Development and validation of a capillary zone electrophoresis method for assessment of recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in pharmaceutical formulations and its correlation with liquid chromatography methods and bioassay

A capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) method was validated for the analysis of recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rhG-CSF) and performed on a fused-silica capillary, with detection at 195 nm. The background electrolyte solution consisted of 50 mM sodium tetraborate solution at pH 9. The method was linear in the concentration range of 1–200 μg/mL and the limit of quantitation (LOQ) was 1 μg/mL, with acceptable validation parameters. The method was applied for the analysis of pharmaceutical formulations, and the results were correlated to the reversed-phase HPLC method (RP-HPLC), size-exclusion HPLC method (SE-HPLC) and in vitro bioassay method.