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Mohamed ME, Saqr A, Staley C, Onyeaghala G, Teigen L, Dorr CR, Remmel RP, Guan W, Oetting WS, Matas AJ, Israni AK, Jacobson PA. Pharmacomicrobiomics: Immunosuppressive Drugs and Microbiome Interactions in Transplantation. Transplantation 2024:00007890-990000000-00663. [PMID: 38361239 DOI: 10.1097/tp.0000000000004926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2024]
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The human microbiome is associated with human health and disease. Exogenous compounds, including pharmaceutical products, are also known to be affected by the microbiome, and this discovery has led to the field of pharmacomicobiomics. The microbiome can also alter drug pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, possibly resulting in side effects, toxicities, and unanticipated disease response. Microbiome-mediated effects are referred to as drug-microbiome interactions (DMI). Rapid advances in the field of pharmacomicrobiomics have been driven by the availability of efficient bacterial genome sequencing methods and new computational and bioinformatics tools. The success of fecal microbiota transplantation for recurrent Clostridioides difficile has fueled enthusiasm and research in the field. This review focuses on the pharmacomicrobiome in transplantation. Alterations in the microbiome in transplant recipients are well documented, largely because of prophylactic antibiotic use, and the potential for DMI is high. There is evidence that the gut microbiome may alter the pharmacokinetic disposition of tacrolimus and result in microbiome-specific tacrolimus metabolites. The gut microbiome also impacts the enterohepatic recirculation of mycophenolate, resulting in substantial changes in pharmacokinetic disposition and systemic exposure. The mechanisms of these DMI and the specific bacteria or communities of bacteria are under investigation. There are little or no human DMI data for cyclosporine A, corticosteroids, and sirolimus. The available evidence in transplantation is limited and driven by small studies of heterogeneous designs. Larger clinical studies are needed, but the potential for future clinical application of the pharmacomicrobiome in avoiding poor outcomes is high.
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- Moataz E Mohamed
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN
- Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN
- Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN
- Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN
- Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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Haslund-Krog S, Barry JM, Birnbaum AK, Dalhoff K, Brink Henriksen T, Sherwin CMT, Avachat C, Poulsen S, Christensen U, Remmel RP, Wilkins D, van den Anker JN, Holst H. Pharmacokinetics and safety of prolonged paracetamol treatment in neonates: An interventional cohort study. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2023; 89:3421-3431. [PMID: 37353311 DOI: 10.1111/bcp.15834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2022] [Revised: 06/12/2023] [Accepted: 06/14/2023] [Indexed: 06/25/2023] Open
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AIMS To investigate the pharmacokinetics and safety of prolonged paracetamol use (>72 h) for neonatal pain. METHODS Neonates were included if they received paracetamol orally or intravenously for pain treatment. A total of 126 samples were collected. Alanine aminotransferase and bilirubin were measured as surrogate liver safety markers. Paracetamol and metabolites were measured in plasma. Pharmacokinetic parameters for the parent compound were estimated with a nonlinear mixed-effects model. RESULTS Forty-eight neonates were enrolled (38 received paracetamol for >72 h). Median gestational age was 38 weeks (range 25-42), and bodyweight at inclusion was 2954 g (range 713-4750). Neonates received 16 doses (range 4-55) over 4.1 days (range 1-13.8). The median (range) dose was 10.1 mg/kg (2.9-20.3). The median oxidative metabolite concentration was 14.6 μmol/L (range 0.12-113.5) and measurable >30 h after dose. There was no significant difference (P > .05) between alanine aminotransferase and bilirubin measures at <72 h or >72 h of paracetamol treatment or the start and end of the study. Volume of distribution and paracetamol clearance for a 2.81-kg neonate were 2.99 L (% residual standard error = 8, 95% confidence interval 2.44-3.55) and 0.497 L/h (% residual standard error = 7, 95% confidence interval 0.425-0.570), respectively. Median steady-state concentration from the parent model was 50.3 μmol/L (range 30.6-92.5), and the half-life was 3.55 h (range 2.41-5.65). CONCLUSION Our study did not provide evidence of paracetamol-induced liver injury nor changes in metabolism in prolonged paracetamol administration in neonates.
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- Sissel Haslund-Krog
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg University Hospital, Copenhagen NV, Denmark
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg University Hospital, Copenhagen NV, Denmark
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- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N, Denmark
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- Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Pediatrics, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Dayton Children's Hospital, Dayton, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N, Denmark
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Division of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Department of Pathology, University of Utah, School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Children's National Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
- Division of Paediatric Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, University Children's Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg University Hospital, Copenhagen NV, Denmark
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Lyu X, Illamola SM, Marino SE, Leppik IE, Dahmer S, Lehfeldt P, Conway JM, Remmel RP, Kingsley K, Birnbaum AK. Medical Cannabis Received by Patients According to Qualifying Condition in a US State Cannabis Program: Product Choice, Dosing, and Age-Related Trends. Curr Ther Res Clin Exp 2023; 99:100709. [PMID: 37538850 PMCID: PMC10393751 DOI: 10.1016/j.curtheres.2023.100709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2023] [Accepted: 06/02/2023] [Indexed: 08/05/2023]
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Background Little is known about the distribution of cannabidiol (CBD) and Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) to patients participating in state medical cannabis programs. The Minnesota cannabis program requires third-party testing of products with limited formulations of cannabis for distribution to patients. Objective To characterize the distribution of cannabis products, their CBD/THC content, and dosing among patients with qualifying conditions. Methods This is a retrospective analysis of ∼50% of registered users receiving medical cannabis in Minnesota (June 16, 2016, to November 15, 2019). Data included formulation, CBD/THC prescribed doses, and qualifying conditions. The primary end points were calculated using daily dose and duration of use. Comparisons were made for CBD and THC total daily dose dispensed, patient age, and approved product. Nonparametric statistical tests were used (significance was set at p < 0.05). Results A total of 11,520 patients were listed with 1 qualifying condition. The most common condition was intractable pain (60.0%). Median dispensation duration varied from 53 days (cancer) to 322 days (muscle spasms). Most (≥62.8%) patients across all qualifying conditions received both CBD and THC. Median THC dose was lower in older (≥65 years) compared with younger adults with intractable pain (p < 0.0001) and cancer patients (p = 0.0152), and the same pattern was found CBD dose with seizure (p = 0.0498) patients. For commercial products with Food and Drug Administration indications, the median CBD total daily dose was 86.9% lower than the recommended doses for patients with seizures (Epidiolex: Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Palo Alto CA) and median THC total daily dose was 65.3% (Syndros: Benuvia Manufacturing, Round Rock, TX) or 79.3% lower (Marinol: Banner Pharmacaps, Inc., High Point, NC) for cancer patients. Conclusions A majority of patients received products containing both CBD and THC. Dosages varied by age group and were lower than recommended for conditions with Food and Drug Administration-approved products. Complex pharmacokinetics of THC and CBD, possible age-related changes in physiology, unknown efficacy, and potential for drug interactions all increase the need for monitoring of patients receiving cannabis products. (Curr Ther Res Clin Exp. 2023; 84:XXX-XXX).
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- Xintian Lyu
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuropharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuropharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Family Medicine and Community Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
- Goodness Growth Holdings, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuropharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Reininger KA, Onyeaghala G, Anderson-Haag T, Schladt DS, Wu B, Guan W, Dorr CR, Remmel RP, Mannon R, Matas AJ, Oetting WS, Stahler P, Israni AK, Jacobson PA. Higher number of tacrolimus dose adjustments in kidney transplant recipients who are extensive and intermediate CYP3A5 metabolizers. Clin Transplant 2023; 37:e14893. [PMID: 36571802 PMCID: PMC10089949 DOI: 10.1111/ctr.14893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2022] [Accepted: 12/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Kidney transplant recipients carrying the CYP3A5*1 allele have lower tacrolimus troughs, and higher dose requirements compared to those with the CYP3A5*3/*3 genotype. However, data on the effect of CYP3A5 alleles on post-transplant tacrolimus management are lacking. The effect of CYP3A5 metabolism phenotypes on the number of tacrolimus dose adjustments and troughs in the first 6 months post-transplant was evaluated in 78 recipients (64% Caucasians). Time to first therapeutic concentration, percentage of time in therapeutic range (TTR), and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) were also evaluated. Fifty-five kidney transplant recipients were CYP3A5 poor metabolizers (PM), 17 were intermediate metabolizers (IM), and 6 were extensive metabolizers (EM). Compared to PMs, EMs/IMs had significantly more dose adjustments (6.1 vs. 8.1, p = .015). Overall, 33.82% of trough measurements resulted in a dose change. There was no difference in the number of tacrolimus trough measurements between PMs and EM/IMs. The total daily tacrolimus dose requirements were higher in EMs and IMs compared to PMs (<.001). TTR was ∼50% in the PMs and EMs/IMs groups. CYP3A5 EM/IM metabolizers have more tacrolimus dose changes and higher dose requirements which increases clinical management complexity. Larger studies are needed to assess the cost and benefits of including genotyping data to improve clinical management.
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- Kevin A Reininger
- Department of Pharmacy, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Division of Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Division of Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Division of Nephrology, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Division of Surgery, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Division of Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Al-Kofahi M, Oetting WS, Schladt DP, Remmel RP, Guan W, Wu B, Dorr CR, Mannon RB, Matas AJ, Israni AK, Jacobson PA. Precision Dosing for Tacrolimus Using Genotypes and Clinical Factors in Kidney Transplant Recipients of European Ancestry. J Clin Pharmacol 2021; 61:1035-1044. [PMID: 33512723 DOI: 10.1002/jcph.1823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2020] [Accepted: 01/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Genetic variation in the CYP3A4 and CYP3A5 (CYP3A4/5) genes, which encode the key enzymes in tacrolimus metabolism, is associated with tacrolimus clearance and dose requirements. Tacrolimus has a narrow therapeutic index with high intra- and intersubject variability, in part because of genetic variation. High tacrolimus clearance and low trough concentration are associated with a greater risk for rejection, whereas high troughs are associated with calcineurin-induced toxicity. The objective of this study was to develop a model of tacrolimus clearance with a dosing equation accounting for genotypes and clinical factors in adult kidney transplant recipients of European ancestry that could preemptively guide dosing. Recipients receiving immediate-release tacrolimus for maintenance immunosuppression from 2 multicenter studies were included. Participants in the GEN03 study were used for tacrolimus model development (n = 608 recipients) and was validated by prediction performance in the DeKAF Genomics study (n = 1361 recipients). Nonlinear mixed-effects modeling was used to develop the apparent oral tacrolimus clearance (CL/F) model. CYP3A4/5 genotypes and clinical covariates were tested for their influence on CL/F. The predictive performance of the model was determined by assessing the bias (median prediction error [ME] and median percentage error [MPE]) and the precision (root median squared error [RMSE]) of the model. CYP3A5*3, CYP3A4*22, corticosteroids, calcium channel blocker and antiviral drug use, age, and diabetes significantly contributed to the interindividual variability of oral tacrolimus apparent clearance. The bias (ME, MPE) and precision (RMSE) of the final model was good, 0.49 ng/mL, 6.5%, and 3.09 ng/mL, respectively. Prospective testing of this equation is warranted.
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- Mahmoud Al-Kofahi
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Hennepin Health Research Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Hennepin Health Research Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Division of Nephrology, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Hennepin Health Research Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Department of Epidemiology & Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Nguyen TT, Pearson RA, Mohamed ME, Schladt DP, Berglund D, Rivers Z, Skaar DJ, Wu B, Guan W, van Setten J, Keating BJ, Dorr C, Remmel RP, Matas AJ, Mannon RB, Israni AK, Oetting WS, Jacobson PA. Pharmacogenomics in kidney transplant recipients and potential for integration into practice. J Clin Pharm Ther 2020; 45:1457-1465. [PMID: 32662547 DOI: 10.1111/jcpt.13223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2019] [Revised: 05/14/2020] [Accepted: 06/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
WHAT IS KNOWN AND OBJECTIVE Pharmacogenomic biomarkers are now used in many clinical care settings and represent one of the successes of precision medicine. Genetic variants are associated with pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes leading to medication adverse effects and changes in clinical response. Actionable pharmacogenomic variants are common in transplant recipients and have implications for medications used in transplant, but yet are not broadly incorporated into practice. METHODS From the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium and Dutch Pharmacogenetics Working Group guidelines, and PharmGKB databases, 12 pharmacogenomic genes with 30 variants were selected and used to create diplotypes and actionable pharmacogenomic phenotypes. A total of 853 kidney allograft recipients who had genomic information available from a genome-wide association study were included. RESULTS Each recipient had at least one actionable pharmacogenomic diplotype/phenotype, whereas the majority (58%) had three or four actionable diplotypes/phenotypes and 17.4% had five or more among the 12 genes. The participants carried actionable diplotypes/phenotypes for multiple medications, including tacrolimus, azathioprine, clopidogrel, warfarin, simvastatin, voriconazole, antidepressants and proton-pump inhibitors. WHAT IS NEW AND CONCLUSION Pharmacogenomic variants are common in transplant recipients, and transplant recipients receive medications that have actionable variants. CLINICAL TRIAL Genomics of Transplantation, clinicaltrials.gov (NCT01714440).
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- Tam T Nguyen
- College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.,Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Complex Care Core Analytics, Fairview University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Social and Administrative Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Penn Transplant Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation and Division of Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Nephrology, School of Medicine, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA
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- Division of Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN, USA.,Epidemiology & Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Mohamed ME, Schladt DP, Guan W, Wu B, van Setten J, Keating B, Iklé D, Remmel RP, Dorr CR, Mannon RB, Matas AJ, Israni AK, Oetting WS, Jacobson PA. Tacrolimus troughs and genetic determinants of metabolism in kidney transplant recipients: A comparison of four ancestry groups. Am J Transplant 2019; 19:2795-2804. [PMID: 30953600 PMCID: PMC6763344 DOI: 10.1111/ajt.15385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2018] [Revised: 03/04/2019] [Accepted: 03/28/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Tacrolimus trough and dose requirements vary dramatically between individuals of European and African American ancestry. These differences are less well described in other populations. We conducted an observational, prospective, multicenter study from which 2595 kidney transplant recipients of European, African, Native American, and Asian ancestry were studied for tacrolimus trough, doses, and genetic determinants of metabolism. We studied the well-known variants and conducted a CYP3A4/5 gene-wide analysis to identify new variants. Daily doses, and dose-normalized troughs were significantly different between the four groups (P < .001). CYP3A5*3 (rs776746) was associated with higher dose-normalized tacrolimus troughs in all groups but occurred at different allele frequencies and had differing effect sizes. The CYP3A5*6 (rs10264272) and *7 (rs413003343) variants were only present in African Americans. CYP3A4*22 (rs35599367) was not found in any of the Asian ancestry samples. We identified seven suggestive variants in the CYP3A4/5 genes associated with dose-normalized troughs in Native Americans (P = 1.1 × 10-5 -8.8 × 10-6 ) and one suggestive variant in Asian Americans (P = 5.6 × 10-6 ). Tacrolimus daily doses and dose-normalized troughs vary significantly among different ancestry groups. We identified potential new variants important in Asians and Native Americans. Studies with larger populations should be conducted to assess the importance of the identified suggestive variants.
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- Moataz E. Mohamed
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA,Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, USA,Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, USA,Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN,Department of Epidemiology & Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Birnbaum AK, Karanam A, Marino SE, Barkley CM, Remmel RP, Roslawski M, Gramling‐Aden M, Leppik IE. Food effect on pharmacokinetics of cannabidiol oral capsules in adult patients with refractory epilepsy. Epilepsia 2019; 60:1586-1592. [DOI: 10.1111/epi.16093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2019] [Revised: 06/01/2019] [Accepted: 06/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Angela K. Birnbaum
- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology College of Pharmacy University of Minnesota Minneapolis Minnesota
- Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuropharmacology College of Pharmacy University of Minnesota Minneapolis Minnesota
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology College of Pharmacy University of Minnesota Minneapolis Minnesota
- Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuropharmacology College of Pharmacy University of Minnesota Minneapolis Minnesota
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology College of Pharmacy University of Minnesota Minneapolis Minnesota
- Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuropharmacology College of Pharmacy University of Minnesota Minneapolis Minnesota
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology College of Pharmacy University of Minnesota Minneapolis Minnesota
- Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuropharmacology College of Pharmacy University of Minnesota Minneapolis Minnesota
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology College of Pharmacy University of Minnesota Minneapolis Minnesota
- Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuropharmacology College of Pharmacy University of Minnesota Minneapolis Minnesota
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology College of Pharmacy University of Minnesota Minneapolis Minnesota
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- MINCEP Epilepsy Care University of Minnesota Physicians Minneapolis Minnesota
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology College of Pharmacy University of Minnesota Minneapolis Minnesota
- Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuropharmacology College of Pharmacy University of Minnesota Minneapolis Minnesota
- MINCEP Epilepsy Care University of Minnesota Physicians Minneapolis Minnesota
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Wu JF, Muthusamy A, Al-Ghalith GA, Knights D, Guo B, Wu B, Remmel RP, Schladt DP, Alegre ML, Oetting WS, Jacobson PA, Israni AK. Urinary microbiome associated with chronic allograft dysfunction in kidney transplant recipients. Clin Transplant 2018; 32:e13436. [PMID: 30372560 PMCID: PMC6984979 DOI: 10.1111/ctr.13436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2018] [Revised: 09/14/2018] [Accepted: 10/21/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND We performed a study to identify differences in the urinary microbiome associated with chronic allograft dysfunction (CAD) and compared the urinary microbiome of male and female transplant recipients with CAD. METHODS This case-control study enrolled 67 patients within the Deterioration of Kidney Allograft Function (DeKAF) Genomics cohort at two transplant centers. CAD was defined as a greater than 25% rise in serum creatinine relative to a 3 month post-transplant baseline. Urine samples from patients with and without CAD were analyzed using 16S V4 bacterial ribosomal DNA sequences. RESULTS Corynebacterium was more prevalent in female and male patients with CAD compared to non-CAD female patients (P = 0.0005). A total 21 distinct Operational Taxonomic Unit (OTUs) were identified as significantly different when comparing CAD and non-CAD patients using Kruskal-Wallis (P < 0.01). A subset analysis of female patients with CAD compared to non-CAD females identified similar differentially abundant OTUs, including the genera Corynebacterium and Staphylococcus (Kruskal-Wallis; P = 0.01; P = 0.004, respectively). Male CAD vs female CAD analysis showed greater abundance of phylum Proteobacteria in males. CONCLUSION There were differences in the urinary microbiome when comparing female and male CAD patients with their female non-CAD counterparts and these differences persisted in the subset analysis limited to female patients only.
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- Jennifer F. Wu
- Department of Medicine, Nephrology Division, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Computer Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Rheumatology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Medicine, Nephrology Division, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN
- Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN
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Seibert SR, Schladt DP, Wu B, Guan W, Dorr C, Remmel RP, Matas AJ, Mannon RB, Israni AK, Oetting WS, Jacobson PA. Tacrolimus trough and dose intra-patient variability and CYP3A5 genotype: Effects on acute rejection and graft failure in European American and African American kidney transplant recipients. Clin Transplant 2018; 32:e13424. [PMID: 30318646 PMCID: PMC6317347 DOI: 10.1111/ctr.13424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2018] [Revised: 09/18/2018] [Accepted: 10/08/2018] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Suboptimal immunosuppression after kidney transplantation contributes to toxicity and loss of efficacy. Little is known regarding the impact of intra-patient variability of tacrolimus (TAC) doses and troughs in the early post-transplant period or the influence of genetic variants on variability. METHODS Coefficients of variation (CV) of TAC troughs and doses of 1226 European American (EA) and 246 African American (AA) adult recipients enrolled in DeKAF Genomics were compared for association with acute rejection and graft failure. Additionally, the influence of recipients' number of CYP3A5 loss-of-function alleles was assessed. RESULTS Acute rejection was associated with greater CV of dose in AA (P < 0.001) and EA recipients (P = 0.012). Graft failure was associated with a greater CV of dose (P = 0.022) and trough (P < 0.001) in AA, and higher CV of trough (P = 0.024) in EA recipients. In EA, CYP3A5 loss-of-function alleles were associated with decreased CV of trough (P = 0.0042) and increased CV of dose (P < 0.0001). CONCLUSION CYP3A5 loss-of-function alleles influence intra-patient TAC trough and dose variability. High variability of TAC dose increases risk of acute rejection. High variability of TAC trough increases risk of graft failure. Early clinical recognition of TAC dose and trough variability may improve patient management and outcomes.
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- Stephan R Seibert
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Nephrology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama
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- Division of Nephrology, Hennepin County Medical Center, Epidemiology & Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Polepally AR, Brundage RC, Remmel RP, Leppik IE, Pennell PB, White JR, Ramsay RE, Kistner BM, Birnbaum AK. Lamotrigine pharmacokinetics following oral and stable-labeled intravenous administration in young and elderly adult epilepsy patients: Effect of age. Epilepsia 2018; 59:1718-1726. [PMID: 30101556 DOI: 10.1111/epi.14519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2018] [Revised: 06/29/2018] [Accepted: 06/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to investigate the effect of age on pharmacokinetic parameters of lamotrigine (LTG) and estimate parameter variability. METHODS Patients (>18 years old) who were already on a steady-state dose of LTG therapy with no interacting comedications were enrolled. Patients with significant cardiac disease, severe kidney dysfunction, or moderate-to-severe liver dysfunction were excluded. Fifty milligrams of a stable-labeled intravenous LTG formulation (SL-LTG) replaced 50 mg of a patient's normal daily oral LTG dose. Thirteen blood samples were collected in each person over 96 hours. SL-LTG and unlabeled LTG concentrations were measured simultaneously by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Concentration-time data were analyzed by nonlinear mixed-effects modeling (NONMEM version 7.3). RESULTS Twenty-eight patients representing 16 young (18-48 years old) and 12 elderly (63-87 years old) patients were included, yielding 382 unlabeled and 351 SL-LTG concentrations. A two-compartment model with first-order absorption and elimination adequately described the plasma concentration-time data. Bioavailability of oral LTG was approximately 74% and did not differ by age. LTG clearance was 27.2% lower in elderly than in young patients (1.80 L/h for a 70-kg patient). SIGNIFICANCE Although LTG bioavailability was not affected by age, LTG clearance was 27.2% lower in elderly versus young patients of comparable body weight, possibly indicating lower dosages being needed in this population.
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- Akshanth R Polepally
- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.,Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Neurology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Oetting WS, Wu B, Schladt DP, Guan W, Remmel RP, Dorr C, Mannon RB, Matas AJ, Israni AK, Jacobson PA. Attempted validation of 44 reported SNPs associated with tacrolimus troughs in a cohort of kidney allograft recipients. Pharmacogenomics 2018; 19:175-184. [PMID: 29318894 PMCID: PMC6021962 DOI: 10.2217/pgs-2017-0187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2017] [Accepted: 12/15/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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AIM Multiple genetic variants have been associated with variation in tacrolimus (TAC) trough concentrations. Unfortunately, additional studies do not confirm these associations, leading one to question if a reported association is accurate and reliable. We attempted to validate 44 published variants associated with TAC trough concentrations. MATERIALS & METHODS Genotypes of the variants in our cohort of 1923 kidney allograft recipients were associated with TAC trough concentrations. RESULTS Only variants in CYP3A4 and CYP3A5 were significantly associated with variation in TAC trough concentrations in our validation. CONCLUSION There is no evidence that common variants outside the CYP3A4 and CYP3A5 loci are associated with variation in TAC trough concentrations. In the future rare variants may be important and identified using DNA sequencing.
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- William S Oetting
- Department of Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55404, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55404, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Division of Nephrology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55404, USA
- Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55415, USA
- Department of Epidemiology & Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Oetting WS, Wu B, Schladt DP, Guan W, Remmel RP, Mannon RB, Matas AJ, Israni AK, Jacobson PA. Genome-wide association study identifies the common variants in CYP3A4 and CYP3A5 responsible for variation in tacrolimus trough concentration in Caucasian kidney transplant recipients. Pharmacogenomics J 2017; 18:501-505. [PMID: 29160300 DOI: 10.1038/tpj.2017.49] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2017] [Revised: 06/23/2017] [Accepted: 09/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
The immunosuppressant tacrolimus (TAC) is metabolized by both cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4) and CYP3A5 enzymes. It is common for European Americans (EA) to carry two CYP3A5 loss-of-function (LoF) variants that profoundly reduces TAC metabolism. Despite having two LoF alleles, there is still considerable variability in TAC troughs and identifying additional variants in genes outside of the CYP3A5 gene could provide insight into this variability. We analyzed TAC trough concentrations in 1345 adult EA recipients with two CYP3A5 LoF alleles in a genome-wide association study. Only CYP3A4*22 was identified and no additional variants were genome-wide significant. Additional high allele frequency genetic variants with strong genetic effects associated with TAC trough variability are unlikely to be associated with TAC variation in the EA population. These data suggest that low allele frequency variants, identified by DNA sequencing, should be evaluated and may identify additional variants that contribute to TAC pharmacokinetic variability.
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- W S Oetting
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Division of Nephrology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, USA.,Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA.,Department of Epidemiology & Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Dorr CR, Remmel RP, Muthusamy A, Fisher J, Moriarity BS, Yasuda K, Wu B, Guan W, Schuetz EG, Oetting WS, Jacobson PA, Israni AK. CRISPR/Cas9 Genetic Modification of CYP3A5 *3 in HuH-7 Human Hepatocyte Cell Line Leads to Cell Lines with Increased Midazolam and Tacrolimus Metabolism. Drug Metab Dispos 2017; 45:957-965. [PMID: 28533324 DOI: 10.1124/dmd.117.076307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2017] [Accepted: 05/18/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 engineering of the CYP3A5 *3 locus (rs776746) in human liver cell line HuH-7 (CYP3A5 *3/*3) has led to three CYP3A5 *1 cell lines by deletion of the exon 3B splice junction or point mutation. Cell lines CYP3A5 *1/*3 sd (single deletion), CYP3A5 *1/*1 dd (double deletion), or CYP3A5 *1/*3 pm (point mutation) expressed the CYP3A5 *1 mRNA and had elevated CYP3A5 mRNA (P < 0.0005 for all engineered cell lines) and protein expression compared with HuH-7. In metabolism assays, HuH-7 had less tacrolimus (all P < 0.05) or midazolam (MDZ) (all P < 0.005) disappearance than all engineered cell lines. HuH-7 had less 1-OH MDZ (all P < 0.0005) or 4-OH (all P < 0.005) production in metabolism assays than all bioengineered cell lines. We confirmed CYP3A5 metabolic activity with the CYP3A4 selective inhibitor CYP3CIDE. This is the first report of genomic CYP3A5 bioengineering in human cell lines with drug metabolism analysis.
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- Casey R Dorr
- Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Sanghavi K, Brundage RC, Miller MB, Schladt DP, Israni AK, Guan W, Oetting WS, Mannon RB, Remmel RP, Matas AJ, Jacobson PA. Genotype-guided tacrolimus dosing in African-American kidney transplant recipients. Pharmacogenomics J 2015; 17:61-68. [PMID: 26667830 PMCID: PMC4909584 DOI: 10.1038/tpj.2015.87] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2015] [Revised: 10/07/2015] [Accepted: 11/02/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Tacrolimus is dependent on CYP3A5 enzyme for metabolism. Expression of the CYP3A5 enzyme is controlled by several alleles including CYP3A5*1, CYP3A5*3, CYP3A5*6 and CYP3A5*7. African Americans (AAs) have on average higher tacrolimus dose requirements than Caucasians; however, some have requirements similar to Caucasians. Studies in AAs have primarily evaluated the CYP3A5*3 variant; however, there are other common nonfunctional variants in AAs (CYP3A5*6 and CYP3A5*7) that do not occur in Caucasians. These variants are associated with lower dose requirements and may explain why some AAs are metabolically similar to Caucasians. We created a tacrolimus clearance model in 354 AAs using a development and validation cohort. Time after transplant, steroid and antiviral use, age and CYP3A5*1, *3, *6 and *7 alleles were significant toward clearance. This study is the first to develop an AA-specific genotype-guided tacrolimus dosing model to personalize therapy.
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- K Sanghavi
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Nephrology and Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Nephrology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Polepally AR, Remmel RP, Brundage RC, Leppik IE, Rarick JO, Ramsay RE, Birnbaum AK. Steady-state pharmacokinetics and bioavailability of immediate-release and extended-release formulations of lamotrigine in elderly epilepsy patients: Use of stable isotope methodology. J Clin Pharmacol 2015; 55:1101-8. [PMID: 25903807 DOI: 10.1002/jcph.522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2014] [Accepted: 04/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Abstract
A classic 2-period crossover bioavailability study was conducted to evaluate the relative and absolute bioavailability of immediate-release (IR) and extended-release (XR) lamotrigine formulations under steady-state conditions in elderly patients with epilepsy. On treatment days, each subject's morning dose (IR or XR lamotrigine) was replaced with an intravenous 50-mg dose of stable-labeled lamotrigine. Lamotrigine concentrations were measured at 13 points between 0 and 96 hours. XR and IR lamotrigine formulations were similar with respect to steady-state area under the concentration-time curve from 0 to 24 hours (AUC0-24 h ss), average concentration (Cavg, ss), and trough concentration (Cτ, ss). A 33% lower fluctuation in concentrations with XR was observed relative to IR lamotrigine. The time to peak concentration (Tmax, ss) was delayed for XR lamotrigine (3.0 vs 1.3 hours) with lower peak concentration (15% lower). The absolute bioavailability for IR and XR formulations was 73% and 92%, respectively. The formulations were bioequivalent with respect to AUC0-24 h ss, Cτ, ss, and Cavg, ss indicating that it may be possible to switch directly from IR to XR lamotrigine without changes in the total daily dose.
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- Akshanth R Polepally
- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.,Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Ochsner Baptist Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, USA.,University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Pulk RA, Schladt DS, Oetting WS, Guan W, Israni AK, Matas AJ, Remmel RP, Jacobson PA. Multigene predictors of tacrolimus exposure in kidney transplant recipients. Pharmacogenomics 2015; 16:841-54. [PMID: 26067485 DOI: 10.2217/pgs.15.42] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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AIM Determine the effect of the genetic variants beyond CYP3A5*3 on tacrolimus disposition. PATIENTS & METHODS We studied genetic correlates of tacrolimus trough concentrations with POR*28, CYP3A4*22 and ABCC2 haplotypes in a large, ethnically diverse kidney transplant cohort (n = 2008). RESULTS Subjects carrying one or more CYP3A5*1 alleles had lower tacrolimus trough concentrations (p = 9.2 × 10(-75)). The presence of one or two POR*28 alleles was associated with a 4.63% reduction in tacrolimus trough concentrations after adjusting for CYP3A5*1 and clinical factors (p = 0.037). In subset analyses, POR*28 was significant only in CYP3A5*3/*3 carriers (p = 0.03). The CYP3A4*22 variant and the ABBC2 haplotypes were not associated. CONCLUSION This study confirmed that CYP3A5*1 was associated with lower tacrolimus trough concentrations. POR*28 was associated with decreased tacrolimus trough concentrations although the effect was small possibly through enhanced CYP3A4 enzyme activity. CYP3A4*22 and ABCC2 haplotypes did not influence tacrolimus trough concentrations. Original submitted 19 December 2014; Revision submitted 2 April 2015.
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- Rebecca A Pulk
- Department of Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Nephrology & Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Hennepin County Medical Center, MN, USA
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- Department of Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
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- Department of Nephrology & Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Hennepin County Medical Center, MN, USA
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- Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
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- Department of Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Conway JM, Birnbaum AK, Leppik IE, Pennell PB, White JR, Rarick JO, Remmel RP. Safety of an intravenous formulation of lamotrigine. Seizure 2014; 23:390-2. [PMID: 24560492 DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2014.01.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2013] [Revised: 01/23/2014] [Accepted: 01/24/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Intravenous (IV) formulations are useful when treating patients where oral administration is not possible and to study certain pharmacokinetic parameters such as bioavailability. We developed a stable-labeled IV formulation of lamotrigine (LTG) for studying pharmacokinetics in epilepsy patients. METHODS Stable-labeled IV LTG was given to 20 persons with epilepsy (6 men; 14 women) with a mean age of 34.8 years (SD 11.7). A 50mg dose of LTG (stable labeled) was given intravenously and replaced 50mg of the regular morning oral dose of LTG (unlabeled, commercially available formulation). RESULTS No significant changes in blood pressure, heart rate, or adverse events including rash were attributed to administration of a 50-mg dose of the intravenous LTG formulation. CONCLUSION Our results show that LTG base that is complexed with 2-hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin and stable-labeled can be given safely as a tracer replacement dose.
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- Jeannine M Conway
- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, 308 Harvard Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, 308 Harvard Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States.
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, 308 Harvard Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States; Department of Neurology, 420 Delaware St. SE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States; MINCEP Epilepsy Care, 5775 Wayzata Boulevard, Minneapolis, MN 55416, United States
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- Department of Neurology and Division of Women's Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, United States
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- MINCEP Epilepsy Care, 5775 Wayzata Boulevard, Minneapolis, MN 55416, United States
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, 308 Harvard Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, 308 Harvard Street SE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, MN, United States
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Kumar A, Mann HJ, Remmel RP, Beilman GJ, Kaila N. Pharmacokinetic study in pigs andin vitrometabolic characterization in pig- and human-liver microsomes reveal marked differences in disposition and metabolism of tiletamine and zolazepam (Telazol). Xenobiotica 2013; 44:379-90. [DOI: 10.3109/00498254.2013.833362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Teitelbaum AM, Meissner A, Harding RA, Wong CA, Aldrich CC, Remmel RP. Synthesis, pH-dependent, and plasma stability of meropenem prodrugs for potential use against drug-resistant tuberculosis. Bioorg Med Chem 2013; 21:5605-17. [PMID: 23845282 PMCID: PMC3740032 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2013.05.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2013] [Revised: 05/04/2013] [Accepted: 05/15/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Meropenem, a broad-spectrum parenteral β-lactam antibiotic, in combination with clavulanate has recently shown efficacy in patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis. As a result of meropenem's short half-life and lack of oral bioavailability, the development of an oral therapy is warranted for TB treatment in underserved countries where chronic parenteral therapy is impractical. To improve the oral absorption of meropenem, several alkyloxycarbonyloxyalkyl ester prodrugs with increased lipophilicity were synthesized and their stability in physiological aqueous solutions and guinea pig as well as human plasma was evaluated. The stability of prodrugs in aqueous solution at pH 6.0 and 7.4 was significantly dependent on the ester promoiety with the major degradation product identified as the parent compound meropenem. However, in simulated gastrointestinal fluid (pH 1.2) the major degradation product identified was ring-opened meropenem with the promoiety still intact, suggesting the gastrointestinal environment may reduce the absorption of meropenem prodrugs in vivo unless administered as an enteric-coated formulation. Additionally, the stability of the most aqueous stable prodrugs in guinea pig or human plasma was short, implying a rapid release of parent meropenem.
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- Aaron M. Teitelbaum
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
- Center for Drug Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, MN 55455
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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- Center for Drug Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, MN 55455
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- Center for Drug Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, MN 55455
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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Puranik YG, Birnbaum AK, Marino SE, Ahmed G, Cloyd JC, Remmel RP, Leppik IE, Lamba JK. Association of carbamazepine major metabolism and transport pathway gene polymorphisms and pharmacokinetics in patients with epilepsy. Pharmacogenomics 2013; 14:35-45. [PMID: 23252947 PMCID: PMC3570048 DOI: 10.2217/pgs.12.180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of genetic variants in the major genes involved in carbamazepine (CBZ) metabolism and transport with its pharmacokinetics in epilepsy patients. MATERIALS & METHODS Twenty-five SNPs within seven CBZ pathway genes, namely CYP3A4, CYP3A5, EPHX1, NR1I2, UGT2B7, ABCB1 and ABCC2, were analyzed for association with CBZ pharmacokinetics in 90 epilepsy patients. RESULTS The CYP3A4*1B SNP was significantly associated with CBZ clearance. Significant association of EPHX1 SNPs was observed with greater carbamazepine-10,11-trans dihydrodiol:carbamazepine 10-11 epoxide ratios. Among drug transporters, ABCB1 and ABCC2 SNPs were significantly associated with altered CBZ clearance. CONCLUSION SNPs within CBZ pathway genes contribute to interpatient variation in CBZ pharmacokinetics and might contribute to pharmacoresistant epilepsy. Although our results need further clinical validation in a larger patient cohort, they indicate that genetic variation in CBZ pathway genes could influence its pharmacokinetics, and hence would have clinical significance.
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- Yogita Ghodke Puranik
- Department of Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Center for Clinical & Cognitive Neuropharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Center for Clinical & Cognitive Neuropharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Center for Orphan Drug Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- MINCEP Epilepsy Care, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- PUMA-Institute of Personalized Medicine, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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A xenogeneic hollow fiber bioreactor utilizing collagen-entrapped dispersed hepatocytes has been developed as an extracorporeal bioartificial liver (BAL) for potential treatment of acute human fulminant hepatitis. Prolonged viability, enhanced liver-specific functions, and differentiated state have been observed in primary porcine hepatocytes cultivated as spheroids compared to dispersed hepatocytes plated on a monolayer. Entrapment of spheroids into the BAL can potentially improve performance over the existing device. Therefore, studies were conducted to evaluate the feasibility of utilizing spheroids as the functionally active component of our hybrid device. Confocal microscopy indicated high viability of spheroids entrapped into cylindrical collagen gel. Entrapment of spheroids alone into collagen gel showed reduced ability to contract collagen gel. By mixing spheroids with dispersed cells, the extent of collagen gel contraction was increased. Hepatocyte spheroids collagen-entrapped into BAL devices were maintained for over 9 days. Assessment of albumin synthesis and ureagenesis within a spheroid-entrapment BAL indicated higher or at least as high activity on a per-cell basis compared to a dispersed hepatocyte-entrapment BAL device. Clearance of 4-methylumbelliferone to its glucuronide was detected throughout the culture period as a marker of phase II conjugation activity. A spheroid-entrapment bioartificial liver warrants further studies for potential human therapy. (c) 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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- F J Wu
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Ave. S.E., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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Hu WS, Friend JR, Wu FJ, Sielaff T, Peshwa MV, Lazar A, Nyberg SL, Remmel RP, Cerra FB. Development of a bioartificial liver employing xenogeneic hepatocytes. Cytotechnology 2012; 23:29-38. [PMID: 22358518 DOI: 10.1023/a:1007906512616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Liver failure is a major cause of mortality. A bioartificial liver (BAL) employing isolated hepatocytes can potentially provide temporary support for liver failure patients. We have developed a bioartificial liver by entrapping hepatocytes in collagen loaded in the luminal side of a hollow fiber bioreactor. In the first phase of development, liver-specific metabolic activities of biosynthesis, biotransformation and conjugation were demonstrated. Subsequently anhepatic rabbits were used to show that rat hepatocytes continued to function after the BAL was linked to the test animal. For scale-up studies, a canine liver failure model was developed using D-galactosamine overdose. In order to secure a sufficient number of hepatocytes for large animal treatment, a collagenase perfusion protocol was established for harvesting porcine hepatocytes at high yield and viability. An instrumented bioreactor system, which included dissolved oxygen measurement, pH control, flow rate control, an oxygenator and two hollow fiber bioreactors in series, was used for these studies. An improved survival of dogs treated with the BAL was shown over the controls. In anticipated clinical applications, it is desirable to have the liver-specific activities in the BAL as high as possible. To that end, the possibility of employing hepatocyte spheroids was explored. These self-assembled spheroids formed from monolayer culture exhibited higher liver-specific functions and remained viable longer than hepatocytes in a monolayer. To ease the surface requirement for large-scale preparation of hepatocyte spheroids, we succeeded in inducing spheroid formation in stirred tank bioreactors for both rat and porcine hepatocytes. These spheroids formed in stirred tanks were shown to be morphologically and functionally indistinguishable from those formed from a monolayer. Collagen entrapment of these spheroids resulted in sustaining their liver-specific functions at higher levels even longer than those of spheroids maintained in suspension. For use in the BAL, a mixture of spheroids and dispersed hepatocytes was used to ensure a proper degree of collagen gel contraction. This mixture of spheroids and dispersed cells entrapped in the BAL was shown to sustain the high level of liver-specific functions. The possibility of employing such a BAL for improved clinical performance warrants further investigations.
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- W S Hu
- Departments of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455-0132
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Conway JM, Birnbaum AK, Marino SE, Cloyd JC, Remmel RP. A sensitive capillary GC-MS method for analysis of topiramate from plasma obtained from single-dose studies. Biomed Chromatogr 2012; 26:1071-6. [PMID: 22223467 DOI: 10.1002/bmc.1749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2011] [Accepted: 10/06/2011] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Topiramate (Topamax®) is an antiepileptic medication used as adjunctive and monotherapy in patients with epilepsy and for migraine prophylaxis. A GC-MS assay was developed that was capable of detecting topiramate plasma concentrations following a single rectal or oral dose administration. Topiramate plasma samples were prepared by solid-phase extraction and were quantified by GC-MS analysis. The topiramate standard curves were split from 0.1 to 4 µg/mL and from 4 to 40 µg/mL in order to give a more accurate determination of the topiramate concentration. The accuracy of the standards ranged from 94.6 to 107.3% and the precision (%CV) ranged from 1.0 to 5.3% for both curves at all concentrations. The %CV for quality controls was <7.6%. The assay is both accurate and precise and will be used to complete future pharmacokinetic studies.
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- Jeannine M Conway
- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Aim: To investigate the effects of two nonsynonymous SNPs, UGT1A4*2 (rs#: 6755571, 70C>A, P24T) and UGT1A4*3 (rs#: 2011425, 142T>G, L48V), on the function of UGT1A4 against dihydrotestosterone (DHT), transandrosterone (t-AND), lamotrigine (LTG) and tamoxifen (TAM). Materials & methods: Detailed kinetic experiments were conducted with recombinant UGT1A4wild-type, UGT1A4P24T and UGT1A4L48V, which were overexpressed in HEK293 cell lines. The kinetic profiles and kinetic parameters (Km, Vmax and CLint) obtained with either UGT1A4P24T or UGT1A4L48V were compared with those obtained with the wild-type enzyme. The interaction of TAM on UG1A4-catalyzed DHT glucuronidation was also investigated with the three UGT1A4 polymorphic enzymes. Results: UGT1A4L48V had higher enzyme efficiency (CLint) compared with wild-type UGT1A4 on DHT glucuronidation; UGT1A4P24T and UGT1A4L48V had lower CLint than wild-type UGT1A4 for t-AND and LTG glucuronidation. The TAM CLint with UGT1A4P24T and UGT1A4L48V glucuronidation and the UGT1A4P24T-catalyzed DHT glucuronidation were, on the other hand, similar to those of the wild-type enzyme. With all three enzymes, TAM activated UGT1A4-catalyzed DHT glucuronidation in a concentration-dependent fashion. Conclusion: Decreased CLint of UGT1A4P24T and UGT1A4L48V on LTG glucuronidation may lead to interindividual variations in LTG metabolism in vivo. However, it is less likely that these polymorphisms would have impact on DHT and t-AND metabolism in vivo because these compounds are glucuronidated by multiple enzymes. Original submitted 31 May 2011; Revision submitted 19 July 2011
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- Jin Zhou
- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Ridgefield, CT, 06877, USA
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- Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Vasan M, Neres J, Williams J, Wilson DJ, Teitelbaum AM, Remmel RP, Aldrich CC. Inhibitors of the salicylate synthase (MbtI) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis discovered by high-throughput screening. ChemMedChem 2011; 5:2079-87. [PMID: 21053346 DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.201000275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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A simple steady-state kinetic high-throughput assay was developed for the salicylate synthase MbtI from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which catalyzes the first committed step of mycobactin biosynthesis. The mycobactins are small-molecule iron chelators produced by M. tuberculosis, and their biosynthesis has been identified as a promising target for the development of new antitubercular agents. The assay was miniaturized to a 384-well plate format and high-throughput screening was performed at the National Screening Laboratory for the Regional Centers of Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases (NSRB). Three classes of compounds were identified comprising the benzisothiazolones (class I), diarylsulfones (class II), and benzimidazole-2-thiones (class III). Each of these compound series was further pursued to investigate their biochemical mechanism and structure-activity relationships. Benzimidazole-2-thione 4 emerged as the most promising inhibitor owing to its potent reversible inhibition.
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- Mahalakshmi Vasan
- Center for Drug Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455, USA
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Zhou J, Tracy TS, Remmel RP. Correlation between bilirubin glucuronidation and estradiol-3-gluronidation in the presence of model UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1A1 substrates/inhibitors. Drug Metab Dispos 2010; 39:322-9. [PMID: 21030469 DOI: 10.1124/dmd.110.035030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Inhibition of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) 1A1-catalyzed bilirubin glucuronidation by drug compounds may potentially be of clinical concern. However, in drug discovery and development settings, bilirubin is less than an ideal in vitro probe for assessing the potential of a chemical entity to inhibit bilirubin glucuronidation. In part, this is due to the propensity of bilirubin to photodegrade and to the instability of its metabolites. To this end, the utility of estradiol-3-glucuronidation as a surrogate in vitro predictor for interactions with bilirubin was evaluated. The glucuronidation kinetics of bilirubin and estradiol were carefully characterized with recombinant UGT1A1 expressed in human embryonic kidney 293 cells. Consistent with previous reports, estradiol-3-glucuronidation displayed sigmoidal kinetics, whereas bilirubin glucuronidation exhibited typical hyperbolic kinetics. The two compounds also mutually inhibited the metabolism of the other. Sixteen UGT1A1 substrates/inhibitors were evaluated as effectors of each reaction. Fourteen compounds inhibited both bilirubin and estradiol glucuronidation. However, two compounds (ethinylestradiol and daidzein) exhibited mixed effects (concentration-dependent activation and inhibition) on estradiol-3-glucuronidation, whereas bilirubin glucuronidation was inhibited by both compounds. In addition, 7-ethyl-10-hydroxycamptothecin, a substrate of UGT1A1 (reported K(m) = 24 μM) seemed to be a weak inhibitor of bilirubin glucuronidation (IC(50) = 356.4 μM) but a partial inhibitor of estradiol-3-glucuronidation. The IC(50) values of the inhibitors against estradiol-3-glucuronidation were strongly correlated with IC(50) values against bilirubin glucuronidation, resulting in an R(2) value of 0.9604 (activator excluded) or 0.8287 (activator included). Thus, estradiol-3-glucuronidation can serve as a good surrogate for predicting inhibition of bilirubin glucuronidation with the caveat that occasionally compounds may demonstrate activation of estradiol-3-glucuronidation.
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- Jin Zhou
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Zhou J, Tracy TS, Remmel RP. Bilirubin glucuronidation revisited: proper assay conditions to estimate enzyme kinetics with recombinant UGT1A1. Drug Metab Dispos 2010; 38:1907-11. [PMID: 20668247 DOI: 10.1124/dmd.110.033829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Bilirubin, an end product of heme catabolism, is primarily eliminated via glucuronic acid conjugation by UGT1A1. Impaired bilirubin conjugation, caused by inhibition of UGT1A1, can result in clinical consequences, including jaundice and kernicterus. Thus, evaluation of the ability of new drug candidates to inhibit UGT1A1-catalyzed bilirubin glucuronidation in vitro has become common practice. However, the instability of bilirubin and its glucuronides presents substantial technical challenges to conduct in vitro bilirubin glucuronidation assays. Furthermore, because bilirubin can be diglucuronidated through a sequential reaction, establishment of initial rate conditions can be problematic. To address these issues, a robust high-performance liquid chromatography assay to measure both bilirubin mono- and diglucuronide conjugates was developed, and the incubation conditions for bilirubin glucuronidation by human embryonic kidney 293-expressed UGT1A1 were carefully characterized. Our results indicated that bilirubin glucuronidation should be assessed at very low protein concentrations (0.05 mg/ml protein) and over a short incubation time (5 min) to assure initial rate conditions. Under these conditions, bilirubin total glucuronide formation exhibited a hyperbolic (Michaelis-Menten) kinetic profile with a K(m) of ∼0.2 μM. In addition, under these initial rate conditions, the relative proportions between the total monoglucuronide and the diglucuronide product were constant across the range of bilirubin concentration evaluated (0.05-2 μM), with the monoglucuronide being the predominant species (∼70%). In conclusion, establishment of appropriate incubation conditions (i.e., very low protein concentrations and short incubation times) is necessary to properly characterize the kinetics of bilirubin glucuronidation in a recombinant UGT1A1 system.
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- Jin Zhou
- College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, 308 Harvard St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Milani M, Mitra R, Jha G, Rodriguez M, Guo Z, Weller D, Remmel RP, Potter DA. Abstract 4444: Desthiazolylmethyloxycarbonyl ritonavir is a candidate proteasome activator drug in breast cancer that down-regulates survivin and HER2. Cancer Res 2010. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am10-4444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Purpose: Desthiazolylmethyloxycarbonyl ritonavir (M1) is a minor metabolite of ritonavir, but exhibits more potent activity against ER+, HER2+ and triple negative breast cancer lines. The mechanisms of action of M1 are unknown and may be very different from ritonavir. This study investigates M1 effects on proteasome activity and unfolded protein response (UPR), which have been identified as ritonavir targets.
Methods: Assays for cell growth, cell cycle progression and apoptosis were used to determine the mechanisms of M1 action in ER+ (T47D), HER2+ (SKBR3) and triple negative (MDA-MB-231) breast cancer lines. Effects of M1 on proteasome activity were determined by biochemical and cell-based luciferase assays. Effects of M1 on proteasome substrates and the UPR were determined by Western blotting and flow cytometry. Effects of M1 in vivo were determined using a xenograft model.
Results: M1, compared to ritonavir, exhibited a significantly lower IC50 for the T47D, MDA-MB-231 and SKBR3 lines, but a higher IC50 for the non-transformed line MCF10A, indicating M1 selectivity for breast cancer. M1 induced a G0/G1 block and apoptosis in all lines tested. M1 at its IC50 significantly reduced survivin levels in the T47D and MDA-MB-231 lines, and surface HER2 in the SKBR3 line. However, it did not affect the expression of other short half-life antiapoptotic proteins, including MCL-1 and Bcl-2. In vivo, M1 inhibited the MDA-MB-231 xenograft at its maximum tolerated dose (MTD, 20 mg/kg), while ritonavir exhibited no effect at this dosing, which is half of its MTD. 1 h following M1 ip administration, M1 plasma levels were measurable (3.6 ± 2.3 microM). In contrast, ritonavir administration resulted in M1 levels that were at or below the limit of detection, indicating that M1 plasma levels associated with tumor response cannot be achieved with identical dosing of ritonavir. Remarkably, M1 up-regulated the chymotryptic, tryptic and caspase-like activities of the purified 20S proteasome, whereas ritonavir did not. M1 also up-regulated the proteasome chymotryptic site in breast cancer cells. Furthermore, M1 activation of the proteasome was abrogated by lactacystin or MG132. Sp3, a survivin transcription factor that is known to be degraded by the proteasome, was reduced in M1-treated MDA-MB-231 cells (P<0.05). M1 induced the UPR marker GRP78 (BiP) in the MDA-MB-231 line, but not in the T47D line, suggesting that the UPR response did not directly correlate with growth inhibition.
Conclusions: M1 is more potent than ritonavir in vitro and in vivo and, in contrast to ritonavir, is an activator of the proteasome, suggesting a novel mechanism of anticancer activity. Survivin may be an important target of M1 in ER+ and triple negative breast cancer, while HER2 is a target in HER2+ breast cancer. M1, a candidate HIV protease inhibitor derivative, is promising for clinical development in breast cancer.
Citation Format: {Authors}. {Abstract title} [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2010 Apr 17-21; Washington, DC. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2010;70(8 Suppl):Abstract nr 4444.
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A transgenic 'knock-in' mouse model expressing a human UGT1 locus (Tg-UGT1) was recently developed and validated. Although these animals express mouse UGT1A proteins, UGT1A4 is a pseudo-gene in mice. Therefore, Tg-UGT1 mice serve as a 'humanized' UGT1A4 animal model. Lamotrigine (LTG) is primarily metabolized to its N-glucuronide (LTGG) by hUGT1A4. This investigation aimed at examining the impact of pregnane X receptor (PXR), constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) activators on LTG glucuronidation in vivo and in vitro. Tg-UGT1 mice were administered the inducers phenobarbital (CAR), pregnenolone-16alpha-carbonitrile (PXR), WY-14643 (PPAR-alpha), ciglitazone (PPAR-gamma), or L-165041 (PPAR-beta), once daily for 3 or 4 days. Thereafter, LTG was administered orally and blood samples were collected over 24 h. LTG was measured in blood and formation of LTGG was measured in pooled microsomes made from the livers of treated animals. A three-fold increase in in vivo LTG clearance was seen after phenobarbital administration. In microsomes prepared from phenobarbital-treated Tg-UGT1 animals, 13-fold higher CL(int) (Vmax/K(m)) value was observed as compared with the untreated transgenic mice. A trend toward induction of catalytic activity in vitro and in vivo was also observed following pregnenolone-16alpha-carbonitrile and WY-14643 treatment. This study demonstrates the successful application of Tg-UGT1 mice as a novel tool to study the impact of induction and regulation on metabolism of UGT1A4 substrates.
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- U A Argikar
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Zhou J, Tracy TS, Remmel RP. Glucuronidation of dihydrotestosterone and trans-androsterone by recombinant UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) 1A4: evidence for multiple UGT1A4 aglycone binding sites. Drug Metab Dispos 2009; 38:431-40. [PMID: 20007295 DOI: 10.1124/dmd.109.028712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) 1A4-catalyzed glucuronidation is an important drug elimination pathway. Although atypical kinetic profiles (nonhyperbolic, non-Michaelis-Menten) of UGT1A4-catalyzed glucuronidation have been reported occasionally, systematic kinetic studies to explore the existence of multiple aglycone binding sites in UGT1A4 have not been conducted. To this end, two positional isomers, dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and trans-androsterone (t-AND), were used as probe substrates, and their glucuronidation kinetics with HEK293-expressed UGT1A4 were evaluated both alone and in the presence of a UGT1A4 substrate [tamoxifen (TAM) or lamotrigine (LTG)]. Coincubation with TAM, a high-affinity UGT1A4 substrate, resulted in a concentration-dependent activation/inhibition effect on DHT and t-AND glucuronidation, whereas LTG, a low-affinity UGT1A4 substrate, noncompetitively inhibited both processes. The glucuronidation kinetics of TAM were then evaluated both alone and in the presence of different concentrations of DHT or t-AND. TAM displayed substrate inhibition kinetics, suggesting that TAM may have two binding sites in UGT1A4. However, the substrate inhibition kinetic profile of TAM became more hyperbolic as the DHT or t-AND concentration was increased. Various two-site kinetic models adequately explained the interactions between TAM and DHT or TAM and t-AND. In addition, the effect of TAM on LTG glucuronidation was evaluated. In contrast to the mixed effect of TAM on DHT and t-AND glucuronidation, TAM inhibited LTG glucuronidation. Our results suggest that multiple aglycone binding sites exist within UGT1A4, which may result in atypical kinetics (both homotropic and heterotropic) in a substrate-dependent fashion.
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- Jin Zhou
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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Chaudhry AS, Urban TJ, Lamba JK, Birnbaum AK, Remmel RP, Subramanian M, Strom S, You JH, Kasperaviciute D, Catarino CB, Radtke RA, Sisodiya SM, Goldstein DB, Schuetz EG. CYP2C9*1B promoter polymorphisms, in linkage with CYP2C19*2, affect phenytoin autoinduction of clearance and maintenance dose. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2009; 332:599-611. [PMID: 19855097 DOI: 10.1124/jpet.109.161026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The commonly prescribed antiepileptic drug phenytoin has a narrow therapeutic range and wide interindividual variability in clearance explained in part by CYP2C9 and CYP2C19 coding variants. After finding a paradoxically low urinary phenytoin metabolite (S)/(R) ratio in subjects receiving phenytoin maintenance therapy with a CYP2C9*1/*1 and CYP2C19*1/*2 genotype, we hypothesized that CYP2C9 regulatory polymorphisms (rPMs), G-3089A and -2663delTG, in linkage disequilibrium with CYP2C19*2 were responsible. These rPMs explained as much as 10% of the variation in phenytoin maintenance dose in epileptic patients, but were not correlated with other patients' warfarin dose requirements or with phenytoin metabolite ratio in human liver microsomes. We hypothesized the rPMs affected CYP2C9 induction by phenytoin, a pregnane X receptor (PXR), and constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) activator. Transfection studies showed that CYP2C9 reporters with wild-type versus variant alleles had similar basal activity but significantly greater phenytoin induction by cotransfected PXR, CAR, and Nrf2 and less Yin Yang 1 transcription factor repression. Phenytoin induction of CYP2C9 was greater in human hepatocytes with the CYP2C9 wild type versus variant haplotype. Therefore, CYP2C9 rPMs affect phenytoin-dependent induction of CYP2C9 and phenytoin metabolism in humans, with an effect size comparable with that for CYP2C9*2 and 2C9*3. These findings may also be relevant to the clinical use of other PXR, CAR, and Nrf2 activators.
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- Amarjit S Chaudhry
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
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Brophy CM, Luebke-Wheeler JL, Amiot BP, Remmel RP, Rinaldo P, Nyberg SL. Gene expression and functional analyses of primary rat hepatocytes on nanofiber matrices. Cells Tissues Organs 2009; 191:129-40. [PMID: 19494481 DOI: 10.1159/000223235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/24/2009] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Long term culture of primary hepatocytes is valuable for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. However, standard monolayer culture of primary hepatocytes on tissue culture plastic (TCP) - either uncoated or coated with a biological material such as collagen or laminin - is problematic. Thus, novel support matrices are under development to better maintain gene expression and differentiated function of primary hepatocytes in vitro. In this study, a fabricated nanofiber matrix was compared to control conditions of uncoated and laminin-coated TCP. Gene expression and biochemical analyses were performed to compare functional abilities of the hepatocytes in the different conditions. Hepatocytes cultured on nanofibers maintained higher cytochrome P450 1A activity (0.49 +/- 0.08 ng resorufin/ml/min) compared to hepatocytes on laminin (0.11 +/- 0.05 ng resorufin/ml/min). In addition, albumin production of hepatocytes on nanofibers was greater than twice the production of hepatocytes on laminin (day 14, 34.4 +/- 1.8 vs. 15.9 +/- 4.5 microg albumin/ml/day). Hepatocytes demonstrated the ability to generate urea from ammonia in all conditions; however, hepatocytes performed ureagenesis more effectively on nanofibers than on laminin (0.55 +/- 0.25 microM vs. 0.36 +/- 0.24 microM urea, day 14). Gene expression of hepatocytes cultured on nanofiber and laminin conditions were similar on a per cell basis determined by analysis using a custom microarray of 250 genes expressed in hepatocytes. Similar cell attachment data between conditions and similar numbers of cells expressing the hepatocyte marker hepatocyte nuclear factor 4alphaindicates that hepatocytes grown on nanofibers only marginally display improved hepatic functions compared to laminin control conditions.
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- Colleen M Brophy
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Physiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Brophy CM, Luebke-Wheeler JL, Amiot BP, Remmel RP, Rinaldo P, Nyberg SL, Nyberg SL. Rat hepatocyte spheroids formed by rocked technique maintain differentiated hepatocyte gene expression and function. Hepatology 2009; 49:578-86. [PMID: 19085959 PMCID: PMC2680349 DOI: 10.1002/hep.22674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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UNLABELLED The culture of primary hepatocytes as spheroids creates an efficient three-dimensional tissue construct for hepatic studies in vitro. Spheroids possess structural polarity and functional bile canaliculi with normal differentiated function. Thus, hepatocyte spheroids have been proposed as the cell source in a variety of diagnostic, discovery, and therapeutic applications, such as a bioartificial liver. Using a novel rocking technique to induce spheroid formation, kinetics of spheroid formation, cell-cell adhesion, gene expression, and biochemical activities of rat hepatocyte spheroids were tested over 14 days of culture. Evidence was provided that the formation of spheroids occurred faster and with fewer nonadherent hepatocytes in rocked suspension culture compared to a traditional rotational system. Hepatocyte spheroids in rocked culture showed stable expression of more than 80% of 242 liver-related genes including those of albumin synthesis, urea cycle, phase I and II metabolic enzymes, and clotting factors. Biochemical activity of rocked spheroid hepatocytes was superior to monolayer culture of hepatocytes on tissue culture plastic and collagen. CONCLUSION Spheroid formation by rocker technique was more rapid and more efficient than by rotational technique. Rocker-formed spheroids appear suitable for application in a bioartificial liver or as an in vitro liver tissue construct.
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- Colleen M. Brophy
- Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
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- Department Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN
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Argikar UA, Remmel RP. Effect of aging on glucuronidation of valproic acid in human liver microsomes and the role of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase UGT1A4, UGT1A8, and UGT1A10. Drug Metab Dispos 2008; 37:229-36. [PMID: 18838507 DOI: 10.1124/dmd.108.022426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Valproic acid (VPA) is a widely used anticonvulsant that is also approved for mood disorders, bipolar depression, and migraine. In vivo, valproate is metabolized oxidatively by cytochromes P450 and beta-oxidation, as well as conjugatively via glucuronidation. The acyl glucuronide conjugate (valproate-glucuronide or VPAG) is the major urinary metabolite (30-50% of the dose). It has been hypothesized that glucuronidation of antiepileptic drugs is spared over age, despite a known decrease in liver mass. The formation rates of VPAG in a bank of elderly (65 years onward) human liver microsomes (HLMs) were measured by liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry and compared with those in a younger (2-56 years) HLM bank. In vitro kinetic studies with recombinant UDP-glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs) were completed. A 5- to 8-fold variation for the formation of VPAG was observed within the microsomal bank obtained from elderly and younger donors. VPAG formation ranged from 6.0 to 53.4 nmol/min/mg protein at 1 mM substrate concentration (n=36). The average velocities at 0.25, 0.5, and 1 mM VPA were 7.0, 13.4, and 25.4 nmol/min/mg protein, respectively, in the elderly HLM bank. Rates of VPAG formation were not significantly different in the HLM bank obtained from younger subjects. Intrinsic clearances (V(max)/K(m)) for several cloned, expressed UGTs were determined. UGT1A4, UGT1A8, and UGT1A10 also were found to catalyze the formation of VPAG in vitro. This is the first reported activity of these UGTs toward VPA glucuronidation. UGT2B7 had the highest intrinsic clearance, whereas UGT1A1 demonstrated no activity. In conclusion, our investigation revealed no differences in VPAG formation in younger versus elderly HMLs and revealed three other UGTs that form VPAG in vitro.
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- Upendra A Argikar
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, 8-101 WDH, 308 Harvard St. SE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414, USA
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Gupte A, Subramanian M, Remmel RP, Aldrich CC. Synthesis of deuterium-labelled 5'-O-[N-(Salicyl)sulfamoyl]adenosine (Sal-AMS-d(4)) as an internal standard for quantitation of Sal-AMS. J Labelled Comp Radiopharm 2008; 51:118-122. [PMID: 19050743 DOI: 10.1002/jlcr.1490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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5'-O-[N-(Salicyl)sulfamoyl]adenosine (Sal-AMS, 1) is a potent inhibitor of the bifunctional enzyme salicyl-AMP ligase in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This inhibitor acts by disrupting the biosynthesis of the mycobactin siderophores that are essential for the process of iron acquisition. To aid with in vitro metabolism and in vivo pharmacokinetic studies of Sal-AMS, a stable deuterium-labelled Sal-AMS analog (Sal-AMS-d(4)) was synthesized. This deuterium-labelled analog was used as an internal standard to conduct in vitro plasma and microsomal stability studies. Sal-AMS was found to be stable for 24 h in human plasma and 1 h in human liver microsomes at 37 degrees C.
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- Amol Gupte
- Center for Drug Design, Academic Health Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Kumar A, Remmel RP, Beilman GJ, Mann HJ. EFFECT OF HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK ON PHARMACOKINETICS OF A DRUG PROBE COCKTAIL FOR CYTOCHROME P450 ISOZYMES IN A PORCINE MODEL. Chest 2007. [DOI: 10.1378/chest.132.4_meetingabstracts.556c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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Kumar A, Mann HJ, Remmel RP. Simultaneous analysis of cytochrome P450 probes—dextromethorphan, flurbiprofen and midazolam and their major metabolites by HPLC-mass-spectrometry/fluorescence after single-step extraction from plasma. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2007; 853:287-93. [PMID: 17452028 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2007.03.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2006] [Revised: 03/07/2007] [Accepted: 03/20/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Cytochrome P450 enzymes catalyze oxidative metabolism of most pharmaceutical compounds. Consequently dextromethorphan, flurbiprofen, midazolam and other compounds are commonly used as probe substrates to evaluate cytochrome P450 function in humans. A "cocktail" approach employing simultaneous administration of two or more of the probe substrates has been used by various investigators in recent years. An analytical strategy to simultaneously extract and analyze dextromethorphan, flurbiprofen and midazolam and their major metabolites (dextrorphan, 4'-hydroxy-flurbiprofen and 1'-hydroxy-midazolam) by HPLC-MS/fluorescence was developed and is described here. The three probe substrates and their major metabolites were extracted simultaneously by means of a solid-phase (Bond Elut Certify cartridges) extraction procedure from 200 microl of pig plasma. The extraction efficiency was more than 79.5% for each of the six analytes. The extracted compounds were chromatographically separated on a Luna C8(II) column (50 mm Lx3 mm ID) in a single run of 20 min and analyzed by either fluorescence (flurbiprofen and 4'-hydroxy-flurbiprofen) or selective ion monitoring (dextromethorphan, dextrorphan, midazolam and 1'-hydroxy-midazolam) with positive electrospray ionization. The limit of quantification was 2.5 ng/ml for midazolam and 5 ng/ml for the other five analytes. The assay was precise and accurate (error: -9.1 to 12.1) with total CVs of 13.9% or better for each of the 6 analytes. This method was used to analyze concentrations of the three probes and their metabolites in plasma after intravenous administration to a healthy pig.
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- Atul Kumar
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, 308 Harvard St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414, United States
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Clemens PL, Cloyd JC, Kriel RL, Remmel RP. Relative Bioavailability, Metabolism??and Tolerability of??Rectally Administered Oxcarbazepine Suspension. Clin Drug Investig 2007; 27:243-50. [PMID: 17358096 DOI: 10.2165/00044011-200727040-00003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Maintenance of effective drug concentrations is essential for adequate treatment of epilepsy. Some antiepileptic drugs can be successfully administered rectally when the oral route of administration is temporarily unavailable. Oxcarbazepine is a newer antiepileptic drug that is rapidly converted to a monohydroxy derivative, the active compound. This study aimed to characterise the bioavailability, metabolism and tolerability of rectally administered oxcarbazepine suspension using a randomised, crossover design in ten healthy volunteers. METHODS Two subjects received 300 mg doses of oxcarbazepine suspension via rectal and oral routes and eight received 450 mg doses. A washout period of at least 2 weeks elapsed between doses. The rectal dose was diluted 1:1 with water. Blood samples and urine were collected for 72 hours post-dose. Adverse effects were assessed at each blood collection time-point using a self-administered questionnaire. Plasma was assayed for oxcarbazepine and monohydroxy derivative; urine was assayed for monohydroxy derivative and monohydroxy derivative-glucuronide. Maximum plasma concentration (C(max)) and time to reach C(max) (t(max)) were obtained directly from the plasma concentration-time curves. The areas under the concentration-time curve (AUCs) were determined via non-compartmental analysis. Relative bioavailability was calculated and the C(max) and AUCs were compared using Wilcoxon signed-rank tests. RESULTS Mean relative bioavailability calculated from plasma AUCs was 8.3% (SD 5.5%) for the monohydroxy derivative and 10.8% (SD 7.3%) for oxcarbazepine. Oxcarbazepine and monohydroxy derivative C(max) and AUC values were significantly lower following rectal administration (p < 0.01). The total amount of monohydroxy derivative excreted in the urine following rectal administration was 10 +/- 5% of the amount excreted following oral administration. Oral absorption was consistent with previous studies. The most common adverse effects were headache and fatigue with no discernible differences between routes. CONCLUSIONS Monohydroxy derivative bioavailability following rectal administration of oxcarbazepine suspension is significantly lower than following oral administration, most likely because of poor oxcarbazepine water solubility. It is unlikely that adequate monohydroxy derivative concentrations can be achieved with rectal administration of diluted oxcarbazepine suspension.
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- Pamela L Clemens
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Kumar A, Mann HJ, Remmel RP. Determination of constituents of Telazol--tiletamine and zolazepam by a gas chromatography/mass spectrometry-based method. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2006; 842:131-5. [PMID: 16769259 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2006.05.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2006] [Revised: 05/02/2006] [Accepted: 05/09/2006] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Tiletamine and zolazepam injection (Telazol) is used in veterinary surgical practice to induce short-term anesthesia and also to immobilize wild animals. The present work describes a sensitive method to measure tiletamine and zolazepam concentrations in plasma by means of GC/EI-MS on a 5% phenyl/95% methylpolysiloxane column. A simple liquid extraction procedure with ethyl acetate was used to isolate the two compounds and the same were separated and analyzed by GC/MS without derivatization. A formal validation of the assay demonstrated good accuracy and precision for both tiletamine (98-100.8%; C.V.total < 6.7%) and zolazepam (98.3-103.4; C.V.total < 13.2%). With 500 microl of plasma, the limits of quantification for both tiletamine and zolazepam were found to be 10 ng/ml. Both compounds were stable after three freeze-thaw cycles. The assay was used to analyze plasma samples collected from a pig after intramuscular administration of 10 mg/kg of Telazol. The plasma concentration-time profile of tiletamine and zolazepam from this representative pig is also provided.
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- Atul Kumar
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, 308 Harvard St., SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414, USA
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Remmel RP, Elmer GW. Separation of Clonazepam and Five Metabolites by Reverse Phase HPLC and Quantitation from Rat Liver Microsomal Incubations. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1080/01483918308076070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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- Rory P. Remmel
- a Department of Medicinal Chemistry , BG-20 School of Pharmacy University of Washington Seattle , Washington , 98195
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- a Department of Medicinal Chemistry , BG-20 School of Pharmacy University of Washington Seattle , Washington , 98195
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Senekeo-Effenberger K, Chen S, Brace-Sinnokrak E, Bonzo JA, Yueh MF, Argikar U, Kaeding J, Trottier J, Remmel RP, Ritter JK, Barbier O, Tukey RH. Expression of the human UGT1 locus in transgenic mice by 4-chloro-6-(2,3-xylidino)-2-pyrimidinylthioacetic acid (WY-14643) and implications on drug metabolism through peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha activation. Drug Metab Dispos 2006; 35:419-27. [PMID: 17151188 DOI: 10.1124/dmd.106.013243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) 1A genes in humans have been shown to be differentially regulated in a tissue-specific fashion. Transgenic mice carrying the human UGT1 locus (Tg-UGT1) were recently created, demonstrating that expression of the nine UGT1A genes closely resembles the patterns of expression observed in human tissues. In the present study, UGT1A1, UGT1A3, UGT1A4, and UGT1A6 have been identified as targets of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) alpha in human hepatocytes and Tg-UGT1 mice. Oral administration of the PPARalpha agonist 4-chloro-6-(2,3-xylidino)-2-pyrimidinylthioacetic acid (pirinixic acid, WY-14643) to Tg-UGT1 mice led to induction of these proteins in either the liver, gastrointestinal tract, or kidney. The levels of induced UGT1A3 gene transcripts in liver and UGT1A4 protein in small intestine correlated with induced lamotrigine glucuronidation activity in these tissues. With UGT1A3 previously identified as the major human enzyme involved in human C24-glucuronidation of lithocholic acid (LCA), the dramatic induction of liver UGT1A3 RNA in Tg-UGT1 mice was consistent with the formation of LCA-24G in plasma. Furthermore, PPAR-responsive elements (PPREs) were identified flanking the UGT1A1, UGT1A3, and UGT1A6 genes by a combination of site-directed mutagenesis, specific binding to PPARalpha and retinoic acid X receptor alpha, and functional response of the concatenated PPREs in HepG2 cells overexpressing PPARalpha. In conclusion, these results suggest that oral fibrate treatment in humans will induce the UGT1A family of proteins in the gastrointestinal tract and liver, influencing bile acid glucuronidation and first-pass metabolism of other drugs that are taken concurrently with hypolipidemic therapy.
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- Kathy Senekeo-Effenberger
- Leichtag Biomedical Research Building, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0722, USA
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Argikar UA, Cloyd JC, Birnbaum AK, Leppik IE, Conway J, Kshirsagar S, Oetting WS, Klein EC, Remmel RP. Paradoxical urinary phenytoin metabolite (S)/(R) ratios in CYP2C19*1/*2 patients. Epilepsy Res 2006; 71:54-63. [PMID: 16815679 DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2006.05.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2006] [Accepted: 05/22/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Phenytoin (PHT) is primarily metabolized to 5-(4'-hydroxyphenyl)-5-phenylhydantoin (p-HPPH), accounting for 67-88% of an administered dose in humans. p-HPPH is formed by the cytochrome (CYP) 450 enzymes CYP2C9 and CYP2C19, then glucuronidated and excreted into the urine. CYP2C9 catalyses the prochiral formation of (R) and (S)-p-HPPH, and is approximately 40 times more stereoselective towards the formation of the (S) isomer whereas CYP2C19 is not stereoselective. Because of differential stereoselectivity, polymorphisms in the genes can alter the (S)/(R)-p-HPPH ratios. Genotyping for CYP2C9 and CYP2C19 was accomplished by a Taqman based assay. Twelve and twenty-four hour urine samples were collected from 45 epilepsy patients taking PHT under steady-state conditions and (S)/(R) ratios of p-HPPH were determined by chiral HPLC separation. The mean urinary (S)/(R) ratio in the 12-24h urine collection in subjects homozygous for CYP2C9*1/*1, CYP2C19*1/*1 was 24.2+/-3.1(n=21), whereas ratios in CYP2C9*1/*2 and CYP2C9*1/*3 subjects, were 11.1+/-3.3(n=7) and 2.7+/-0.6(n=2), respectively. One CYP2C9*2/*3 patient had a ratio of 2.1. Unexpectedly, CYP2C9*1/*1, CYP2C19*1/*2 subjects had a mean (S)/(R) ratio as low as 12.9+/-1.7(n=12). Our results are generally consistent with single dose PHT studies. However, the (S)/(R)-p-HPPH ratios for the CYP2C9*1/*1, CYP2C19*1/*2 subjects, expected to be in the range of 30-40, were only 12.9, suggesting some undetected linkage disequilibrium between CYP2C9 and CYP2C19 genes that could affect PHT elimination. Furthermore, our study suggests that measurement of urine ratios cannot be used as a marker for genotype determination.
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- Upendra A Argikar
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55414, USA
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OBJECTIVES This study was carried out to test the hypothesis that the hepatic safety profile of prolonged high-dose oral naltrexone (150 mg/d) is acceptable if over-the-counter analgesic use is restricted. METHODS Data from 41 consecutive outpatients with impulse-control disorder receiving naltrexone therapy were analyzed. RESULTS The mean treatment duration was 328 days and the mean naltrexone dose was 142 mg/d. Pretherapy/posttherapy mean aspartate transaminase and alanine transaminase levels in the naltrexone-alone group were 21.79/22.54 and 21.74/21.49 U, respectively (all within reference range). CONCLUSIONS Although limited in scope, these findings support the hypothesis that long-term use of high-dose oral naltrexone is safe in otherwise healthy patients with impulse-control disorders who restrict their intake of acetaminophen, aspirin, or nonaspirin nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID). However, confirming studies are needed.
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- Suck Won Kim
- Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55454-1495, USA.
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Kirstein MN, Hassan I, Guire DE, Weller DR, Dagit JW, Fisher JE, Remmel RP. High-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of gemcitabine and 2′,2′-difluorodeoxyuridine in plasma and tissue culture media. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2006; 835:136-42. [PMID: 16584929 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2006.03.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2005] [Revised: 03/03/2006] [Accepted: 03/09/2006] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Gemcitabine, a pyrimidine antimetabolite undergoes metabolism by plasma and liver cytidine deaminase to form the inactive compound, 2',2'-difluorodeoxyuridine (dFdU). The parent molecule is activated by intracellular phosphorylation. To evaluate the population pharmacokinetics in patients receiving gemcitabine, and to test the relation between gemcitabine infusion rate and antitumor activity in an in vitro bioreactor cell culture system, we developed and validated a sensitive and specific HPLC-UV method for gemcitabine and dFdU. Deproteinized plasma is vortexed, centrifuged, and 25 microL of the acidified extract sample is injected onto a Waters Spherisorb 4.6 mm x 250 mm, 5 microm C18 column at 40 degrees C. The mobile phase (flow rate, 1.0 mL/min) consists of 10:90 (v/v) acetonitrile-aqueous buffer (50 mM sodium phosphate and 3.0 mM octyl sulfonic acid, pH 2.9). Gemcitabine, dFdU, and the internal standard, 2'-deoxycytidine (2'dC) were detected with UV wavelength set at 267 nm. The standard curves for gemcitabine in both matrices ranged from 2 to 200 microM, and for dFdU in plasma, from 2 to 100 microM. Within-run and between-run component precision (CV%) was <or=6.1 and 5.7%, respectively for both human plasma and tissue culture media, and for dFdU, 2.3 and 2.7%. Total accuracy ranged from 98.7 to 106.2% for human plasma and from 96.9 to 99.2% for tissue culture media, respectively, and for dFdU, from 96.5 to 99.6%. Tetrahydrouridine (THU), an inhibitor of cytidine deaminase is used to prevent breakdown in human plasma. With one method we can measure gemcitabine in both plasma and tissue culture media. Utility is demonstrated by evaluation of the disposition of gemcitabine in an in vitro bioreactor cell culture system.
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- Mark N Kirstein
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, 308 Harvard St SE, Minneapolis, 55455, USA.
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Otteneder MB, Knutson CG, Daniels JS, Hashim M, Crews BC, Remmel RP, Wang H, Rizzo C, Marnett LJ. In vivo oxidative metabolism of a major peroxidation-derived DNA adduct, M1dG. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:6665-9. [PMID: 16614064 PMCID: PMC1458938 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0602017103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 236] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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3-(2-Deoxy-beta-D-erythro-pentofuranosyl)pyrimido[1,2-alpha]purin-10(3H)-one (M1dG) is a DNA adduct arising from the reaction of 2-deoxyguanosine with the lipid peroxidation product, malondialdehyde, or the DNA peroxidation product, base propenal. M1dG is mutagenic in bacteria and mammalian cells and is present in the genomic DNA of healthy human beings. It is also detectable, albeit at low levels, in the urine of healthy individuals, which may make it a useful biomarker of DNA damage linked to oxidative stress. We investigated the possibility that the low urinary levels of M1dG reflect metabolic conversion to derivatives. M1dG was rapidly removed from plasma (t(1/2) = 10 min) after i.v. administration to rats. A single urinary metabolite was detected that was identified as 6-oxo-M1dG by MS, NMR spectroscopy, and independent chemical synthesis. 6-Oxo-M1dG was generated in vitro by incubation of M1dG with rat liver cytosols, and studies with inhibitors suggested that xanthine oxidase and aldehyde oxidase are involved in the oxidative metabolism. M1dG also was metabolized by three separate human liver cytosol preparations, indicating 6-oxo-M1dG is a likely metabolite in humans. This represents a report of the oxidative metabolism of an endogenous DNA adduct and raises the possibility that other endogenous DNA adducts are metabolized by oxidative pathways. 6-Oxo-M1dG may be a useful biomarker of endogenous DNA damage associated with inflammation, oxidative stress, and certain types of cancer chemotherapy.
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- Michael B. Otteneder
- A. B. Hancock, Jr., Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research, Departments of *Biochemistry
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- A. B. Hancock, Jr., Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research, Departments of *Biochemistry
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- A. B. Hancock, Jr., Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research, Departments of *Biochemistry
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- A. B. Hancock, Jr., Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research, Departments of *Biochemistry
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- A. B. Hancock, Jr., Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research, Departments of *Biochemistry
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- A. B. Hancock, Jr., Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research, Departments of *Biochemistry
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- A. B. Hancock, Jr., Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research, Departments of *Biochemistry
- Chemistry, and
- Pharmacology, Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology, Center in Molecular Toxicology, Vanderbilt–Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232-0146
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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The uridine diphosphoglucuronosyltransferases (UGTs) belong to a superfamily of enzymes that catalyse the glucuronidation of numerous endobiotics and xenobiotics. Several human hepatic and extrahepatic UGT isozymes have been characterized with respect to their substrate specificity, tissue expression and gene structure. Genetic polymorphisms have been identified for almost all the UGT family members. A wide variety of anticancer drugs, dietary chemopreventives and carcinogens are known to be conjugated by members of both UGT1A and UGT2B subfamilies. This review examines in detail each UGT isozyme known to be associated with cancer and carcinogenesis. The cancer-related substrates for several UGTs are summarized, and the functionally relevant genetic polymorphisms of UGTs are reviewed. A number of genotype-phenotype association studies have been carried out to characterize the role of UGT pharmacogenetics in several types of cancer, and these examples are discussed here. In summary, this review focuses on the role of the human UGT genetic polymorphisms in carcinogenesis, chemoprevention and cancer risk.
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- S Nagar
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Temple University School of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA.
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Kirstein MN, Brundage RC, Elmquist WF, Remmel RP, Marker PH, Guire DE, Yee D. Characterization of an in vitro cell culture bioreactor system to evaluate anti-neoplastic drug regimens. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2006; 96:217-25. [PMID: 16502018 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-005-9004-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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A dynamic 3-dimensional tissue culture system has been developed that will allow for control of gemcitabine exposure to mimic concentration-time profiles measured from biologic samples. Gemcitabine was infused into a central reservoir. Media is mixed and delivered through hollow fiber capillaries, where it diffuses into the extracapillary space containing anchorage-dependent MDA-231 cells. To test for control of gemcitabine concentration-time profiles, drug was first infused through bioreactors without cells, and gemcitabine concentrations were measured with HPLC. Concentrations could be controlled to simulate 30-min and 2.5 h infusions, and were similar in both the lumen and extracapillary space. MDA-231 cells were then seeded into control (n = 4) and gemcitabine treatment (n = 4) groups, and maintained in culture for 2 weeks. Gemcitabine (5.3 mg) was infused over 30 min to the treatment group, and blank media to the control group. Accuracy of measured gemcitabine maximum concentration (Cmax) was 83.4%, and area under the curve (AUC), 106.2%, relative to pre-experimental theoretical values. With cells present, gemcitabine AUC in the extracapillary space was 32% of the value in the lumen. For the control group, 21.2 million cells (94.3% viable) were recovered, and for the gemcitabine-treated group, 16.8 million cells (87.1 % viable). Flow cytometry showed that 13.3 % of cells in the control group were in S-phase and 34.3 % in the gemcitabine-treated group were in S-phase (p = 0.003). In conclusion, gemcitabine concentration-time profiles could be accurately controlled through dosage, infusion rate, and pump flow rate, and cells could be recovered afterward to evaluate drug treatment.
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- Mark N Kirstein
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
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Chen S, Beaton D, Nguyen N, Senekeo-Effenberger K, Brace-Sinnokrak E, Argikar U, Remmel RP, Trottier J, Barbier O, Ritter JK, Tukey RH. Tissue-specific, Inducible, and Hormonal Control of the Human UDP-Glucuronosyltransferase-1 (UGT1) Locus. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:37547-57. [PMID: 16155002 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m506683200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The human UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1 (UGT1) locus spans nearly 200 kb on chromosome 2 and encodes nine UGT1A proteins that play a prominent role in drug and xenobiotic metabolism. Transgenic UGT1 (Tg-UGT1) mice have been created, and it has been demonstrated that tissue-specific and xenobiotic receptor control of the UGT1A genes is influenced through circulating humoral factors. In Tg-UGT1 mice, the UGT1A proteins are differentially expressed in the liver and gastrointestinal tract. Gene expression profiles confirmed that all of the UGT1A genes can be targeted for regulation by the pregnane X receptor activator pregnenolone-16alpha-carbonitrile (PCN) or the Ah receptor ligand 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). In addition, the selective induction of glucuronidation activity toward lamotrigine, ethinyl estradiol, chenodeoxycholic acid, and lithocholic acid by either PCN or TCDD in small intestine from Tg-UGT1 mice corresponded to expression of the locus in this tissue. Induction of UGT1A1 by PCN and TCDD is believed to be highly dependent upon glucocorticoids, because submicromolar concentrations of dexamethasone actively promote PCN and TCDD induction of UGT1A1 in Tg-UGT1 primary hepatocytes. The role of hormonal control of the UGT1 locus was further verified in pregnant and nursing Tg-UGT1 mice. In maternal 14-day post-conception Tg-UGT1mice, liver UGT1A1, UGT1A4, and UGT1A6 were induced, with the levels returning to near normal by birth. However, maternal liver UGT1A4 and UGT1A6 were dramatically elevated and maintained after birth, indicating that these proteins may play a critical role in maternal metabolism during lactation. With expression of the UGT1 locus confirmed in a variety of mouse tissues, these results suggested that the Tg-UGT1 mice will be a useful model to examine the regulatory and functional properties of human glucuronidation.
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- Shujuan Chen
- Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology, Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0722, USA
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