Citation: SHEN Yuting, KANG Jingwu. Determination of sulfation degree of heparin and low molecular weight heparins by capillary electrophoresis[J]. Chinese Journal of Chromatography, ;2020, 38(10): 1238-1242. doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1123.2020.05032 shu

Determination of sulfation degree of heparin and low molecular weight heparins by capillary electrophoresis

SHEN Yuting ,
KANG Jingwu ^,

State Key Lab of Bio-Organic and Natural Products Chemistry, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China

Corresponding author: KANG Jingwu, jingwu.kang@sioc.ac.cn
Received Date: 5 June 2020

Fund Project: National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21775158, 21375140, 21175146)

Heparin is composed of a highly sulfated linear saccharide and is widely used as an anticoagulant. Low molecular weight heparins (LMWHs) are derived from the unfractionated heparin (UFH) by enzymatic or chemical degradation. LMWHs have largely replaced heparin as an anticoagulant for treatment and prevention of thrombosis because of the advantages of less bleeding, greater bioavailability, and more predictable anticoagulant effects in comparison to heparin. Enoxaparin, produced by the alkaline degradation of UFH through β-eliminative cleavage, represents the most commonly used LMWH. The structural characteristics of LMWHs differ from their parent heparin not only in terms of molecular weight but also in the sulfation degree as a result of losing the sulfate ester groups during the manufacturing process. The resulting compositional variation directly leads to a fluctuation in anticoagulant activity. In vitro functional assays showed that there is a wide variation in anticoagulant activity among the various LMWHs from different manufacturers owing to slight differences in the manufacturing process. This will directly affect heparin drug safety. In order to ensure the stability of product quality, it is necessary to develop a method for detecting the degree of heparin sulfation to monitor the stability of UFH and processing conditions. During the last two decades, various analytical methods based on chromatography or NMR have been developed for structural characterization of UFH and LMWHs. However, the reported methods require expensive equipment and professional data processing. These limitations make it difficult to apply the current methods to quality control via sulfation degree determination. Herein, we report a simple and robust method for the detection of the sulfation degree of UFH and LMWHs. The determination is based on the separation of building blocks of heparin obtained by exhaustive digestion of UFH and LMWHs in a mixture of heparinases. A mixed solution of heparinase Ⅰ, Ⅱ, and Ⅲ was prepared to give a final content of 0.13 IU/mL for each enzyme. The digestion of enoxaparin and heparin samples was performed at 25 ℃ for 48 h. By using a capillary electrophoresis (CE) method, a total of 18 oligosaccharides building blocks of heparin, including ten disaccharides, one trisaccharide, three tetrasaccharides, and four 1,6-anhydro derivatives, can be baseline separated. Then, the compositions of enoxaparin and UFH can be precisely determined. Based on the assumption that the molar extinction coefficient of each oligosaccharide at UV 232 nm is the same, the concentration of each oligosaccharide can be conveniently replaced by their peak area, and the accurate number of sulfate ester groups in each disaccharide unit can be determined, hence the average sulfation degree (SD). The developed method allows us to compare the sulfation degree data between the enoxaparin batches from the different manufacturers to evaluate the composition similarity. Herein, eight batches of commercially available enoxaparin from two manufacturers and four batches of UFH source materials were measured. Each sample was measured in triplicate, and the average values as well as the relative standard deviations (RSD) were calculated. The total sulfation degree (T-SD), the individual degree of N-sulfation (N-SD) and O-sulfation (O-SD) data were also determined and compared. A significant difference was observed in the SD of the products from the different manufacturers, which indicated that our method can be used as one of the quantitative compositional analysis methods for quality control of LMWHs and UFH. The variation in terms of the sulfation degree of enoxaparin products from different manufacturers can be precisely identified using this method. This allows us to determine the detailed compositional differences between products from the different manufacturers. The obtained satisfactory data show that high fluctuation in the sulfation degree of UFH could transmit to the final enoxaparin products. The consistency of the products can also be evaluated by using these methods. The CE method has several advantages for quantitative compositional analysis of LMWHs, such as high separation efficiency, high sensitivity, automation, short analysis time and low consumption of both sample and reagents. It has a good application potential in the quality control heparin production.
- capillary electrophoresis (CE),
- sulfation degree (SD),
- quality control,
- low molecular weight heparins (LMWHs),
- unfractionated heparin (UFH),
- enoxaparin
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