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Drug Metabolism

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Chemical alteration of xenobiotics in the body. Converts lipophilic chemicals into hydrophilic chemicals that are readily excreted in urine or bile.

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Xenobiotic

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Any compound normally foreign to living systems

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Issues of drug metabolism (4)

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  1. Genetics
  2. metabolism-dependent toxicity
  3. Drug-drug interactions
  4. Pathophysiological conditions
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When does acetaminophen become toxic?

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When the dose overwhelms the glucuronidation and sulfation pathways and forms NAPQI via the cytochrome P450 path (mainly CYP2E1 and CYP3A4)

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How can NAPQI be detoxified?

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glutathione conjugation

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What does MPTP do to the body?

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Metabolism dependent.

It crosses the BBB and is metabolized by MAO to MPDP+ that then auto-oxidizes to MPP+. This concentrates in DA neurons where it impairs mitochondrial respiration.

Creates a Parkinson’s Disease-like condition

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What does grapefruit juice inhibit?

Due to what chemical?

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CYP3A4

Due to furanocoumarins

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How is terfenadine cardiotoxic?

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drug-drug interaction involving CYP3A4. CYP3A4 converts the prodrug terfenadine to fexofenadine in the intestine and liver. A CYP3A4 inhibitor, ketoconazole or erythromycin, causes terfenadine to accumulate to cardiotoxic levels

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How can metabolism be affected by pathophysiological conditions

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Hepatic metabolism may be compromised in liver disease

Cardiac disease can reduce blood flow to liver, reducing metabolism of flow-limited drugs

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Four categories of biotransformation reactions

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  1. Oxidation - P1
  2. Reduction - P1
  3. Hydrolysis - P1
  4. Conjugation - P2
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Two major categories of biotransformation reactions

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Phase I: oxidation, reduction or hydrolysis reactions

  • Convert parent compound to more polar metabolite
  • May make the compound more readily excreted
  • May reveal a functional group that can serve as a site for additional metabolism

Phase II: conjugation of a small, endogenous substrate molecule with functional groups already present on drug or added/revealed by phase I metabolism

Important Point: either one of the above phases may occur first

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How is procaine metabolized?

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Hydrolysis of the ester linkage, which exposes a carboxylic acid group

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Phase III metabolism

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Describes the transporter proteins that pump xenobiotics or conjugates out of cells.

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How is isoniazid metabolized? What product is hepatotoxic?

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Undergoes phase II first: conjugated by acetylation (II) then the acetylated metabolite is then hydrolyzed (I) to produce isonicotinic acid and acetylhydrazine.

acetylhydrazine is hepatotoxic

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What enzymes catalyze >50% of orally effective drugs in current use?

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CYP2D6 and CYP3A4

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What reactions are catalyzed by enzymes that participate in intermediary metabolism?

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Cinnamic acid to benzene by mitochondrial fatty acid beta-oxidation enzymes

anti-HIV drug zidovudine to a triphosphate nucleoside by enzymes in the salvage pathway

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Xenobiotic sensing receptors

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Aryl hydrocarbon (Ah) receptor
Pregnane X receptor (PXR)
Constitutive androstane receptor (CAR)

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Aryl hydrocarbon (Ah) receptor ligands:

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prototype ligands are aromatic hydrocarbons and polychlorinated hydrocarbons

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Regnane X receptor (PXR) ligands:

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Ligands include a large number of drugs and other xenobiotics (ex rifampicin and hyperforin)

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Constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) activated by:

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Activiated by phenobarbital and many other drugs and xenobiotics

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How is codine converted to morphine?

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Phase I reaction (O-demethylation) catalyzed by CYP2D6)

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Where is the highest level of CYPs found?

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endoplasmic reticulum (microsomes) of liver, but are also present in virtually all cells

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Cytochrome P450 is involved in what type of metabolism?

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Phase I oxidation

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of Human CYPs

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18 families
708 gene families

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Overall P450 rxn
Drug + NADPH + O2 -->Oxidized Drug + NADP+ + H2O Incorporates an atom of oxygen into the substrate
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CYP1
aromatic hydrocarbons
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CYP2
phenobarbital, "phenobarbital-like" compounds
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CYP3
Steroids, phenobarbital, "phenobarbital-like" compounds
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CYP4
Peroxisome proliferators
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How close are CYPs in the same family?
CYPs in the same family have at least 40% amino acid similarity
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Cytochrome P450 catalytic cycle
o Drug adds first to cytochrome P450 (Fe3+) o Addition of electron from NADPH (Fe2+) o Addition of O2 (Fe2+−O) o Addition of another electron from NADPH (Fe2+−O2(-)) o Addition of 2 protons (H+) and release of water (Fe3+−O) o Transfer of O to drug and release of hydoxylated drug (d-OH) --> regeneration of P450 (Fe3+)
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Componenets required for the P450 system
o NADPH o NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase (flavoprotein) o Cytochrome P450 o Lipid environment
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Types of oxidative reactions
Hydroxylation of an aliphatic or aromatic carbon epoxidation of a double bond heteroatom (O,S, and N) dealkylation heteroatom (S,N, I) oxygenation and N-hydroxylation oxidative group transfer cleavage of esters dehydrogenation
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Example of Hydroxylation of an aliphatic carbon
tolbutamide to hydroxytolbutamide (via CYP2C9)
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Example of Hydroxylation of an aromatic carbon
(S)-Mephenytoin to 4'-Hydroxy-(S)-Mephenytoin (via CYP2C19)
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Example of an expoxidation
Carbamazepine (anticonvulsant) to carbamazepine-10,11-epoxide (stable) and Carbamazepine to carbamazepine-2,3-epoxide (unstable arene oxide)
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Example of heteroatom oxygenation
S: omeprazole --> N: NNK --> NNK N-oxide
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Example of heteroatom dealkylation
Codeine to morphine via (CYP2D6): an example of O-dealkylation
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Other oxidatative enzymes (10)
``` flavin monooxygenase alcohol dehydrogenase aldehyde dehydrogenase aldehyde oxidase xanthine oxidoreductase monoamine oxidases diamine oxidases polyamine oxidase semicarbazide-sense. amine oxidase peroxidase ```
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Reduction: 3 types
Azo/nitro Carbonyl Quinone
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Azo and nitro reduction | catalyzed by:
Catalyzed by intestinal microflora | sometimes by P450
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Example of azo reaction
prontosil to 1,2,4-triaminobenzene and sulfanilamide (first sulfa drug)
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Carbonyl reduction: catalyzed by what?
Reduction of aldehydes to primary alcohols and ketones to secondary alcohols catalyzed by NAD(P)H-dependent reductase
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Two superfamilies of NAD(P)H-dependent reductase
1. Aldo-ketoreductase | 2. Short-chain dehydrogenases
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Quinones can be reduced to hydroquinones by:
Quinones can be reduced to hydroquinones by NAD(P)H-quinone oxidoreductase-1 (NQO1,DT-diaphorase) and NQO2
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What does hydrolysis cleave?
esters, amides, thioesters, phosphoric acid esters, acid anhydrides, and lactones
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What enzymes hydrolyze xenobiotics?
Carboxylesterases (CE) and Epoxide hydrolases (main ones) Cholinesterases (AChE, butyrylcholinesterase) Paraoxonases (lactonases) Alkaline phosphase Peptidase
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What do CE1 and CE2 hydrolyze?
xenobiotic esters and amides ex: procaine by CE2
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What are the 2 (of 5 total) epoxide hydrolases that function in xenobiotic metabolism?
Microsomal epoxide hydrolase (mEH) Soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH)
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How do epoxide hydrolases work? | what are the products?
catalyze the trans-addition of water to alkene epoxides and arene oxides Products are trans-1,2-dihydrodiols
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What type of cell expresses mEH and sEH?
Generally, the same type of cell that expresses cytochromes P450
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How can EH play a role in bioactivation?
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon "bay-regions" diolepoxides Bay region epoxides are resistant to hydrolyation by EH, resulting from steric hindrance from the nearby dihydrodiol group
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Conjugation reaction
xenobiotic (or endogenous substrate) is coupled with an endogenous molecule
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How do the conjugated metabolites compare with substrate?
More polar pharmcologiaclly inactive more readily excreted (Not always the case)
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Major conjugation reactions
``` Glucuronidation* Sulfation (sulfonation)* Glutathione conjugation* Acetylation* (GGAS) Methylation Amino acid conjugation ```
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Glucuronidation mechanism
transfer of glucuronic acid from the co-factor UDP-glucuronic acid to a nucleophilic heteroatom on a substrate
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Glucuronidation substrates
aliphatic alcohols, phenols, carboxylic acids, amines, sulfhydryl groups
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Glucuronidation is catalyzed by:
Uridine 5'-diphosphate (UDP)-glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs)
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How many UGTs are encoded by the UGT1 locus? UGT2? What are UGTs localized to?
UGT1: 9 (have different exon 1s) UGT2: 10 localized to microsomes
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How is morphine converted into an active metabolite?
UGT2B7 adds glucuronic acid to the 6-position of morphine
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Sulfation (sulfonation) mechanism
transfer a sulfonate group from the co-factor 3-phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphosulfate (PAPS) to an available group on a substrate
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Substrate of sulfation
aliphatic alcohols, phenols, amines, N-oxides, N-hydroxyls Not carboxylic acids
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Sulfation is catalyzed by: | How many are there?
SULTS 14 human SULTs
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Example of sulfation rxn:
17 beta-estradiol to Estradiol-3-sulfate via SULT1E1
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Glutathione conjugation mechanism
transfer of a glutathione (Glu-Cys-Gly) group to an electrophilic atom
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Glutathione substrates
epoxides, arene oxides, nitro groups, hydroxylamines
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Glutathione is catalyzed by: | How many are there?
Glutathione transferases (GSTs) 24human GSTs Cytosolic, microsomal, mitochondrial enzymes
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Acetylation Mechanism: Substrates: Catalyzed by:
Phase II metabolism Transfers acetyl group from co-factor acetyl coenzyme A to an amino group on a substrate Substrates are amines Catalyzed by N-acetyltransferases NAT1 and NAT2 are located in cytosol
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Methylation Mechanism: Substrates: Catalyzed by:
Phase II metabolism Transfers a methyl group from the cofactor S-adenosylmethionine (SAM)to an electron-rich heteroatom (O, N, or S) on a substrate; C-methylation is possible but rare Substrates: phenols, catechols, aliphatic and aromatic amines, N-heterocyclic compounds, and sulfhydryl-containing compounds; certain metals can also be methylated (inorganic mercury, arsenic, selenium) usually decreases the water solubility of xenobiotics (exception: N-methylation of pyridine-containing compounds, which produces quaternary ammonium ions, and S-methylation of thioethers which produces positively charged sulfonium ions) Catalyzed by methyltransferases: COMT, POMT, PNMT, HNMT, NNMT, and others

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