ABSTRACT:The absorption, metabolism, and excretion of (1-[[3-hydroxy-1-adamantyl) amino] acetyl]-2-cyano-(S)-pyrrolidine (vildagliptin), an orally active and highly selective dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibitor developed for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, were evaluated in four healthy male subjects after a single p.o. 100-mg dose of [ 14 C]vildagliptin. Serial blood and complete urine and feces were collected for 168 h postdose. Vildagliptin was rapidly absorbed, and peak plasma concentrations were attained at 1.1 h postdose. The fraction of drug absorbed was calculated to be at least 85.4%. Unchanged drug and a carboxylic acid metabolite (M20.7) were the major circulating components in plasma, accounting for 25.7% (vildagliptin) and 55% (M20.7) of total plasma radioactivity area under the curve. The terminal half-life of vildagliptin was 2.8 h. Complete recovery of the dose was achieved within 7 days, with 85.4% recovered in urine (22.6% unchanged drug) and the remainder in feces (4.54% unchanged drug). Vildagliptin was extensively metabolized via at least four pathways before excretion, with the major metabolite M20.7 resulting from cyano group hydrolysis, which is not mediated by cytochrome P450 (P450) enzymes. Minor metabolites resulted from amide bond hydrolysis (M15.3), glucuronidation (M20.2), or oxidation on the pyrrolidine moiety of vildagliptin (M20.9 and M21.6). The diverse metabolic pathways combined with a lack of significant P450 metabolism (1.6% of the dose) make vildagliptin less susceptible to potential pharmacokinetic interactions with comedications of P450 inhibitors/inducers. Furthermore, as vildagliptin is not a P450 inhibitor, it is unlikely that vildagliptin would affect the metabolic clearance of comedications metabolized by P450 enzymes.
Cytochrome P450s (P450s) constitute one of the major classes of enzymes that are responsible for detoxification of exogenous molecules both in animals and plants. On the basis of its inducibility by exogenous chemicals, we recently isolated a new plant P450, CYP76B1, from Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) and showed that it was capable of dealkylating a model xenobiotic compound, 7-ethoxycoumarin. In the present paper we show that CYP76B1 is more strongly induced by foreign compounds than other P450s isolated from the same plant, and metabolizes with high efficiency a wide range of xenobiotics, including alkoxycoumarins, alkoxyresorufins, and several herbicides of the class of phenylureas. CYP76B1 catalyzes the double N-dealkylation of phenylureas with turnover rates comparable to those reported for physiological substrates and produces nonphytotoxic compounds. Potential uses for CYP76B1 thus include control of herbicide tolerance and selectivity, as well as soil and groundwater bioremediation.
have been investigated. Microsomes from transformed yeast catalysed trans-cinnamate hydroxylation with high efficiency. CYP73 was highly specific for its natural substrate, and did not catalyse oxygenation of p-coumarate, benzoate, ferulate, naringenin or furanocoumarins. No metabolism of terpenoids or fatty acids, known substrates of plant P450s, was observed. CYP73 however demethylated the natural coumarin herniarin into umbelliferone. In addition, it was shown to oxygenate five xenobiotics and mechanism-based inactivators, including the herbicide chlorotoluron. All substrates of CYP73 were small planar aromatic molecules. Comparison of the kinetic parameters of CYP73 for its various substrates showed that, as expected, cinnamate was by far the best substrate of this P450. The physiological and toxicological significance of these observations are discussed.Cytochromes P450 form a large superfamily of several hundreds to several thousands of hemoproteins, involved in oxygen activation and oxygen tranfer into lipophilic molecules. They all share some sequence identity related to their common catalytic properties, i.e. heme and oxygen binding, electron transfer and oxygen activation [l]. Differences in their primary sequences usually reflect variations in specificity for substrates oxygenated. These differences may concern more than 80% of the amino acid sequence. However, the modification of a single amino acid residue can be sufficient to completely alter the substrate specificity of the enzyme 121.Full-length amino acid sequences presently available for plant P450s share less than 30% identity. This almost certainly implies great differences in the structures of their substrate binding sites. However, no relation between the structure of the enzymes and their catalytic activities has yet been established. CYP73 is the first DNA sequence coding for a plant P450 with an identified physiological function to have been isolated 131. It catalyses the 4-hydroxylation of trunscinnamic acid into p-coumaric acid. This hydroxylation is ductase (4-hydroxylating) (EC 1.14.13.11).the second reaction in the phenylpropanoid pathway. Cinnamate 4-hydroxylase (CA4H) is thus an obligatory step for the biosynthesis of lignin, a major component of the earth's total biomass. It is involved in the formation of most of the phenylpropanoid derivatives, essential for plant development, pigmentation and defense against both ultraviolet light and pathogens. Recent data [4-61 suggest that CA4H plays a central role in the regulation of the phenylpropanoid pathway. We, therefore, decided to establish more precisely which molecules are transformed by the enzyme or interfere with its catalytic activity. The determination of a population of substrates was also intended to provide information for analysis of the structurelfunction relationship of this plant P450. We devised an optimized system for the expression of CYP73 in Saccharomyces cerevisae [7]. This system provided yeast microsomes for which the only detectable P450 was CYP73. It routine...
Several and in-chain fatty acid hydroxylases have been characterized in higher plants. In microsomes from Helianthus tuberosus tuber the -2, -3, and -4 hydroxylation of lauric acid is catalyzed by one or a few closely related aminopyrine-and MnCl 2 -inducible cytochrome P450(s). To isolate the cDNA and determine the sequences of the(se) enzyme(s), we used antibodies directed against a P450-enriched fraction purified from Mn 2؉ -induced tissues. Screening of a cDNA expression library from aminopyrine-treated tubers led to the identification of a cDNA (CYP81B1) corresponding to a transcript induced by aminopyrine. CYP81B1 was expressed in yeast. A systematic exploration of its function revealed that it specifically catalyzes the hydroxylation of medium chain saturated fatty acids, capric (C10:0), lauric (C12:0), and myristic (C14:0) acids. The same metabolites were obtained with transgenic yeast and plant microsomes, a mixture of -1 to -5 monohydroxylated products. The three fatty acids were metabolized with high and similar efficiencies, the major position of attack depending on chain length. When lauric acid was the substrate, turnover was 30.7 ؎ 1.4 min ؊1 and K m(app) 788 ؎ 400 nM. No metabolism of long chain fatty acids, aromatic molecules, or herbicides was detected. This new fatty acid hydroxylase is typical from higher plants and differs from those already isolated from other living organisms.Engineering of lipid metabolism in oilseed crops has become one of the major objectives of plant biotechnology (1-4). Manipulation of fatty acid biosynthesis in transgenic plants offers a possibility for the improvement of the nutritional quality of vegetable oils, but also for redirecting plant metabolism toward production of renewable chemical feedstocks for industrial applications and replacement of petroleum-derived products. Alterations in fatty acid chain length, number, and position of double bonds have already been achieved. Next, valuable modifications will be achieved via introduction of functional groups to confer additional industrial commodities, such as increased or decreased solubility or fluidity, improved solvation of drugs or pesticides, presence of targets for chemical modifications, or synthesis of polymers. Among potential high value metabolites are the oxygenated (hydroxylated and epoxidized) products (5, 6).Plants are able to synthetize a whole range of oxygenated fatty acids (7). Some of them are major seed storage lipids in particular species. For example, castor bean endosperm produces a seed oil containing up to 90% ricinoleic acid (12R-hydroxyoctadec-cis-9-enoic acid). Other hydroxylated and epoxidized fatty acids constitute the building units of cutin and suberin, biopolymers that form the outer protective layers of all plant species (8). Different types of oxygenated derivatives are also released after mechanical stress or pathogen attack. Some of them play an important role in the signaling pathways and act as triggers of plant defense and plant development (9, 10). Others have been repo...
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