TABLE 2

Kinetic parameters for the metabolism of ebastine, hydroxyebastine, and carebastine in recombinant human P450s

The values are estimated from nonlinear least regression analysis using WinNonlin.


Kinetic Parameters

Vmax

Km

Vmax/Km
pmol/min/pmol P450 μM μl/min/pmol P450
CYP3A4 Ebastine
    Dealkylation 3.34 7.67 0.44
    Hydroxylation 0.12 6.86 0.02
Hydroxyebastine
    Dealkylation 7.99 7.63 1.05
    Carboxylation 1.10 3.48 0.32
Carebastine
    Dealkylation 0.60 3.85 0.16
CYP3A5 Ebastine 0.74 5.56 0.13
    Dealkylation
    Hydroxylation 0.14 2.33 0.06
Hydroxyebastine
    Dealkylation 3.09 21.9 0.14
    Carboxylation 0.79 13.6 0.06
CYP2J2 Ebastine
    Hydroxylation 8.20 18.3 0.45
Hydroxyebastine

    Carboxylation
9.86
0.75