Metabolite Identification Services
Creative Biolabs provides a rapid, reliable, and highly customizable platform for the in vivo validation of T-cell-focused immunotherapies. We deliver critical efficacy, safety, and mechanism of action (MOA) data, focusing on T-cell function and tumor inhibition. Clients gain accelerated pre-clinical decision-making capabilities, an extended therapeutic observation window thanks to our GVHD mitigation protocols, and sophisticated immunological reports, ensuring their research assets move forward with high confidence.
Background
Metabolism information is key to understanding drug safety and efficacy. Among them, metabolite identification runs through the entire process of drug development.
- In the early stages of drug development, metabolite identification can be used to identify metabolic soft spots to improve PK properties or to identify active metabolites to address PK/PD issues.
- During the lead optimization phase, metabolite identification helps screen lead compounds with low bioactivation potential and low risk of drug-drug interactions.
- In the later stages of drug development, metabolite identification is used to guide the selection of animal species for preclinical safety assessment.
- In the preclinical and clinical research phases, metabolite identification studies of radioisotope-labeled drugs provide a quantitative understanding of the metabolites of drugs in systemic circulation and excretion.
Fig.1 Metabolic processes. 1
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What We Can Offer
Identification Service
Soft Spot Identification Service
The traditional metabolite identification process requires long-term LC-MS analysis and a lot of manual data interpretation. Creative Biolabs provides a rapid, high-throughput method for identifying metabolic soft spots to meet throughput requirements in the early stages of drug discovery.
Learn More →In Vitro Cross-Species Comparison Service
Creative Biolabs offers in vitro cross-species comparisons, which use in vitro models to perform experiments to assess similarities and differences in biological responses between different species, such as drug metabolism, toxicity, or efficacy.
Learn More →Identification Type
| In vitro incubation metabolite identification | Metabolite identification in vivo | Identification of reactive metabolites |
|---|---|---|
| Liver microsomes, S9, primary hepatocytes, lysosomes, tumor cells, whole blood, plasma, etc. | Plasma, urine, bile, feces, tissues, and organs, etc. | GSH trapping |
Metabolite Identification Process
Why Choose Us
| Key Features | Unique Advantages |
|---|---|
| Superior Resolution | We utilize advanced separation (HILIC) and mass spectrometry to resolve and characterize complex isomeric metabolites that are often missed by conventional approaches. |
| Documentation Focus | Our reports are built around stringent structural criteria, providing the necessary cross-species comparison in plasma and definitive structural identification to satisfy stringent documentation requirements from the outset. |
| Seamless Quantification | We directly link Level 1 structural ID to the development of robust LC-MS/MS quantification methods, ensuring zero data gap between qualitative and quantitative studies. |
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Customer Reviews
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Rapid Analytical Compliance
The utilization of Creative Biolabs' services has substantially enhanced our capacity for the structural confirmation of principal circulating metabolites across diverse species. This capability immediately fulfilled the stringent internal analytical prerequisites required for our comprehensive characterization project. - Dr. S***h. -
Resolved Reactive Metabolite Mystery
Using Creative Biolabs' services in our research significantly improved our ability to identify and characterize a low-level, novel reactive metabolite from our lead compound in human liver microsomes. This allowed us to redesign the scaffold and eliminate the liability before committing to in vivo studies. - Jes***a L.
FAQs
How to choose a metabolite identification method?
Choosing the right metabolite identification method depends on several factors, including the nature of the metabolite, the complexity of the sample matrix, the sensitivity required, and the available resources. If you have questions about this, you can contact our technicians directly for the best advice.
What is soft spot identification?
Soft spot identification involves a systematic analysis of metabolic pathways, cellular processes, or biological systems to identify points of vulnerability, sensitivity, or importance for physiological or pathological outcomes. This can be achieved through a combination of experimental techniques, computational modeling, and data analysis approaches.
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Learn More →Drug Bioanalysis Service
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Learn More →How to Contact Us
With rich experience in in vivo /in vitro screening and evaluation, relying on advanced technology and instruments, the Creative Biolabs expert team has developed a research platform for the analysis and identification of DMPK metabolites, and formulated a series of perfect countermeasures for the difficulties in the experimental process. Please feel free to contact us for more information about our services.
Reference
- Ivanisevic, Julijana, and Elizabeth J Want. "From Samples to Insights into Metabolism: Uncovering Biologically Relevant Information in LC-HRMS Metabolomics Data." Metabolites vol. 9,12 308. 17 Dec. 2019. Distributed under an Open Access license CC BY 4.0, without modification. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo9120308
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