Peptide-based therapeutics: quality specifications, regulatory considerations, and prospects.

Peptide-based therapeutics: quality specifications, regulatory considerations, and prospects. Drug Discov Today. 2018 Oct 05;: Authors: Rastogi S, Shukla S, Kalaivani M, Singh GN Abstract Exquisite selectivity, remarkable efficacy, and minimal toxicity are key attributes inherently assigned to peptides, resulting in increased research interest from the pharmaceutical industry in these peptide-based therapeutics (PbT). Pharmacopoeias are used to develop authoritative standards for PbT by providing standard specifications and test methods. Nevertheless, a lack of harmonization in test procedures adopted for PbT in the latest editions of Pharmacopoeias has been observed. Adoption of a harmonized monograph could increase further the interest of the global pharmaceutical industry in PbTs. Here, we provide an overview of pharmacopoeial methodologies and specifications commonly observed in PbT monographs and highlight the main differences among the pharmacopoeias in terms of the active pharmaceutical ingredients that they focus on. We also address the prospects for PbT to mature as a new therapeutic niche. PMID: 30296551 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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