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Clinical Trial
. 2021 Aug;61(8):1027-1034.
doi: 10.1002/jcph.1817. Epub 2021 Apr 21.

Further Evaluation of Coproporphyrins as Clinical Endogenous Markers for OATP1B

Sheng Feng  1 , Qingyan Bo  2 , Hugh A Coleman  3 , Jean Eric Charoin  4 , Mingfen Zhu  2 , Jim Xiao  5 , Yuyan Jin  1
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Clinical Trial

Further Evaluation of Coproporphyrins as Clinical Endogenous Markers for OATP1B

Sheng Feng et al. J Clin Pharmacol. 2021 Aug.

Abstract

Coproporphyrins (CP-I and CP-III) in plasma are considered potential markers for assessing liver organic anion-transporting polypeptide transporter OATP1B activity and monitoring OATP1B-mediated drug-drug interactions (DDIs) in clinical settings. However, the effect of altered renal clearance (CLrenal ) on CP-I and CP-III plasma exposure has rarely been examined. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to further evaluate CP-I and CP-III as clinical endogenous markers for OATP1B activity and to investigate the impact of CLrenal on DDI assessments for the first time. In this study, 18 healthy participants were recruited to receive RO7049389 (a potential inhibitor of OATP1B) 800 mg twice daily for 6 days and a single dose of pitavastatin (a probe drug of OATP1B) before and after RO7049389 treatment. Plasma concentrations of pitavastatin, CP I, CP III, and the amounts of CP-I and CP-III excreted in urine were measured. Seventeen healthy participants completed the study. After multiple doses of RO7049389, the area under the plasma concentration-time curve from time 0 to 12 hours of pitavastatin increased 1.95-fold (90% confidence interval [CI], 1.58-2.41), while for CP-I and CP-III it increased 3.00-fold (90%CI, 2.35-3.82) and 2.84-fold (90%CI, 2.22-3.65), respectively. Concurrently, the CLrenal of CP-I decreased by 31% (90%CI, 23%-39%), and that of CP-III decreased by 70% (90%CI, 61%-77%). In conclusion, CP-I and CP-III in plasma display the potential to be applied as endogenous markers for the evaluation of OATP1B inhibition in clinical trials. While renal transporters contribute significantly to the CLrenal of CP-III, it would be better to investigate the impact of the CLrenal on plasma exposure of CP-III during clinical DDI assessments.

Keywords: OATP1B; coproporphyrins; drug-drug interaction; endogenous marker.

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