Drug metabolism Flashcards
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Processes that prevent continuous drug action
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elimination/excreation
metabolism
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Drug metabolites are usually more ________ then the drug ingested thus easliy excreated
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poloar
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most drugs enter the body _______ thus are difficult to excrete
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lipophilic
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In most cases metabolism will take active drug–>
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inactive metabolite
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A drug that is converted to active form by drug metabolizing enZ
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prodrug
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a prodrug is inactive until
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metabolized
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the more drugs we take the more at risk we are for
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adverse affects
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Drugs withdrawn from the market often d/t this reason
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drug-drug interactions d/t drug metabolism
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These guys do oxidation, reduction, dealkylation or hydrolysis
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Phase I enZ
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This enZ will often introdue or reaveal a functional group
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Phase I enZ
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Phase I enZ actions
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oxidation, reduction, dealkylation or hyrolysis and introduce or reveal a functional group
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These guys have conjugation of durg or durg metaboliet to endogenous substrate molecule
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Phase II enZ
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responsible for : Drug + conjugant–> Drug-conjugant
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Phase II enZ
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CYPs are examples of
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Phase I enx
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CYPs will often
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make lipophilic drugs more soluble in water
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These guys add large, polar conjugates to make drug super water soluble
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phase II
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Common location for drug metabolizing agents
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portals of entry/exit
liver (HIGHEST)
GI, kidneys, lungs
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Subcellularly where are the Phase I enZ located ?
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In the SER microsomes
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Subcellularly, where are phase II enZ located?
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most are cytosilc
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What venous system will take drugs to liver from the GI system
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portal venous sytem
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What drug administration is exposed to 1st pass effect
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orally administered
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Significant drug metabolism can occur before reaching general circulation d/t
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first pass in intestines and liver
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Drugs exposed to 1st pass will need _____ dose
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higher
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bioavialibty will ______ d/t first pass
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lower F
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F for IV administration
1 or 100%
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What are two reasons for poor F
poor absorption or large first pass effect
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Morphines's F d/t first pass
.33
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If i gave IV dose of 10 mg of morphine to relieve pain, what oral dose would i need to match that?
30 mg
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Two key Phase I enZ
Cytochrome P450s = CYPs
| Flavin-containing monooxygenases
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Cytochrome P450s and Flavin-containing monooxygenases are examples of:
Phase I enZ
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P450's are anchored to:
outer face of ER
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Core of P450's
Fe
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P450's conjugate what to our substrates (drug)
O2 and we get S-OH +H20
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P450 reductase use what to get the 2e- to add to our substrate?
NADPH --> NADP + 2e-
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molecular ration of P450s per P450 reductase
10-20 P450s: 1 P450reductase
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CYP stands for
cytochrome
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CYP2B10: 2 stands for
gene family
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CYP2B10: B stands for
Gene subfamliy
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CYP2B10: 10 stands for
isoform
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Human P450's has _____ families
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3 P450's involved in drug metabolism
CYP1, CYP2, CYP3
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There are _____ human P450 genes
| with _____ of them involved in drug metabolism
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| 15
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Inidivudual differences in _____ result in big difference of catyltic activity and drub metabolism
isofrm
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This CYP handles 50% of drug metabolism
CYP3A
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CYP3A handles____ % drug metabolism
50
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This cyp handles 25% drug metabolism
CYP2D6: DEPRESSENTS
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This CYP handles 19% drug metabolizm
CYP2C19: includes warfarin, phenytoin
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Relative CYP isoform content does/does not equate to significance in role of drug metabolism
does not
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CYP 2D6 responsible for metabolism of _____%
| and has ______% expression
25% drugs
| 1.5% is expressed
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FMO stands for
flavin-containig monooxygenase
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What are the substrates for flavin monooxygenase (FMO)
soft nucleophiles like N, SP or Se
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Does FMO react with endogenous soft nuecleophiles?
nope, just interacts with exogenous soft Nu's
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what are expamples of endogenous soft nucelophiles
glutathione or cysteine
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FMO's have broader or more specific substarte profile then P450's
broader
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What type of products do Flavin-containing monooxygenases procude?
more polar and less toxic then CYPs
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What results in broad substrate range for FMO's?
it's hydorperoxyflavin intermediates
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What FMO is expressed in liver, brain and kidney?
FMO3
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FMO3 makes up 2-3% of protein in
kidney
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key FMO in liver
FMO3
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Glucuronidation, sulfination and Acetylation are exapmles of
phase II enZ
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UDP-glucoronic acid is example of
phase II enZ that does glucuronidation
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PAPS is used in
sulfination; a phase II enZ
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Acetyl Co-A involved in what?
acetylation in phase II enZ
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Gluthathione conjucation is type of
phase II enZ
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EnZ responsible for glucuronidation?
UDP-glucuronosyl transferase (UGT)
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EnZ responsible for acetylation
N-acetyltransferase (NAT)
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EnZ responsible for sulfination
Slufotransferases (SULT)
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EnZ responsible for Glutathione conjucation
Glutathione S- transfereases (GST)
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(NAT) stands for
N-acetyltransferase
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(SULT) stands for
Sulfotransferases
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(GST) stands for
Glutathione S- transfereases
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(UGT) stands for
UDP-glucuronosyl transferase
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IG, Phase II enZ makes metabolites more:
polar and less toxic
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NAT does what to metabolites
makes some more polar, others less polar but makes most less toxic
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Phase II enZ resposible for metabolism of almost half drugs
UGTs
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bilirubin is metabolized by which phse II enz
UGT's
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What affects the Vmax of the Phase II enZ?
amount of conjugant available
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Glucuronidation has _____ conjugant capacity and ______ amt of raw materials for conjugation
High conjugation capacity
| High amt of materials available
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Sulfonation has ______ conjugation capacity and ______ abundance of raw materials for conjucation available
Low conjucation capacity
| low abundance of raw materials
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Gutathione conjucation has ______ conjucation capacity and _____ abundance of raw materials for conjucation
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low conjucgation capacity
low materials (humans have high GSH initially, but gets rapidly depleated)
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Two most common types of drug metabolism interactions:
EnZ induction
| EnZ inhibition
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Exposure to certain drugs/enviro chemicals will upregulate durg metabolizing enZ amount and or activity via transcription increase:
EnZ Induction
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end result of enZ induction
more enZ d/t increased transcription = faster metabolism
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Ethanol is an inducer of:
CYP2E1
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Are Phase II enZ suseptible to enZ induction?
yes, UGTs and GST's are induced by stuff like tobaccoo smoke, PAH or benzoapyrene
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A single inducer can affect _____ drugs handled by that enZ
many drugs
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EnZ indcuction increases
drug metabolism
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Induction has what sort of affect on drug effects
can increase or decrease them
| --depends on if metabolite is inactive or active
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How long does induction take?
1-2 days
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Are inducers quantally equal?
no
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Inducers of specific isoforms (CYP isoforms) are substrates (T/F)
F: they may or may not be substrates
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T/F: all substartes are inducers
fales, NOT all substrates are inducers
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Some inducers are substartes (T/F)
true
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Inhibitors of drug metabolizing enZ will inhibit enZ activity, but not:
gene expression
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Drug inhibitors include:
competitive and non-competitive
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3 types of P450 Inhibitors
Competitive substrates
Bind CYP heme--distrupts catalytic activity (non-competitive)
Suicide inhibitors (irreversible and non-competitive)
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Major cauase of CYP releated drug interactions are due to:
competitive substrates
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By binding CYP heme, these P450 inhibitors will:
distrupt catalytic activity (non-competitive)
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How long does enZ inhibition take
immediate effect
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How much does inhibition affect drug metabolism
highly variabel: depends on enZ and inhibitor and could be small or large effect
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Serveral CYP2D6 inhibitors will reduce it's activity to:
nearly zero
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Grapefruit juice will _______ drug absorption
INCREASE
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Grapefruit juice inhibits this intestinal CYP
CYP3A
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By inhibiting CYP3A, grapeftruit juice will
increase net amount abosorbed to general circulation
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the responsible ingrediant in grapefruit that inhibits intestinal CYP3A
furanocourmarin
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Grapefruit juice is a big no for this CYP that handles 50% of drug metabolizm
CYP3A
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FMO's are _______induced or inhibited by clinically used drugs
NOT significantly
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These guys are less suseptible to competitive subtrate inhibition than P450's
FMOs
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Whats the benefit to drugs that are handled by FMO's
less potential for metabolic drug-drug interactions
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other factors that affect drug metabolism
age, genetics, disease states, gender
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most common cause of acute hepatic failure in US
acetaminophen use
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Second most common cause of liver fail requiring transplant
acetaminophen use
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First line Phase II's that breakdown Acetaminiophen
SULT and UGT
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What CYP will act on acetaminophen
CYP2E1
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What will induce action of CYP2E1
ethenol
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Product of acetaminophen--> CYP2E1 is
toxic and needs to be broken down by GST
