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Chapter 5: Pharmacogenomics and Drug Transporters Flashcards

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Define pharmacogenomics and its importance in personalized medicine

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The study of how an individual’s genetic makeup affects their response to drugs.

It is important for personalized medicine because it allows for predicting drug efficacy and toxicity based on a patient’s genetic profile.

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What does idiosyncratic mean?

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Unusual drug response

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Name and describe three drugs that may require dosage adjustments in specific genetic populations, the enzyme or mutation responsible, and the type of testing done to determine susceptible populations.

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  1. Herceptin which blocks the Her2 receptor on cancer cells
    -Her2
    -Required Biopsy to see if cancer is HER2-positive (over expressing Her2)
  2. Warfarin which is metabolized by CYP2C9
    -CYP2C9
    -Recommended genetic testing for dose adjustments based on CYP2C9 genetic variants
  3. Codeine - Dosage adjustments based on CYP2D6 genetic variants, which affect conversion of codeine to the active metabolite morphine.
    required prior to 6MP administration
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How many gene bases do we have?

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3.2 billion base PAIRS

6.4 billion bases with both strands

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_____% of DNA codes for protein

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1-2%

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_____ % of us have the same DNA

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99.9

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How many genes do we have?

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30,000

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How many Single base pairs variants (Single nucleotide polymorphism or SNP) do we have?

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More than 1 million

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What is an locus/loci?

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Exact location on a chromosome

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What are alleles?

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An alternate form of a gene at the same loci

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What is a silent mutation?

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The different allele doesnt change the amino acid and is not even detectable unless theres a DNA scan.

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What does PM stand for?

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Poor Metabolizer

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Prodrug + poor metabolizer =

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Drug cannot be activated that well. Wont reach its full efficacy
Accumulation of prodrug because not being metabolized (Not being activated nor excreted)

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Active drug + poor metabolizer =

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High efficacy
Stays in the system longer
Not being metabolized fast therefore not being inactivated fast and not excreting fast (stays in system longer)
May need lower dose and/or longer intervals so wont have toxic levels

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Prodrug + ultarapid metabolizer =

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Works fast, high efficacy

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Active drug + ultrarapid. metabolizer =

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Inactivated quick
Cant even reach its full efficacy because its metabolized and inactivated/excreted so quick

Needs greater dose or slow release

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CYP2D6

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Absent in 7% of Caucasians

Hyperactive in 30% of East Africans

Catalyzes metabolism: Betablockers, Class 1C antiarrhythimcs, Analgesics, Various antidepressants/physchotics

5HT3 inhibitor

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18
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What activates Codeine?

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CYP2D6

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What inactivates Codeine

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CYP3A4 to Norcodeine

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What is warfarin metabolized by?

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CYP2C9

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Describe Warfarin

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Metabolized by CYP2C9
Racemic mixture of R- and S- Warfarin
S- warfarin 7-10x more potent

22
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What happens if you carry a variant allele of CYP2C9 while taking warfarin?

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Reduced metabolism of warfarin leading to higher concentrations of warfarin therefore higher risk of bleeding.

23
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What causes breast cancer?

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Overproducing Estrogen and Progesterone receptors

24
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What type of treatment is included in breast cancer?

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Estrogen deprivation

25
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HER2+ cancers respond to what drug?

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Herceptin

26
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What is required before starting Herceptin?

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Biopsy with genetic testing to determine is the tumor is overproducing th HER2 gene

27
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Describe the role of drug transporters in the cell

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Primary function is to transport endogenous substances

Drug transporters play a role in moving or preventing drugs and other substances across cell membranes, facilitating both influx and efflux.

28
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Active Transport Requires____

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ATP

29
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Facilitated diffusion requires a ______

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Concentration Gradient

30
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What are the special carriers?

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Active transport and facilitated diffusion

31
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What are 4 specialized barriers?

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Blood-brain
Blood-placenta
Blood-testes
Blood-ovarian

32
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What does xenobiotic mean?

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Something thats been introduced into the body

33
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Define the role of drug efflux transporters

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Drug efflux transporters, such as the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters, actively pump drugs out of cells, reducing intracellular drug concentrations.

This can cause drug resistance.

34
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70% of genes are _______

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Transporters

35
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What are 3 types of passive transporters?

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Coupled
Exchanger
Passive

36
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What is a coupled transporter?

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It takes 2 things simultaneously through a “sim porter” or coupled transporter

Ex) SGLT

37
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Passive transport _____ require ATP

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does not

38
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What is an Exchanger transporter?

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1 thing goes out and another goes in. Important in the heart.

Ex) NCX

39
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What is the most important active transporter?

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Na/K ATPase

40
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List the most important ABC transporters and differences in their drug affinity

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***ABCB1 (broadest substrate specificity including antineoplastics, HIV protease inhibitors antibiotics, antidepressants, antiepileptics, and opioids). They also have a wide distribution in the body (GI, kidney, liver, testes) and are critical to the maintenance of the blood-brain barrier (BBB)

  • Remember quinidine, cyclosporine A, and Ritonavir are competitive inhibitors to ABCB1
  • Digoxin is transported by ABCB1 and, if inhibited, ABCB1 won’t remove as much resulting in toxic plasma levels.
  • Loperamide typically has no CNS effects but if ABCB1 is inhibited, systemic absorption can occur resulting in CNS effects like respiratory suppression***
  • ABCC - Largest class; ubiquitous; antineoplastics drug
  • ABCG2 is known as the breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP) (antineoplastics, toxins, food-born carcinogens)
  • Also, an efflux transporter of folate
41
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ABC transporter require_____

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ATP

ATP binding cassette transporters

42
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Describe an ABC transporter?

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Transmembrane spanning domains and NBD (Nucleotide binding domains) intracellularlly.

The ATP binds at The C-terminus NBD and then the drug can be pumped out or in to the cell (this depends on the location and orientation of the receptor)

43
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What separates the gut from the blood?

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The basal membrane (closest to blood) and the apical surface (closest to gut)

44
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Analyze the anatomic differences between drug transporters in different organs and their overall effects

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Drug transporters are differentially expressed in organs like the intestine, liver, kidney, and blood-brain barrier. This affects drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination

45
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List the components of the intact blood-brain barrier

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-The intact blood-brain barrier consists of the vascular endothelium with tight junctions, astrocytes, and podocytes; which together restrict the entry of most drugs into the brain. It has many efflux transporters so even when a drug is allowed in, it may be immediately pumped back out before its effects are seen

-Tight junctions and adherens junction complexes

46
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Where does the ABCB1 mostly sit?

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On the Apical surface

47
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Why cant some drugs be taken orally?

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Some drugs if taken orally will just get pumped back out by an efflux transporter

48
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Where are drugs entered and filtered into the kidney?

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The Glomerulus

49
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Where are most of the transporters on the BBB?

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The vascular epithelium

50
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Delineate the pathway of Tylenol in the gut before and after biotransformation

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51
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Describe the transporters for the Blood-CSF barrier

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On the Pia matter and ependymal cells

Less efflux

Not effective for antineoplastics

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