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Mutual Inhibition between Quinine and Etoposide by Human Liver Microsomes

Evidence for Cytochrome P4503A4 Involvement in Their Major Metabolic Pathways

Xue-Jun Zhao, Takashi Kawashiro and Takashi Ishizaki
Drug Metabolism and Disposition February 1998, 26 (2) 188-191;
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Evidence for Cytochrome P4503A4 Involvement in Their Major Metabolic Pathways

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The mutual inhibition between quinine and etoposide with their major metabolic pathways (i.e. quinine 3-hydroxylation and etoposide 3′-demethylation) was examined in vitro by human liver microsomes. Etoposide inhibited quinine 3-hydroxylation in a concentration-dependent manner with a mean IC50of 65 μM. The mean maximum inhibition by etoposide (100 μM) of quinine 3-hydroxylation was about 60%. Similarly, etoposide 3′-demethylation was inhibited by quinine in a concentration-related manner with a mean IC50 value of 90 μM. The mean maximum inhibition by quinine (100 M) of etoposide 3′-demethylation was about 52%. An excellent correlation (r = 0.947, p < 0.01) between quinine 3-hydroxylase and etoposide 3′-demethylase activities in six different human liver microsomes was observed. Two inhibitors of CYP3A4, ketoconazole (1 μM) and troleandomycin (100 μM), inhibited quinine 3-hydroxylation by about 90% and 80%, and etoposide 3′-demethylation by about 75% and 65%, respectively. We conclude that quinine and etoposide mutually inhibit the metabolism of each other, consistent with the previous finding that CYP3A4 catalyzes the metabolism of both substrates.

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  • Send reprint requests to: Takashi Ishizaki, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Research Institute, International Medical Center of Japan, 1–21-2 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162, Japan.

  • This study was supported by a grant-in-aid from the Ministry of Human Health and Walfare, Tokyo, Japan.

    • Received August 7, 1997.
    • Accepted November 11, 1997.
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