RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Role of Extrahepatic Metabolism in the Pharmacokinetics of the Targeted Covalent Inhibitors Afatinib, Ibrutinib, and Neratinib
JF Drug Metabolism and Disposition
JO Drug Metab Dispos
FD American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
SP 375
OP 384
DO 10.1124/dmd.114.061424
VO 43
IS 3
A1 Shibata, Yoshihiro
A1 Chiba, Masato
YR 2015
UL http://dmd.aspetjournals.org/content/43/3/375.abstract
AB Despite the fact that much progress has been made recently in the development of targeted covalent inhibitors (TCIs), their pharmacokinetics (PK) have not been well characterized in the light of extrahepatic clearance (CLextH) by glutathione (GSH)/glutathione S-transferase (GST)-dependent conjugation attributable to the unique electrophilic structure (e.g., acrylamide moiety) of TCI compounds. In the present study, CLextH values were examined in rat, dog, and monkey to predict the contribution of CLextH to the PK of the TCIs afatinib, ibrutinib, and neratinib in humans. Afatinib and neratinib both underwent extensive conjugation with GSH in buffer and cytosol fractions of liver and kidney, whereas ibrutinib showed much lower reactivity/susceptibility to GSH/GST-dependent conjugation. The CLextH in each species was calculated from the difference between observed total body clearance and predicted hepatic clearance (CLH) in cryopreserved hepatocytes suspended in 100% serum of the corresponding species. The power-based simple allometry relating the CLextH for the unbound compound to animal body weight was applicable across species for afatinib and neratinib (R2 ≥ 0.9) but not for ibrutinib (R2 = 0.04). The predicted AUC after oral administration of afatinib and neratinib agreed reasonably closely with reported values in phase I dose-escalation studies. Comparisons of CLextH and CLH predicted that CLextH largely determined the PK of afatinib (>90% as a proportion of total body clearance) and neratinib (∼34%) in humans. The present method can serve as one of the tools for the optimization of PK in humans at the discovery stage for the development of TCI candidates.