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Biological sample preparation by using restricted-access nanoparticles prepared from bovine serum albumin: application to liquid chromatographic determination of β-blockers

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Restricted-access nanoparticles (RANPs) were prepared from bovine serum albumin by coacervation. They have an average sized of 311 nm. They were characterized and used to capture the β-blockers atenolol, metoprolol and propranolol from untreated biological samples. It is shown that both high protein affinity drugs (propranolol) and low protein affinity drugs (atenolol) could be rapidly extracted from plasma. This is revealed by kinetic and isothermal adsorption studies. On the other hand, almost all proteins from the sample were excluded. This demonstrates the efficiency of RANPs as restricted-access material. Sample preparation was carried out by solid phase microextraction using a probe obtained by the fixation of the RANPs at the end of a glass capillary. Atenolol (in concentrations from 100 to 1200 μg L−1), metoprolol (from 80 to 1000 μg L−1) and propranolol (from 15 to 200 μg L−1) were extracted from spiked plasma samples and analyzed by LC MS/MS without using a separation column. Correlation coefficients >0.99, good precision, accuracy, robustness, and lack of memory effects were observed for all of the analytes. The detection limits (at an S/N of 3) are 25.6, 14.6, and 3.8 μg L−1 for atenolol, metoprolol and propranolol, respectively. Ten samples can be simultaneously extracted within ∼15 min. Plasma samples of patients undergoing medical treatment were successfully analyzed with the method.

Schematic representation of a bovine serum albumin-based restricted access nanoparticle that exclude proteins from a human plasma sample but capture the small analytes.

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The authors thank Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) [projects CDS-APQ-00638-17 and CDS-PPM-00144-15]; the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq, Brasília, Brazil) [project 427365/2018-0]; and the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) for the financial support.

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    Mariana Azevedo Rosa, Henrique Dipe De Faria, Diailison Teixeira Carvalho & Eduardo Costa Figueiredo

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Highlights

1. Restricted access nanoparticles (RANPs) of bovine serum albumin were synthesized.

2. RANPs efficiently excluded proteins from biological fluids.

3. Drugs with high and low protein binding rates were retained by the RANPs.

4. RANPs probes were useful, simple, and reproducible for solid phase microextraction.

5. The method was validated and used to determine β-blockers in human plasma samples.

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Rosa, M.A., De Faria, H.D., Carvalho, D.T. et al. Biological sample preparation by using restricted-access nanoparticles prepared from bovine serum albumin: application to liquid chromatographic determination of β-blockers. Microchim Acta 186, 647 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-019-3774-1

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