Validation and application of a liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometric method for the determination of GDC‐0834 and its metabolite in human plasma using semi‐automated 96‐well protein precipitation

Abstract

A liquid chromatographic-tandem mass spectrometric (LC-MS/MS) method was developed and validated for the determination of GDC-0834 and its amide hydrolysis metabolite (M1) in human plasma to support clinical development. The method consisted of semi-automated 96-well protein precipitation extraction for sample preparation and LC-MS/MS analysis in positive ion mode using TurboIonSpray® for analysis. D6-GDC-0834 and D6-M1 metabolite were used as internal standards. A linear regression (weighted 1/concentration(2) ) was used to fit calibration curves over the concentration range of 1 - 500 ng/mL for both GDC-0834 and M1 metabolite. The accuracy (percentage bias) at the lower limit of quantitation (LLOQ) was 5.20 and 0.100% for GDC-0834 and M1 metabolite, respectively. The precision (CV) for samples at the LLOQ was 3.13-8.84 and 5.20-8.93% for GDC-0834 and M1 metabolite, respectively. For quality control samples at 3, 200 and 400 ng/mL, the between-run CV was ≤ 7.38% for GDC-0834 and ≤ 8.20% for M1 metabolite. Between run percentage bias ranged from -2.76 to 6.98% for GDC-0834 and from -6.73 to 2.21% for M1 metabolite. GDC-0834 and M1 metabolite were stable in human plasma for 31 days at -20 and -70°C. This method was successfully applied to support a GDC-0834 human pharmacokinetic-based study.