Direct quantitation of tenofovir diphosphate in human blood with mass spectrometry for adherence monitoring
- 2 January 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
- Vol. 412 (6), 1243-1249
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-019-02304-0
Abstract
Inadequate adherence to chronic medications is a far-reaching problem with financial and human health consequences. By a wide margin, non-adherence is the leading cause of therapeutic failures of HIV pre-exposure chemoprophylaxis (PrEP) and antiretroviral therapy (ART). It has been proven that HIV infection can be prevented by daily dosing of emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate. Measurement of intracellular tenofovir diphosphate in red blood cells has been established as an effective way to assess cumulative adherence, however, the LC-MS-based analytical method developed for the purpose is both complicated and expensive. Here, we report a simple method for adherence monitoring based on direct MS quantification of intracellular tenofovir diphosphate in human whole blood. The method requires only microliters of whole blood, employs special membranes to perform plasma separation and concomitant desalting during blood collection, and uses nanoelectrospray on a triple quadrupole instrument. Quantitative performance in this proof-of-concept study includes RSDs of < 15% and successful analysis of a small number of patient samples with medium to high adherence levels. The results correlate with those of a validated LC-MS/MS method, and an R2 value of 0.9962 is achieved. This methodology has promise for extension to point-of-care testing using miniature mass spectrometers.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Institutes of Health (R44GM119584)
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