Abstract
Thiocoraline is a potent new marine anti-cancer drug in vitro, which will be tested in phase I clinical studies shortly. To assess the biotransformation and the potential implications for human pharmacology and toxicology, the in vitro metabolism of thiocoraline was characterized using human plasma, human liver preparations, cytochrome P450 (CYP) and uridine diphosphoglucuronosyl transferase (UGT) supersomes and human cell lines. Thiocoraline is significantly metabolized by enzymes present in human plasma; t 1/2 shifted from 25.2 h in phosphate buffered saline to 4.3 h in human plasma. Using CYP supersomes it was shown that thiocoraline is mainly metabolized by CYP3A4, with CYP1A1, CYP2C8 and CYP2C9 playing a minor role in the biotransformation (
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 241-251 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Investigational New Drugs |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2004 |
Keywords
- Biotransformation
- Conjugation
- Cytochrome P450 (CYP)
- Human cell lines
- Human liver fractions
- Supersomes
- Thiocoraline
- Uridine diphosphoglucuronosyl transferase (UGT)