitoring to optimize dosing regimens of rituximab. Thus, two different laboratories have developed accurate and reproductive methods to quantify rituximab in human plasma: one using liquid chromatography quadripolar tandem mass spectrometer (LC-MS/MS) and the other, liquid chromatography orbitrap tandem mass spectrometer (LC-MS/HRMS). For both assays, quantification was based on albumin depletion or IgG-immunocapture, surrogate peptide analysis, and full-length stable isotope-labeled rituximab. With LC-MS/MS, the concentration range was from 5 to 500 µg/mL, the within- and between-run precisions were <8.5%, and the limit of quantitation was 5 µg/mL. With LC-MS/HRMS, the concentration range was from 10 to 200 µg/mL, the within- and between-run accuracy were <11.5%, and the limit of quantitation was 2 µg/mL. Rituximab plasma concentrations from 63 patients treated for vasculitis were compared. Bland-Altman analysis and Passing-Bablok regression showed the interchangeability between these two methods. Overall, these methods were robust and reliable and could be applied to routine clinical samples.

Indexed as

Antineoplastic Agents, ImmunologicalChromatography, LiquidDrug MonitoringHumansIsotope LabelingLymphomaReproducibility of ResultsRituximabSpectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-IonizationTandem Mass SpectrometryVasculitisAntineoplastic Agents, ImmunologicalRituximabalbumin depletionIgG-immunocaptureorbitrap mass spectrometerpharmacokineticsquadripolar mass spectrometerrituximab

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PMID33806585
PMCPMC7961417
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