Abstract
The bile salt export pump (BSEP) assay is widely used to evaluate the potential for drug-induced liver injury (DILI) early in the drug discovery process. While traditional liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based approaches have been utilized for BSEP activity testing, they have intrinsic limitations in either throughput or the requirement for sample preparation and are difficult to scale up in order to screen drug candidates. Here we demonstrate the use of two different high-throughput MS methods based on solid-phase extraction (SPE) and desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) for high-throughput BSEP activity assessment in a label-free manner, with minimal needs for sample workup, at sampling rates of ∼11 and ∼5.5 s/sample, respectively. Both approaches were validated, compared, and successfully applied to the evaluation of 96 drug candidates for the inhibition of taurocholic acid (TCA) transport using BSEP vesicles.
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