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QUANTITATIVE CONTRIBUTION OF CYP2D6 AND CYP3A TO OXYCODONE METABOLISM IN HUMAN LIVER AND INTESTINAL MICROSOMES

Bojan Lalovic, Brian Phillips, Linda L. Risler, William Howald and Danny D. Shen
Drug Metabolism and Disposition April 2004, 32 (4) 447-454; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/dmd.32.4.447
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Oxycodone undergoes N-demethylation to noroxycodone and O-demethylation to oxymorphone. The cytochrome P450 (P450) isoforms capable of mediating the oxidation of oxycodone to oxymorphone and noroxycodone were identified using a panel of recombinant human P450s. CYP3A4 and CYP3A5 displayed the highest activity for oxycodone N-demethylation; intrinsic clearance for CYP3A5 was slightly higher than that for CYP3A4. CYP2D6 had the highest activity for O-demethylation. Multienzyme, Michaelis-Menten kinetics were observed for both oxidative reactions in microsomes prepared from five human livers. Inhibition with ketoconazole showed that CYP3A is the high affinity enzyme for oxycodone N-demethylation; ketoconazole inhibited >90% of noroxycodone formation at low substrate concentrations. CYP3A-mediated noroxycodone formation exhibited a mean Km of 600 ± 119 μM and a Vmax that ranged from 716 to 14523 pmol/mg/min. Contribution from the low affinity enzyme(s) did not exceed 8% of total intrinsic clearance for N-demethylation. Quinidine inhibition showed that CYP2D6 is the high affinity enzyme for O-demethylation with a mean Km of 130 ± 33 μM and a Vmax that ranged from 89 to 356 pmol/mg/min. Activity of the low affinity enzyme(s) accounted for 10 to 26% of total intrinsic clearance for O-demethylation. On average, the total intrinsic clearance for noroxycodone formation was 8 times greater than that for oxymorphone formation across the five liver microsomal preparations (10.5 μl/min/mg versus 1.5 μl/min/mg). Experiments with human intestinal mucosal microsomes indicated lower N-demethylation activity (20-50%) compared with liver microsomes and negligible O-demethylation activity, which predict a minimal contribution of intestinal mucosa in the first-pass oxidative metabolism of oxycodone.

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  • ↵1 Abbreviations used are: P450, cytochrome P450; NOC, noroxycodone; OM, oxymorphone; HLM, human liver microsome; LC-MS, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry; PM, poor metabolizer.

  • Supported in part by National Institutes of Health Grant AT00864. B.L. is a recipient of the National Institutes of Health Pharmaceutical Sciences Training Grant (GM07750).

    • Received July 17, 2003.
    • Accepted December 29, 2003.
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QUANTITATIVE CONTRIBUTION OF CYP2D6 AND CYP3A TO OXYCODONE METABOLISM IN HUMAN LIVER AND INTESTINAL MICROSOMES

Bojan Lalovic, Brian Phillips, Linda L. Risler, William Howald and Danny D. Shen
Drug Metabolism and Disposition April 1, 2004, 32 (4) 447-454; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/dmd.32.4.447
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