scholarly journals Drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics of praziquantel: A review of variable drug exposure during schistosomiasis treatment in human hosts and experimental models

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. e0008649
Author(s):  
Grace Zdesenko ◽  
Francisca Mutapi
Author(s):  
Chenqiang Jia ◽  
Zhuqing Zhang ◽  
Jun Tang ◽  
Mei-Chun Cai ◽  
Jingyu Zang ◽  
...  

GSDME is a newly recognized executor of cellular pyroptosis, and has been recently implicated in tumor growth and immunity. However, knowledge about the molecular regulators underlying GSDME abundance remains limited. Here, we performed integrative bioinformatics analyses and identified that epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) gene signatures exhibited positive correlation with GSDME levels across human cancers. A causal role was supported by the observation that EMT dictated GSDME reversible upregulation in multiple experimental models. Mechanistically, transcriptional activation of GSDME was directly driven by core EMT-activating transcription factors ZEB1/2, which bound to the GSDME promoter region. Of functional importance, elevated GSDME in mesenchymally transdifferentiated derivatives underwent proteolytic cleavage upon antineoplastic drug exposure, leading to pyroptotic cell death and consequent cytokine release. Taken together, our findings pinpointed a key transcriptional machinery controlling GSDME expression and indicated potential therapeutic avenues to exploit GSDME-mediated inflammatory pyroptosis for the treatment of mesenchymal malignancies.


2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Chen Tien ◽  
Ke Lu ◽  
Chad Pope ◽  
Xiaochao Ma ◽  
Xiao‐bo Zhong

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja S. Just ◽  
Harald Dormann ◽  
Mathias Freitag ◽  
Marlen Schurig ◽  
Miriam Böhme ◽  
...  

Cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2D6 is a polymorphic enzyme expressed in the central nervous system (CNS), important in drug metabolism and with a potentially constitutive role in CNS function such as vigilance. This study aimed to analyze variability in CYP2D6 activity linked to vigilance-related adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in the CNS. A dataset of N = 2939 ADR cases of the prospective multicenter observational trial in emergency departments (EDs) (ADRED; trial registration: DRKS-ID: DRKS00008979) was analyzed. Dizziness as the most frequent reported CNS ADR symptom (12.7% of patients, n = 372) related to vigilance was chosen as the outcome. The association of dizziness with CYP2D6 activity markers was analyzed. The number of CYP2D6 substrates taken, a CYP2D6 saturation score (no, moderate, and strong saturation), a CYP2D6 saturation/inhibition score (no, weak, moderate, and strong), and composed CYP2D6 activity using a genotyped subsample (n = 740) calculating additive effects of genotype and CYP2D6 saturation by drug exposure were used as CYP2D6 activity markers. Effects were compared to other frequent nonvigilance-related CNS ADR symptoms (syncope and headache). Secondary analyses were conducted to control for other ADR symptoms frequently associated with dizziness (syncope, nausea, and falls). The majority of all patients (64.5%, n = 1895) took at least one drug metabolized by CYP2D6. Around a third took a CNS drug (32.5%, n = 955). The chance to present with drug-related dizziness to the ED increased with each CYP2D6 substrate taken by OR 1.11 [1.01–1.23]. Presenting with drug-related dizziness was more likely with CYP2D6 saturation and saturation/inhibition (both OR 1.27 [1.00–1.60]). The composed CYP2D6 activity was positively associated with dizziness (p = 0.028), while poorer activity affected patients more often with dizziness as an ADR. In contrast, nonvigilance-related ADR symptoms such as syncope and nausea were not consistently significantly associated with CYP2D6 activity markers. This study shows an association between the number of CYP2D6 substrates, the predicted CYP2D6 activity, and the occurrence of dizziness as a CNS ADR symptom. As dizziness is a vigilance-related CNS symptom, patients with low CYP2D6 activity might be more vulnerable to drug-related dizziness. This study underlines the need for understanding individual drug metabolism activity and individual risks for ADRs.


Author(s):  
Gang Luo ◽  
Chuang Lu ◽  
Xinxin Ding ◽  
Donglu Zhang

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 10515-10515
Author(s):  
Daniel Louis Hertz ◽  
Elizabeth Claire Dees ◽  
Alison A. Motsinger-Reif ◽  
Amy Drobish ◽  
Siddharth Roy ◽  
...  

10515 Background: Peripheral neuropathy is the most common severe toxicity in patients treated with paclitaxel. Putative genetic mutations in genes relevant to drug metabolism, distribution, and elimination may explain the differences in risk of neurotoxicity among patients. Using a genotyping platform that interrogates nearly 2,000 known variants in drug exposure genes, we hypothesized that polymorphisms could be identified which modulate a patient’s risk of neuropathy during paclitaxel treatment. Methods: Subjects included in this study were treated for breast cancer with paclitaxel-containing regimens. Clinical data, including patient characteristics and toxicity, was collected prospectively in an observational registry. Blood was collected at diagnosis and genotyped using the Affymetrix DMET Plus chip at Gentris. The primary endpoint was grade 2+ neuropathy as defined by NCI CTC criteria. Statistical analysis was carried out using Fisher’s exact test for each SNP, without assumption of a specific genetic model. For this hypothesis-generating study, a p-value of <0.001 was selected for significance. Results: 412 breast cancer patients treated with paclitaxel were included in the analysis. The median age was 50, 107 (26%) were African-American, and 48 (12%) had preexisting diabetes. The prevalence of grade 2+ neuropathy was 18.5% in the cohort. After exclusion of SNPs based on call rate, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, and allele frequency, 564 SNPs were interrogated for an association with grade 2+ neuropathy. Two SNPs, rs3788007 (ABCG1_43706676G>A[Intron]) and rs6163 (CYP17A1_195G>T[S65S]), were associated with grade 2+ neurotoxicity p=0.0003 (OR=3.54, 95% CI: 1.77-7.72) and p=0.0008 (OR=0.35, 95%CI: 0.18-0.66), respectively. Conclusions: We identified two SNPs, both in genes not previously investigated in paclitaxel pharmacogenetic studies, which were associated with modified risk of paclitaxel-induced neuropathy. Both genes are implicated in endogenous steroid biology, which is thought to be relevant to neuropathy development, and one SNP (rs6163) is in high LD (r2=0.93) with a SNP recently reported to be associated with bortezomib-induced neuropathy.


Genes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1509
Author(s):  
Laura M. de Jong ◽  
Wim Jiskoot ◽  
Jesse J. Swen ◽  
Martijn L. Manson

Personalized medicine strives to optimize drug treatment for the individual patient by taking into account both genetic and non-genetic factors for drug response. Inflammation is one of the non-genetic factors that has been shown to greatly affect the metabolism of drugs—primarily through inhibition of cytochrome P450 (CYP450) drug-metabolizing enzymes—and hence contribute to the mismatch between the genotype predicted drug response and the actual phenotype, a phenomenon called phenoconversion. This review focuses on inflammation-induced drug metabolism alterations. In particular, we discuss the evidence assembled through human in-vitro models on the effect of inflammatory mediators on clinically relevant CYP450 isoform levels and their metabolizing capacity. We also present an overview of the current understanding of the mechanistic pathways via which inflammation in hepatocytes may modulate hepatic functions that are critical for drug metabolism. Furthermore, since large inter-individual variability in response to inflammation is observed in human in-vitro models and clinical studies, we evaluate the potential role of pharmacogenetic variability in the inflammatory signaling cascade and how this can modulate the outcome of inflammation on drug metabolism and response.


2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Zuber ◽  
Eva Anzenbacherová ◽  
P. Anzenbacher

Author(s):  
Helen Hammer ◽  
Felix Schmidt ◽  
Philip Marx-Stoelting ◽  
Oliver Pötz ◽  
Albert Braeuning

Abstract Most drugs and xenobiotics are metabolized in the liver. Amongst others, different cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes catalyze the metabolic conversion of foreign compounds, and various transport proteins are engaged in the excretion of metabolites from the hepatocytes. Inter-species and inter-individual differences in the hepatic levels and activities of drug-metabolizing enzymes and transporters result from genetic as well as from environmental factors, and play a decisive role in determining the pharmacokinetic properties of a compound in a given test system. To allow for a meaningful comparison of results from metabolism studies, it is, therefore, of utmost importance to know about the specific metabolic properties of the test systems, especially about the levels of metabolic enzymes such as the CYPs. Using a targeted proteomics approach, we, therefore, compared the hepatic levels of important CYP enzymes and transporters in different experimental systems in vivo and in vitro, namely Wistar rats, C57/Bl6 mice, mice humanized for the two xeno-sensing receptors PXR (pregnane-X-receptor) and CAR (constitutive androstane receptor), mice with human hepatocyte-repopulated livers, human HepaRG hepatocarcinoma cells, primary human hepatocytes, and human liver biopsies. In addition, the effects of xenobiotic inducers of drug metabolism on CYP enzymes and transporters were analyzed in selected systems. This study for the first time presents a comprehensive overview of similarities and differences in important drug metabolism-related proteins among the different experimental models.


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