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Division of Clinical Pharmacology [C. W., R. B. K., G. R. W., A. J. J. W.], Department of Biochemistry and Center in Molecular Toxicology [F. P. G.], Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-6602, and Central Research Division, Pfizer, Inc., Connecticut 06340 [S. K.]
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In addition to their effects as P-gp inhibitors, many chemomodulating agents also inhibit cytochrome P-450 3A (CYP3A) activity (20 , 21) , which is the most abundant cytochrome P-450 enzyme present in human liver and intestine and is known to be involved in the metabolism of a large number of drugs including anticancer agents (22) . Some anticancer drugs such as taxol are metabolized by CYP3A to products that lack antitumor activity (23) ; in contrast, CYP3A-mediated metabolism of tamoxifen, methoxymorpholinyldoxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, and ifosfamide (CYP3A/2B) produce metabolites, some of which have antitumor activity greater than the parent compound (24, 25, 26) . For drugs requiring activation, the administration of P-gp inhibitors, which are also CYP3A inhibitors, may result in a reduced therapeutic effect, despite the P-gp inhibition-mediated, enhanced intracellular accumulation of the parent drug. Conversely, for drugs, the elimination of which is dependent on CYP3A, inhibition of CYP3A by P-gp inhibitors may cause excessive drug accumulation and increased toxicity, resulting in the need to reduce the dose of chemotherapeutic agent (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19) . Accordingly, an understanding of the likelihood of CYP3A interactions with P-gp inhibitors is essential for their rational use.
The purpose of the present study was, therefore, to determine the quantitative relationship between P-gp and CYP3A inhibition of a series of compounds with established P-gp inhibitory properties.
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Measurement of CYP3A Activity.
CYP3A activity was determined in human liver microsomes prepared from human liver sample HL110 (Nashville Regional Organ Procurement Agency, Nashville, TN) as described (29)
with the total cytochrome P-450 content measured as described by Omura and Sato (30)
. CYP3A activity was assessed in duplicate by the formation rate of the nifedipine metabolite (dehydronifedipine). Briefly, the incubation medium consisted of microsomes containing 100 pmol cytochrome P-450, 1.5 mM NADPH, nifedipine at various concentrations (15, 20, 30, 60, and 200 µM), and 10 µl of various inhibitor concentrations diluted in DMSO, resulting in final inhibitor concentrations between 0.5 and 40 µM in a total volume of 500 µl 0.1 M phosphate buffer (pH 7.4). Control incubations without addition of inhibitor were also performed in the presence of 2% DMSO. At this concentration of DMSO, nifedipine oxidation was reduced by 25% (data not shown). To avoid variability in CYP3A activity due to differing DMSO concentrations, 2% DMSO was used in all incubation procedures. Incubations were performed at 37°C and stopped after 10 min by the addition of 1 ml of CH2Cl2. The nifedipine metabolite was measured by HPLC-UV as described elsewhere (31)
with an interassay variability of <5%. The Michaelis-Menten kinetics (apparent Vmax, apparent Km) were calculated using a nonlinear regression computer program ("kcat"; BioMetallics, Princeton, NJ). The type of inhibition and the inhibition constant (apparent Ki) were derived from appropriate replotting of the Lineweaver-Burk plot (32)
. IC50s were calculated by the same procedure as for P-gp inhibition, using a nifedipine concentration of 20 µM.
Statistics.
Significance of inhibition for CYP3A and P-gp were determined using a Students t test or Mann-Whitney U test, with P < 0.05 being taken as the minimum level of significance accepted. Data are expressed as means ± SD.
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Comparison of P-gp with CYP3A Inhibition.
The relative inhibition ratio of IC50 (CYP3A):IC50 (P-gp) varied widely (1.06125; Fig. 3B
). However, a statistically significant correlation of the CYP3A and P-gp inhibition IC50s was not observed (r2 = 0.17, P = 0.16; n = 12).
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This study demonstrates that there is a large range in the potency of these compounds as both P-gp and CYP3A inhibitors. All of the compounds exhibited some inhibitory effect on CYP3A. However, an important finding was that no significant correlation exists between the ability of the compounds to inhibit P-gp and their ability to inhibit CYP3A. Although some of the most potent P-gp inhibitors were also the most potent CYP3A inhibitors (e.g., CP114416), conversely, some relatively potent CYP3A inhibitors were relatively poor P-gp inhibitors (e.g., CP99542; Fig. 3A
). Thus, the molecular recognition sites of P-gp and CYP3A differ in ways that result in differential effects of compounds at the two sites.
From a scientific standpoint, P-gp inhibitory potency would appear to be the most important factor in developing a P-gp inhibitor. However, with regard to therapeutic utility, this may not be the case if such inhibition is also accompanied by a significant CYP3A interaction. A less potent P-gp inhibitor but one without or with minimal CYP3A inhibitory effect might be more desirable, provided adequate concentrations can be achieved in vivo. Such selectivity can be assessed by the ratio of IC50 (CYP3A):IC50 (P-gp). Given that the higher the IC50 the higher the drug concentration required for inhibition, those drugs with the highest ratios will be those with the greatest selectivity for P-gp inhibition. Of the drugs studied, CP100356 has the highest selectivity ratio (Fig. 3B)
, although it was not the most potent P-gp inhibitor. Interestingly, the cyclosporine derivative PSC833 showed a high selectivity index of about 90, in contrast to the low ratio (2.3) for cyclosporine itself, implying that compounds with similar chemical structures can substantially differ in their ability to inhibit P-gp and CYP3A. By the use of the selectivity index, it should be possible to screen compounds for their relative effects on transport and drug metabolism. This will allow the selection of those compounds that produce the greatest inhibition of drug transport and, hence, reversal of multidrug resistance, minimizing, at the same time, the increase in plasma concentrations due to inhibition of drug metabolism and loss of drug efficacy due to reduction in metabolic activation.
The disappointing therapeutic effects of P-gp inhibitors in cancer therapy thus far may reflect the fact that in many of the studies, the P-gp inhibition strategy used drugs like verapamil and cyclosporine, which are established and readily available. However, as can be seen in Fig. 3
, these are drugs with relatively low potency and low selectivity indices, implying that the high concentrations required to inhibit P-gp would also produce CYP3A inhibition. Concentrations of these drugs achieved clinically range up to 10 µM for quinidine, 0.4 µM for cyclosporine, and 0.4 µM for verapamil. The duality of effects of these P-gp inhibitors on both P-gp and CYP3A will result in multiple effects at different tissue sites so that inhibition of P-gp will increase tumor concentration, increase oral absorption, and increase central nervous system penetration. In addition, inhibition of CYP3A will further enhance oral absorption and decrease hepatic metabolism with consequent further increase in plasma concentration. The therapeutic/toxic effects of the changes will depend on whether CYP3A is involved in activation or detoxification of the drug in question (16, 17, 18, 19)
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In conclusion, this study has demonstrated the considerable overlap in the activity of inhibitors of P-gp on CYP3A. The use of first generation P-gp inhibitors such as verapamil and cyclosporine with poor P-gp selectivity may be complicated by metabolic drug interactions with the anticancer drug regimen. Even small structural modifications, such as cyclosporine to PSC833, can profoundly alter the selectivity of the drug. Therefore, if potent P-gp-selective agents can be developed that minimize the risk of CYP3A-mediated metabolic interactions with the anticancer drug regimen, this should result in improved therapeutic specificity and efficacy.
| FOOTNOTES |
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1 Supported by USPHS Grants GM 31304, CA 44353, and ES 00267. ![]()
2 To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-6602. Phone: (615) 343-8701; Fax: (615) 343-2551; E-mail: alastair.wood{at}mcmail.vanderbilt.edu ![]()
3 The abbreviation used is: P-gp, P-glycoprotein. ![]()
Received 12/ 3/98. Accepted 6/16/99.
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