Abstract
Cytochrome P450 2J2 (CYP2J2) is an enzyme responsible for the metabolism of endogenous substrates including arachidonic acid, as well as therapeutic drugs such as albendazole, astemizole, ebastine, and terfenadine. Selective inhibitors of CYP2J2 are essential for P450 reaction phenotyping studies. To find representative CYP2J2 index inhibitors, we evaluated the inhibitory potential of danazol, hydroxyebastine, telmisartan, and terfenadone against CYP2J2 activity for four representative CYP2J2 substrates (albendazole, astemizole, ebastine, and terfenadine) using recombinant CYP2J2. Of these four CYP2J2 inhibitors, danazol strongly inhibited CYP2J2-mediated albendazole, astemizole, ebastine, and terfenadine metabolism in a substrate-independent manner, with IC50 values of 0.05, 0.07, 0.18, and 0.34 μM, respectively. Danazol noncompetitively inhibited CYP2J2-mediated astemizole O-demethylation activities with a Ki value of 0.06 μM. Terfenadone strongly inhibited CYP2J2-mediated albendazole, astemizole, and terfenadine metabolism (IC50 < 0.21 μM), whereas it showed weak inhibition against CYP2J2-catalyzed ebastine hydroxylase activity (IC50 = 6.04 μM). Telmisartan had no inhibitory effect on CYP2J2-mediated ebastine and terfenadine hydroxylation (IC50 > 20 μM). Taken together, these data suggest that danazol may be used as a CYP2J2 index inhibitor in reaction phenotyping studies.
Footnotes
- Received March 18, 2015.
- Accepted June 5, 2015.
E.L. and Z.W. contributed equally to this work.
This study was supported by grants from the National Research Foundation of Korea, Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning [NRF-2014M3A9D9069714]; and Ministry of Education [NRF-2013R1A1A2008442], Republic of Korea.
- Copyright © 2015 by The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
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