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Title: High-performance liquid chromatographic separation of platinum complexes containing the cis-1,2-diaminocyclohexane carrier ligand.

Authors: Mauldin, S K; Richard, F A; Plescia, M; Wyrick, S D; Sancar, A; Chaney, S G

Published In Anal Biochem, (1986 Aug 15)

Abstract: Platinum drugs with the 1,2-diaminocyclohexane (dach) carrier ligand have shown great promise in cancer chemotherapy, but little is known about their metabolism in the body. Since it is possible to radiolabel the dach ligand, it should be possible to quantitate the biotransformation products of these drugs, provided a method were available to separate the biotransformation products. In this paper we describe a two-column high-performance liquid chromatography system which can be used to separate many likely dach-platinum biotransformation products from the parent compounds, and allow their identification. An initial separation on a reverse-phase Partisil ODS-3 column allowed resolution of the uncharged species. The peak fractions from this column were concentrated 10-fold and reinjected onto a cation exchange Partisil 10 SCX column to allow resolution of the positively charged species. This system allowed resolution of two prototype dach-platinum drugs, (cis-1,2-diaminocyclohexane)dichloroplatinum(II) and (cis-1,2-diaminocyclohexane)malonatoplatinum(II), the aquated species likely to form from these drugs, and the complexes formed when these compounds react with glutathione, metallothionein, and amino acids. By using cation exchange chromatography at pH 2.3 as well as pH 4 and by using 14C-labeled amino acids to determine stoichiometry, it was also possible to determine the most likely structures for some of the amino acid complexes. Most importantly, this system allowed clear separation of many of the likely biotransformation products tested from the biologically important aquated species. This system should prove useful for separating and identifying the biotransformation products of dach-platinum drugs in blood and urine, in tissue culture media, and inside the cell.

PubMed ID: 3766956 Exiting the NIEHS site

MeSH Terms: Antineoplastic Agents/isolation & purification; Antineoplastic Agents/metabolism; Biotransformation; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid/methods*; Chromatography, Ion Exchange; Organoplatinum Compounds/isolation & purification*; Organoplatinum Compounds/metabolism

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