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Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics (W.L.F., P.W.B., Y.T., A.T.), Medicinal Chemistry (L.L., F.L.-T., Y.L., D.N.), and Radiochemistry (M.R.M., A.V.) Departments, Roche Palo Alto, LLC, Palo Alto, California
The metabolic fate of three aromatic carboxylic acid analogs under evaluation as prostaglandin I2-preferring receptor antagonists was studied. The initial analog with unsubstituted phenyl groups was subject to a complex set of aromatic oxidative biotransformations. By introduction of one or two fluorines, these pathways were inhibited. All three analogs were metabolized to a wide variety of carboxylic acid conjugates. Among these were several conjugates formed via secondary metabolism and oxidation of acyl glutathione intermediates. Two of the structure classes, represented by the S-methyl-N-cysteinylglycine conjugate and the N-cysteinylglycine disulfide conjugates, have been described only rarely in the literature. The related S-oxide of the S-methyl-N-cysteinylglycine conjugate and the N,S-bis-acyl derivative of cysteinylglycine are here described for the first time as conjugate metabolites of car boxylic drugs.