Remote loading of sparingly water-soluble drugs into liposomes

a technology of liposomes and water-soluble drugs, applied in the field of pharmaceutical compositions, can solve the problems of large loss of active compounds, and achieve the effect of high functional compound-lipid ratio and cost efficiency

Inactive Publication Date: 2014-08-07
ZONEONE PHARMA
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[0029]In utilizing liposomes for delivery of functional compounds, it is generally desirable to load the liposomes to high concentration, resulting in a high functional-compound-lipid mass ratio, since this reduces the amount of liposomes to be administered per treatment to attain the required therapeutic effect, all the more since several lipids used in liposomes have a dose-limiting toxicity by themselves. The loading percentage is also of importance for cost efficiency, since poor loading results in a great loss of the active compound.

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The loading percentage is also of importance for cost efficiency, since poor loading results in a great loss of the active compound.

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Carfilzomib Liposome Entrapment by Remote Loading

Materials and Method

[0120]Ammonium sulfate solution was prepared by dissolving ammonium sulfate solid to a final concentration of 250 mM (500 mequivilents of anion / L) no pH adjustment was made to yield a final pH of 5.6. Sodium sulfate solution (250 mM) was prepared by adding 0.35 g sodium sulfate to 10 mL deionized water.

[0121]The liposomes were formed by extrusion. Lipids were dissolved in ethanol at a concentration of 500 mM HSPC (591 mg / mL total lipid) at 65° C. and the 9 volumes of the trapping agent solution heated to 65° C. was added to the ethanol / lipid solution also at 65° C. The mixture was vortexed and transferred to a 10 mL thermostatically controlled (65° C.) Lipex Extruder. The liposomes were formed by extruding 10 times through polycarbonate membranes having 0.1 um pores. After extrusion the liposomes were cooled on ice. The transmembrane electrochemical gradient was formed by purification of the liposomes by dialysis i...

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Comparison of Liposome Trapping Agents

Introduction

[0126]Liposomes to be used for remote loading are formed in an ionic solution that is intended to complex the loaded drug as a salt. Trapping agents can form complexes with loaded drugs and the stability of this complex is one factor that dictates liposome drug loading ability, stability and drug release rates. Comparison of different liposome trapping agents was made by evaluating the efficiency of carfilzomib loading.

Methods

[0127]Three liposome formulations were used, all at a molar ratio 3 HSPC / 2 Chol / 0.15 PEG-DSPE each with a different trapping agent: 1. mellitic acid; 2. ammonium sulfate; and 3. napthelene disulfononic acid.

[0128]Mellitic acid (MA) was dissolved in water and titrated with diethylamine to a final pH of 5.5 and concentration of 83 mM (500 mequivilents of anion / L). Ammonium sulfate was prepared by dissolving ammonium sulfate solid to a final concentration of 250 mM (500 mequivilents of anion / L) no pH adjustment was...

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Comparison of Method for Introducing Drug

Method

[0134]A comparison of the method used for addition of the drug to the liposomes during the loading procedure. The loading procedure was the same as described above in Example 1 with the exception of the drug being added to the liposome loading solution as a solid powder, followed by the addition of DMSO to a final concentration of 2% (vol / vol), as a 10 mg / mL DMSO solution quickly and as 10 mg / mL DMSO solution slowly (both at a final DMSO content of 2% (vol / vol).

Results

[0135]The efficiency of carfilzomib remote loading into liposomes at 100 g drug / mol of HSPC lipid for the drug which was first added as the solid powder was 3.88%±0.053% and 3.47%±0.030% when heated to 65° C. for 30 and 120 min respectively. The efficiency of loading the drug from initial stock solutions of 10 mg / mL DMSO solution was 97.0%±2.38% when the drug / DMSO was added quickly and 96.3%±1.09% when the drug / DMSO was added in 5 increments over 1 min to a liposome soluti...

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Abstract

The present invention provides liposome compositions containing sparingly soluble drugs that are used to treat life-threatening diseases. A preferred method of encapsulating a drug inside a liposome is by remote or active loading. Remote loading of a drug into liposomes containing a transmembrane electrochemical gradient is initiated by co-mixing a liposome suspension with a solution of drug, whereby the neutral form of the compound freely enters the liposome and becomes electrostatically charged thereby preventing the reverse transfer out of the liposome. There is a continuous build-up of compound within the liposome interior until the electrochemical gradient is dissipated or all the drug is encapsulated in the liposome. However, this process as described in the literature has been limited to drugs that are freely soluble in aqueous solution or solubilized as a water-soluble complex. This invention describes compositions and methods for remote loading drugs with low water solubility (<2 mg / mL). In the preferred embodiment the drug in the solubilizing agent is mixed with the liposomes in aqueous suspension so that the concentration of solubilizing agent is lowered to below its capacity to completely solubilize the drug. This results in the drug precipitating but remote loading capability is retained. The process is scalable and, in liposomes in which the lipid composition and remote loading agent are optimized, the resulting drug-loaded liposomes are characterized by a high drug-to-lipid ratios and prolonged drug retention when the liposome encapsulated drug is administered to a subject.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]The present application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 759,914 filed Feb. 1, 2013, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety for all purposes.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]This invention relates to the fields of pharmaceutical compositions, methods for making them and the uses of the resulting compositions in drug therapy. The pharmaceutical compositions include the active therapeutic agent encapsulated within the aqueous interior of a liposome vesicle.DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART[0003]The pharmaceutical industry, in its quest for improved drugs, has generated a large number of potent compounds that are sparingly soluble in water, the ubiquitous solvent that makes life possible. The low water solubility of these new drugs has made it difficult to deliver them in animals including humans. This has created the need for drug delivery systems that can solubilize spari...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A61K9/127A61K38/07
CPCA61K38/07A61K9/1278A61K9/0019A61K9/19A61K31/5377A61K31/4196A61K31/496A61K9/127A61K9/1277A61K47/02A61K47/18A61K9/1271A61K9/1275B01J13/08
Inventor HAYES, MARK E.NOBLE, CHARLES O.SZOKA, JR., FRANCIS C.
Owner ZONEONE PHARMA
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