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Definitions

• This invention relates to pharmaceutical insulin formulations which can be used to prevent, treat and cure diabetes and aspects naturally related thereto.
• Insulin is a polypeptide hormone secreted by ⁇ -cells of the pancreas.
• Insulin is used for the treatment of diabetes and diseases connected therewith or resulting from it. Insulin is essential in maintaining normal metabolic regulation. Since the introduction of insulin therepy 90 years ago, the lives of millions of patients with diabetes have been saved, prolonged and improved. In the last decades, it has turned out that it is extremely important for a diabetic patient to maintain close control of the blood glucose level.
• insulin is administered by injections (subcutaneously).
• injections subcutaneously
• Nat. Reviews Drug Disc. 1 (2002), 529 ef seq. there is an overview of alternative routes for the administration of insulin.
• acylated insulin analogues wherein one hydrophobic amino acid has been substituted with hydrophilic amino acids are mentioned.
• WO 2009/1 15469 there is no men- tioning of specific injectable pharmaceutical insulin formulations.
• WO 02/067969 relates to insulin formulations which are stabilised because they contain two different insulin species and, apparently, the description is focused on insulin lispro being one of the two insulin species.
• the object of this invention is to overcome or ameliorate at least one of the disadvantages of the prior art, or to provide a useful alternative.
• Another aspect of this invention relates to the furnishing of insulin formulations having a relatively high content of insulin, e.g., a concentration of insulin above about 1 .5 mM insulin, preferably above about 3 mM insulin, and more preferred above about 4 mM and a concentration below about 9 mM insulin.
• a relatively high content of insulin e.g., a concentration of insulin above about 1 .5 mM insulin, preferably above about 3 mM insulin, and more preferred above about 4 mM and a concentration below about 9 mM insulin.
• Another aspect of this invention relates to the furnishing of insulin formulations having a sufficient chemical stability.
• Another aspect of this invention relates to the furnishing of insulin formulations having a sufficient physical stability.
• Another aspect of this invention relates to the furnishing of insulin formulations having a sufficiently low viscosity.
• Another aspect of this invention relates to the furnishing of insulin formulations having a suffi- cient solubility.
• Another aspect of this invention relates to the furnishing of insulin formulations having a sufficient stable oligomerisation pattern.
• Another aspect of this invention relates to the furnishing of insulin formulations wherein the insulin which is present at a relatively high concentration is in dissolved form at a pH value of about 6 or above about 6, preferably at a pH value of about 6.5 or above about 6.5, more preferred at a pH value of about 7 or above about 7, even more preferred at a pH value of about 7.4 or above about 7.4 and below a pH value of about 8.2.
• diabetes or "diabetes mellitus” includes type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes (during pregnancy) and other states that cause hyperglycaemia.
• the term is used for a metabolic disorder in which the pancreas produces insufficient amounts of insulin, or in which the cells of the body fail to respond appropriately to insulin thus preventing cells from absorbing glucose. As a result, glucose builds up in the blood.
• Type 1 diabetes also called insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) and juvenile-onset diabetes
• IDDM insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
• Type 2 diabetes also known as non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and adult-onset diabetes, is associated with predominant insulin resistance and thus relative insulin deficiency and/or a predominantly insulin secretory defect with insulin resistance.
• the ionic strength of a solution is a measure of the concentration of ions in that solution. Ionic compounds, when dissolved in water, dissociate into ions. The total electrolyte concentration in solution will affect important properties such as the dissociation or the solubility of different salts.
• the ionic strength (herein designated "I") of a solution is a function of the concentration of all ions present in that solution: where c, is the molar concentration of ion i (mol-drrf 3 ), z, is the charge number of that ion, and the sum is taken over all ions in the solution.
• I The ionic strength (herein designated "I") of a solution is a function of the concentration of all ions present in that solution: where c, is the molar concentration of ion i (mol-drrf 3 ), z, is the charge number of that ion, and the sum is taken over all ions in the solution.
• the ionic strength is equal to the concentration
• formulations of the insulin derivatives mentioned in the present specification such as in the clauses and claims herein containing the additives mentioned in the present specification such as in the clauses and claims herein in the concentrations mentioned in the pre- sent specification such as in the clauses and claims herein fulfil many of the above objects.
• such formulations are soluble and have a desired pharmacokinetic profile.
• the insulin derivatives which are to be stabilised by the present invention have the general formula I: Acy-X-Y n -lns.
• “Ins” designates an insulin analogue to which a side chain (designated Acy-X-Y n -) has been attached to the ⁇ amino group present in the B29 lysine amino acid in said insulin analogue.
• "Ins” designates an insulin analogue; and, according to formula I, a side chain (designated Acy-X-Y n -) has been attached to said insulin analogue, i.e., attached to the ⁇ amino group present in the B29 lysine amino acid in said insulin analogue.
• Said insulin analogue is human insulin containing glutamic acid in the A14 position, histidine in the B25 position, optionally histidine in the B16 position and, optionally, the B27 and/or B30 amino acid(s) has/have been removed.
• Acy is a fatty diacid with 8-24 carbon atoms from which a hydroxyl group has been removed
• X is yGlu wherein the amino residue has been connected to "Acy" and - if n is different from zero - the carbonyl group in yGlu has been connected to Y or - if n is zero - the carbonyl group in yGlu has been connected to the ⁇ amino group in lysine in the B29 position in the insulin analogue
• Y is -NH-(CH 2 )2-0-(CH 2 )2-0-CH 2 - CO- wherein the amino residue is connected to X and the carbonyl group is connected to the ⁇ amino group in lysine in the B29 position in the insulin analogue
• n is 0 (zero), 1 , 2 or 3.
• a specific example of such an insulin derivative of formula I is A14E, B16H, B25H, ⁇ 29 ⁇ (( ⁇ ⁇ - eicosanedioyl-yGlu-[2-(2- ⁇ 2-[2-(2-aminoethoxy)ethoxy]acetylamino ⁇ ethoxy)ethoxy]acetyl)), desB30 human insulin.
• This compound can also be designated A14E, B16H, B25H, B29K(N e eicosandioyl- yGlu-OEG-OEG), desB30 human insulin which has the following formula: s s
• the sequence list of the A and B chains of the parent insulin analogue is given in SEQ ID NO: 1 and 2, respectively.
• Examples of other specific insulin derivatives of formula I are A14E, B16H, B25H, B29K- (N'hexadecandioyl-vGlu), desB30 human insulin; A14E, B16H, B25H, B29K(N E eicosanedioyl-vGlu), des- B30 human insulin ; and A14E, B25H, desB27, B29K(N E -(octadecandioyl-vGlu), desB30 human insulin.
• the formulae of the three last-mentioned compounds are stated in examples 27, 60 and 151 , respectively, in WO 2009/1 15469.
• pharmaceutical formulations fulfilling the above requirements can be prepared by mixing an insulin derivative of the above formula I with phenol, m-cresol, zinc ions, optionally, one or more compounds giving the desired ionic strength and, optionally, glycerol, all in the amounts mentioned in this specification.
• the desired ionic strength can be obtained by adding sodium chloride and/or sodium acetate, and/or TRIS (2-amino-2-hydroxymethyl-1 ,3-propanediol) and/or arginine in proper amounts in the amounts mentioned in this specification.
• pharmaceutical formulations fulfilling the above requirements can be prepared by mixing an insulin derivative of the above formula I with glycerol, phenol, m-cresol, zinc ions and, optionally, sodium chloride in proper amounts and these ingredients may be present in the amounts stated in claim 1 below, preferably 4.2 mM of the insulin derivative, about 1 .6% (weight/weight) of glycerol, about 25 mM of phenol, about 25 mM of m-cresol, about 4.5 Zn/6 moles of insulin derivative, about 20 mM of sodium chloride and having a pH value of about 7.4.
• the pharmaceutical formulations are made isotonic by the addition of sodium chloride and glycerol.
• the amount of zinc present is the amount of zinc ions which are present per six mole of the insulin or insulin derivative which is present in the preparation.
• said six moles of insulin or of insulin derivative are, incorrectly, referred to as a hexamer, even though all insulin molecules does not take part in the formation of a hexamer configuration and, in such cases, the amount of zinc present actually is the amount of zinc ions present per six mole of the insulin or insulin derivative, independent of whether said insulins or insulin derivatives takes part in the formation of a hexamer configuration or not. For this calculation, one does not have to consider which form said zinc ions are present in.
• the insulin derivatives self-associates to form, in particular, dimers, hexamers, di-hexamers (dodecamers) and multi-hexamers.
• the term multi-hexamers covers insulin assemblies containing more than 12 molecules of the insulin derivative. It is believed that, after injection of the formulation of this invention to humans, the multi-hexamers will dissoci- ate due to diffusion of the additives in the formulation and that the liberated dimers will quickly dissociate into monomers.
• a sufficient oligomerisation pattern of a formulation means that the pattern is substantially unchanged, through the shelf life of the formulation.
• said formulation may consist of several components, i.e., dodecamer plus monomer or hexamer plus monomer but not dodecamer, hex- amer, dimer plus monomer and not unspecified different oligomers ranging from dodecamers to monomers.
• the insulin formulations are administered to the patients in a manner known per se, e.g., according to the general knowledge of the patient combined with the general knowledge of the physician.
• This invention is best used at the convenience of the patient.
• the final mode of use thus depends both on the product's capabilities and on the disposition and preference of the patient. This is due to the fact that the effect of any insulin product depends on the insulin need of the individual patient and the sensitivity to the pharmacodynamic actions of said insulin and lastly also to the preferences of the patient in a given situation. These conditions may change over time, both in terms of longer periods (years) and from day to day.
• the optimal dose level for any patient will depend on a variety of factors including the age, body weight, physical activity, and diet of the patient, on a possible combination with other drugs, and on the severity of the state to be treated. It is recommended that the dosage regimen be determined for each individual patient by those skilled in the art in a similar way as it is now done for known insulin formulations.
• diabetes mellitus type 1 or 2
• metabolic diseases and conditions in general where the metabolic effects of insulin has a clinical relevance or are of interest, such as pre-diabetes, impaired glucose tolerance, metabolic syndrome, obesity, cachexia, in vivo beta-cell loss/death, excessive appetite, and inflammation. All these types of conditions are known to or believed to benefit from a stable metabolic state in the subject who has the disease or condition.
• an insulin preparation may be administered parenterally to patients in need of such a treatment.
• Parenteral administration may be performed by subcutaneous, intramuscular or intravenous injection by means of a syringe, optionally a pen-like syringe.
• parenteral administration can be performed by means of an infusion pump.
• Further options are to administer the insulin composition nasally or pulmonary, preferably in compositions, powders or liquids, specifically designed for the purpose.
• a pharmaceutical formulation containing an insulin derivative of the general formula I, glycerol, phenol, m-cresol and zinc ions 2.
• the insulin derivative is selected from the group consisting of A14E, B16H, B25H, B29K((N E eicosanedioyl-YGIu-[2-(2- ⁇ 2-[2-(2-aminoethoxy)- ethoxy]acetylamino ⁇ ethoxy)ethoxy]acetyl)), desB30 human insulin, A14E, B16H, B25H, B29K(N E hexa- decandioyl-yGlu), desB30 human insulin; A14E, B16H, B25H, B29K(N E eicosanedioyl-vGlu), desB30 human insulin; and A14E, B25H, desB27, B29K(N E -octadecandioyl-vGlu), desB30 human insulin, preferably A14E, B16H, B25H, B29K((N E eicosanedioyl-YGIu-
• the insulin derivative is selected from the group consisting of A14E, B16H, B25H, B29K((N E eicosanedioyl-YGIu-[2-(2- ⁇ 2-[2-(2-aminoethoxy)- ethoxy]acetylamino ⁇ ethoxy)ethoxy]acetyl)), desB30 human insulin, A14E, B16H, B25H, B29K(N E hexa- decandioyl-yGlu), desB30 human insulin; A14E, B16H, B25H, B29K(N E eicosanedioyl-vGlu), desB30 human insulin; and A14E, B25H, desB27, B29K(N E -octadecandioyl-vGlu), desB30 human insulin, preferably A14E, B16H, B25H, B29K((N E eicosanedioyl-YGIu-
• the insulin derivative is selected from the group consisting of A14E, B16H, B25H, ⁇ 29 ⁇ (( ⁇ ⁇ - eicosanedioyl-YGIu-[2-(2- ⁇ 2-[2-(2-aminoethoxy)ethoxy]acetylamino ⁇ ethoxy)ethoxy]acetyl)), desB30 human insulin, A14E, B16H, B25H, B29K(N E hexadecandioyl-vGlu), desB30 human insulin; A14E, B16H, B25H, B29K(N E eicosanedioyl-vGlu), desB30 human insulin ; and A14E, B25H, desB27, B29K(N E -octa- decandioyl-yGlu), desB30 human insulin.
• insulin analogue of the general formula is A14E, B16H, B25H, B29K(N E eicosanedioyl-vGlu), desB30 human insulin.
• the aim of this experiment was to measure the chemical and physical stability as a function of zinc concentration in formulation with A14E, B16H, B25H, B29K((N e eicosanedioyl-gGlu-[2-(2- ⁇ 2-[2-(2- aminoethoxy)ethoxy]acetylamino ⁇ ethoxy)ethoxy]acetyl)), desB30 human insulin.
• A14E, B16H, B25H, B29K((N e Eicosanedioyl-gGlu-[2-(2- ⁇ 2-[2-(2-aminoethoxy)ethoxy]acetylamino ⁇ - ethoxy)ethoxy]acetyl)), desB30 human insulin was dissolved in milliq water to a final concentration of 26.2 mM at a pH value of about 8.
• Phenol, cresol, zinc chloride (Zn) and glycerol were added in the mentioned order according to the concentration of Zn/ 6 insulins (herein abbreviated into "ins”) in the table below resulting in a final insulin concentration of 7.1 mM.
• Species distribution as observed by SEC at neutral pH was measured using Method 1. Physical stability of the formulations was measured as lag time in Thioflavin T assay. Chemical stability of the formulations were measured as increase in High Molecular Weigth Protein (HMWP) and deamidations after storage for two weeks at 37°C relatively to the amount of HMWP and deamidation measured after two weeks of storage at 4°C.
• HMWP content after two weeks storage at 4°C is 0.6%.
• the deamidation content after two weeks storage at 4°C is 5.4%.
• HMWP was measured using HMWP method 1.
• the amount of desamido A21 and B3 were determined as absorbance area measured in percentage of total absorbance area determined after elution of the preservatives.
• oligomerisation increase and decrease as a function of zinc concentration.
• the largest amount of hexamer is in formulations containing 2.3 Zn/6 insulin.
• the largest amount of di-hexamers is in formulations containing between 3.5 Zn/6 ins and 5.9 Zn/6. Increase in Zn concentration from 5.9 Zn/6 insulins to 7.1 Zn/6 insulins decrease the amount of di-hexamer.
• the physical stability is optimal in formulation above 2.3 Zn/6 ins since lag time in ThT assay increases as a function of zinc concentration, and is optimal above 2.3 Zn/6 ins and recovery after ThT test increase to 100% when the formulation contains 2.3 Zn/6 ins or more.
• the chemical stability increases as a function of zinc concentration; since HMWP formation is optimal in formulations containing from 2.3 Zn/6 insulin to 5.9 Zn/ 6 ins. Deamidation formation is likewise optimal in formulations containing from 2.3 Zn/6 insulin to 5.9 Zn/6 ins.
• the oligomerisation of the insulin is linked with the physical and chemical stability of the sample.
• Formulations primarily containing insulin monomers (0 and 1.2 Zn/6 ins) have low physical and chemical stability.
• Formulations containing di-hexameric species appears to be the most chemically stable conformation.
• the aim of this experiment was to measure the chemical and physical stability as a function of A14E, B16H, B25H, B29K((N e eicosanedioyl-gGlu-[2-(2- ⁇ 2-[2-(2-aminoethoxy)ethoxy]acetylamino ⁇ ethoxy)- ethoxy]acetyl)), desB30 human insulin concentration in a fixed formulation.
• the stability of insulin has been shown to depend on the degree of oligomerisation; hexameric insulin with zinc is more stable than insulin without zinc (Brange and Langkjaer 1992). Since oligomerisation is also driven by dilution, the concentration of insulin in the sample may influence the stability.
• A14E, B16H, B25H, B29K((N e Eicosanedioyl-gGlu-[2-(2- ⁇ 2-[2-(2-aminoethoxy)ethoxy]acetylamino ⁇ - ethoxy)ethoxy]acetyl)), desB30 human insulin was dissolved in milliq water at a pH value of about 8.
• Phenol, cresol, zinc chloride (Zn) and glycerol were added in the mentioned order resulting in a final formulation containing: 4.7 Zn/ 6insulins, 1.6% glycerol, 16 mM phenol, 20 mM cresol, 20 mM NaCI pH, 7.4 and the insulin concentration stated in the table below.
• HMWP formation is similar for A14E, B16H, B25H, B29K((N e eicosanedioyl-gGlu-[2-(2- ⁇ 2-[2- (2-aminoethoxy)ethoxy]acetylamino ⁇ ethoxy)ethoxy]acetyl)), desB30 human insulin in the analysed concentration range 0.51-7.1 mM insulin after two weeks at 37°C.
• Deamidation and HMWP development are also similar in the concentration range 3.5 mM-7.1 mM insulin and time range 5 weeks at 30°C and 45 days at 37°C.
• HMWP development is low since only 1 % of HMWP is formed in 45 days and deamidations is likewise low since only 1-1.5% of HMWP is formed.
• Formulations having the numbers 1 -12 in Table 3 contained 4.2 mM insulin 7 25 mM phenol, 20 mM m-cresol as well as the ingredients mentioned in Table 3 below.
• the NovoRapid ® excipient control (formulation No. 13 in Table 3) consisted of 600 ⁇ insulin aspart, 0.3 mM zinc acetate, 20 mM NaCI, 16 mM phenol, 16 mM cresol, 1 .6% glycerol and 7 mM phosphate (pH 7.4).
• THT lag time of the formulation is increase as a function of zinc content and is optimal when the formulation contains more than 4 Zn atoms per 6 insulin molecules.
• HMWP formation of insulin 7 is within the range of NovoRapid in the formulations tested
• the aim of this experiment was to measure the chemical and physical stability as a function of zinc concentration in formulation with insulin 7, insulin 3, insulin 6, insulin 2 and insulin 8 at an insulin concentration of 4.2 mM.
• Insulin 7, insulin 3, insulin 6, insulin 2 and insulin 7 were dissolved in milliq water to a final concentra- tion of about 9 mM at a pH value of about 8.
• Phenol, cresol, zinc acetate (Zn), sodium chloride and glycerol were added in the mentioned order according to the concentration of Zn/6 insulins (herein abbreviated into “ins”) in the table below resulting in a final insulin concentration of 4.2 mM insulin, 20 mM sodium chloride, 25 mM phenol, 25 mM cresol, pH 7.4.
• Fibrillation tendency as measured by THT lag time in hours as specified in "methods section”.
• Chemical stability of the formulations were measured as increase in High Molecular Weigth Protein (HMWP) increase in insulin related impurities after storage for eight weeks (w) at 37°C relatively to the amount of HMWP after storage at 4 ° C.
• HMWP High Molecular Weigth Protein
• HMWP was measured using method 1.
• the letter "w” is used as an abbreviation for weeks.
• Amount of monomer was measured using Native gelfiltration, method 2. Insulin Zn/ hexamer % monomer %monomer %HMWP % Impurity THT
• Insulin 6 3 2.3 2.2 1.1 4.4 9
• Insulin 8 3 2.1 2.0 0.5 4.4 6.7
• the aim of this experiment was to measure the chemical and physical stability as a function of insulin concentration with fixed zink concentration in formulation containing insulin 7, insulin 3 insulin 6, insulin 2 and insulin 8.
• the stability of insulin has been shown to depend on the degree of oligomerisation; hexameric insulin with zinc is more stable than insulin without zinc (Brange and Langkjaer 1992). Since oligomerisation is also driven by dilution, the concentration of insulin in the sample may influence the stability.
• Insulin 7, insulin 3 insulin 6, insulin 2 and insulin 8 were dissolved in milliq water at a pH value of about 8.
• Phenol, cresol, zinc acetate (Zn), sodium chloride and glycerol were added in the mentioned order resulting in a final formulation containing: 4.5 Zn/6 insulins, 1.6% glycerol, 25 mM phenol, 25 mM cresol, 20 mM NaCI, pH 7.4 and the insulin concentration stated in the table below.
• HMWP High Molecular Weight Protein
• HMWP was measured using method 1.
• Amount of deamidation like impurities were measured as increase in impurities measured in reverse phase chromatography after eight weeks at 37 ° C relatively to the amount of impurities measured after storage eight weeks at 4 ° C. Fibrillation tendency as measured by THT lag time in hours as specified in "methods section".
• Amount of monomer was measured in native gelfiltration method 2 in eluent with phenol. Insulin Insulin concen%monomer % HMWP formed in % Purity THT tration 4 ° C 4W 8W at 37 ° C 8w at
• Insulin 2 2.1 88.8 1.27 9 13.7
• Insulin 8 2.1 4.4 0.40 4 45
• insulin 7, insulin 3 insulin 6, insulin 2 and insulin 8 have higher amount of monomer at lower concentration than at higher insulin concentration. This corresponds with the general higher THT lag times at higher insulin concentrations and higher chemical stability at higher insulin concentrations.
• insulin 7 insulin 3
• insulin 6, insulin 2 and insulin 8 have longer lag times in THT assay, lower HMWP formation and impurity formation than NovoRapid despite the monomeric content of up to 80% when analysed in native gel filtration.
• the aim of this experiment was to investigate the oligomerisation by size exclusion chromatography as a function of NaCI content in the formulation containing insulin 7 at 4.2 mM insulin and fixed zinc/6 insulins. Furthermore, the aim was to measure the physical and chemical stability.
• Insulin 7 was dissolved in milliq water at a pH value of about 8. Phenol, cresol, zinc acetate (Zn) and glycerol were added in the mentioned order resulting in a final formulation containing: 4.5 Zn/6 insu- lins, 25 mM phenol, 25 mM cresol, pH 7.4 an insulin concentration of 4.2 mM and sodium chloride (NaCI), zinc acetate and glycerol as stated in the table below.
• Phenol, cresol, zinc acetate (Zn) and glycerol were added in the mentioned order resulting in a final formulation containing: 4.5 Zn/6 insu- lins, 25 mM phenol, 25 mM cresol, pH 7.4 an insulin concentration of 4.2 mM and sodium chloride (NaCI), zinc acetate and glycerol as stated in the table below.
• Fibrillation tendency Measured by Thioflavin T assay. Fibrillation tendency was measured in Thioflavin T (THT) assay as lagtime to fibrillation. THT assay was measured as described on freshly prepared samples.
• HMWP High Molecular Weight Protein
• HMWP was measured using HMWP method 2.
• Amount of monomer was measured in native gelfiltration method 2 in eluent without phenol.
• Amount of insulin 7 monomer decrease as a function of sodium chloride concentration with a large effect of addition of just up to 50 mM NaCI.
• THT lag times increase with zinc content and sodium chloride content.
• the aim of this experiment was to measure the chemical and physical stability as a function of sodium chloride and sodium acetate concentration in formulation with 4.2 mM insulin 7.
• Insulin 7 was dissolved in milliq water to a final concentration of about 9 mM at a pH value of about 8.
• Phenol, cresol, zinc acetate (Zn), sodium chloride, sodium acetate and glycerol were added in the mentioned order resulting in a final formulation containing: 4.5 Zn/6 insulins, 25 mM phenol, 25 mM cresol, pH 7.4 an insulin concentration of 4.2 mM and sodium chloride (NaCI), sodium acetate (NaAc) and glycerol as stated in the table below.
• THT assay Thioflavin T assay as lagtime to fibrillation. THT assay was measured as described on freshly prepared samples.
• HMWP was measured using HMWP method 2.
• Amount of monomer was measured in native gelfiltration method 2 in eluent with phenol.
• HWMP formation, Impurity formation and Lag time to fibrillation in THT assay Insulin NaCI, NaAc conSEC with Impurity HMWP formaLag time in tent phenol formation tion THT in
• Insulin 7 20 mM NaCI, 1 .6% 70% 5 0,65 17,3
• Insulin tent 0 w 4 w 8 w 0 w 4 w 8 w
• Insulin 7 Acetate, 1.24% glycerol 3.09 2.98 2.95 14.6 13.4 14.5
• insulin 7 at 4.2 mM insulin and 4.5 zink/6 moles of insulin is formulated with increasing sodium chloride concentration or sodium chloride combined with acetate decreases the monomeric content when analysed with native gelfiltration.
• Insulin 7 was dissolved in milliq water at a pH value of about 8. Phenol, cresol, zinc acetate (Zn) and glycerol were added in the mentioned order resulting in a final formulation containing: 4.5 Zn/6 insulins, 25 mM phenol, 25 mM cresol pH 7.4 and sodium chloride and sodium chloride as stated below in the table.
• Lag time to fibrillation was measured as lag time in hours in Thioflavin T (ThT) assay and recovery of insulin measured by HPLC after THT assay.
• HMWP High Molecular Weight Protein
• HMWP was measured using HMWP method 2.
• Insulin 7 50 1.1 3.07 3.06 3.05 3.06 3.03 3.03 13.9 15.9 16.4 16.4 16.9 13.8
• HMWP High Molecular Weigth Protein
• HMWP was measured as follows. Quantitative determination of peptide (monomeric) as well as con- tent of HMWP was performed on Waters (300 x 7.8 mm, part nr wat 201549) with an eluent containing: 4 mM L-arginine HCI, 496 mM NaCI, 10 mM NaH 2 P0 4 , 5 mM H 3 P0 4 , 50% (volume/volume) 2- propanol at a flow rate of 0.5 ml/min and 50°C. Detection was performed with a tunable absorbance detector (Waters 486) at 276 nm. Injection volume was 2 ⁇ and a 600 ⁇ human insulin standard was included. The amount of HWMP was determined in area percentage relatively to the total area of insulin in the chromatogram.
• HMWP was measured as follows. Determination of content of HMWP relatively to content of peptide monomer was performed on Waters (150 x 4.5 mm, part nr wat) with an eluent containing: 4 mM L- arginine, 496 mM NaCI, 10 mM NaH 2 P0 4 , 5 mM H 3 P0 4 , 50% (volume/volume) 2-propanol at a flow rate of 0.5 ml/min and 50°C. Detection was performed with a tunable absorbance detector (Waters 486) at 276 nm. A 600 ⁇ human insulin standard was included. The amount of HWMP was deter- mined in area percentage relatively to the total area of insulin in the chromatogram.
• Determination of the insulin related impurities were performed on a UPLC system using a Phenome- nex Kinetix RP C18 2.1 x 150 mm column, particle size of 1.7 ⁇ with a flow rate of 0.3 ml/min., at 50°C detection at 220 nm. Elution was performed with a mobile phase consisting of the following: A. 10 % (V/V) acetonitrile, 0.09 M di-ammoniumhydrogen phosphat pH 3.6 B. 80 % (volume/volume) acetonitrile.
• Thioflavin T is such a probe and has a distinct fluo- rescence signature when binding to fibrils [Naiki ef al. in Anal. Biochem. 177 (1989), 244-249; and Le- Vine in Methods. Enzymol. 309 (1999), 274-284].
• F is the ThT fluorescence at the time t.
• the constant t 0 is the time needed to reach 50% of maximum fluorescence.
• the lag-time corresponds to the interval in which the critical mass of nucleus is built up and the apparent rate constant is the rate with which the fibril itself is formed.
• Sample aliquots of 200 ⁇ were placed in a 96 well microtiter plate (Packard OptiPlateTM-96, white polystyrene). Typically four (or eight) replica of each sample (corresponding to one test condition) were placed in one column of wells. The plate was sealed with Scotch Pad (Qiagen).
• the four or eight replica of each sample was pooled and centrifuged at 20,000 rpm for 30 minutes at 18°C. The supernatant was filtered through a 0.22 ⁇ filter and an aliquot was transferred to a HPLC vial.
• the concentration of peptide in the initial sample and in the filtered supernatant was determined by reverse phase HPLC using an appropriate standard as reference. The percentage fraction of the concentration of the filtered sample constituted in relation to the initial sample concentration was reported as the recovery. Data handling
• the measurement points were saved in Microsoft Excel format for further processing and curve drawing and fitting was performed using GraphPad Prism.
• the background emission from ThT in the absence of fibrils was negligible.
• the data points are typically a mean of four or eight samples and shown with standard deviation error bars. Only data obtained in the same experiment (i.e. samples on the same plate) are presented in the same graph ensuring a relative measure of fibrillation between experiments.
• the data set may be fitted to Equation (1 ). However, the lag time before fibrillation may be assessed by visual inspection of the curve identifying the time point at which ThT fluorescence in- creases significantly above the background level. If no ThT fluorescence increase was observed for any of the replica in one sample within the assay time of 45 hours, a lag time of 45 hours was assigned.
• D f diffusion coefficients
• the diffusion coefficients are typically reported in hydrodynamic radii (f? h ) assuming the sample to consist of spherical species.
• an empirical estimate of the molecular weight is obtained. Dynamic light scattering is a highly sensitive method, which can resolve tiny changes in size as well as minute amounts of aggregated species that are undesirable in pharmaceutical formulations.
• the average, static intensity recorded by the detector also serves as an overall measure of the physical stability of the sample as development of larger species increase the scattered intensity drastically.
• Samples were prepared in 20 mM phosphate pH 7.5 buffer and had concentrations of 0.9 mg/mL or 45.5 mg/mL (1 1.5 and 0.23 mM, respectively). Measurements were performed on a Wyatt (Santa Barbara, CA) DynaPro DLS plate reader at 25°C, and samples were kept at 37°C between measurements. Samples were measured for up to two weeks at time points indicated in Table 1. Measurements were performed in 25-uL triplicate or quintoplicate in Corning 3540 384-well microtiter plates (Corning, NY) sealed with transparent plastic foil (Thermo Fischer Scientific, Waltham, MA) with twen- ty 10-second acquisitions per measurement.
• the running buffer was 150 mM NaCI, 2 mM phenol and 10 mM Tris pH 7.6.
• a MW standard comprised a monomeric insulin (X2) (19.0 min), non-dissociation hexameric insulin (Co(lll)HI ("HI” is human insulin)) (16.0 min), HSA (14.0 min) and HSA-dimer (12.5 min) was used for the assignment of species.
• the column exclusion limit was 2x106 Da.
• the chromatographic envelope was integrated and dihexamers was defined as AUC 12.5 min - 14.3 min, hexamers as 14.3 min - 16.0 min and oligomers smaller than hexamers as 16.0 min -21 .0 min.

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