Good reliabili
ty of Caco-2 permeabili
ty s
tudies requirescompe
ten
t sampling and analy
tical me
thods
to ensure
thecomparabili
ty of day-
to-day experimen
ts. In
this work,
two
n-in-one LC/MS/MS me
thods based on
two differen
tioniza
tion
techniques were developed and valida
ted for agroup of reference compounds; eigh
t of
them are recommended by
the Food and Drug Adminis
tra
tion (FDA) for
the evalua
tion of oral drug permeabili
ty. The performanceof a new ioniza
tion
technique, a
tmospheric pressurepho
toioniza
tion (APPI), as an in
terface for quan
ti
ta
tiveLC/MS analysis was evalua
ted in comparison
to
theelec
trospray ioniza
tion (ESI). Generally,
the valida
tionparame
ters, including sensi
tivi
ty, accuracy, and repea
tabili
ty, were comparable for
the APPI and ESI me
thods.The main difference was
tha
t the linear quan
ti
ta
tive rangeof APPI was 3-4 orders of magni
tude (
r2 ti
ties/ge.gif"> 0.998)whereas in ESI i
t was
typically 2-3 orders of magni
tude(
r2 ti
ties/ge.gif"> 0.990). By
the APPI and ESI me
thods,
the simul
taneous analysis of nine highly he
terogeneous compoundswas achieved wi
thin 5.5-7 min, which leads
to significan
tsavings in
time and cos
t of
the analyses. The successfulvalida
tion da
ta indica
te
the usefulness of bo
th
the me
thods for
the rapid and sensi
tive (LOD values
typically
ti
ties/le.gif">5nM)
tes
ting of drug
transpor
t across
the Caco-2 monolayers, and af
ter case-specific modifica
tion,
the me
thodsenable
the permeabili
ty screening of new drug candida
tes.The applicabili
ty and reliabili
ty of bo
th me
thods wasdemons
tra
ted wi
th a real ba
tch of Caco-2 samples, eachproviding similar values of apparen
t permeabili
ty (
Papp).In addi
tion,
the individual permeabili
ties of
the compounds in
the cock
tail experimen
ts correla
ted closely
to
the ones ob
tained from single-compound experimen
ts.