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Current Drug Metabolism

Author(s): Zhe Wang, Lili Jiang, Xiaoyu Wang, Hang Yin, Zhen Wang, Xin Lv and Yong Liu*

DOI: 10.2174/1389200224666221028140652

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Cabozantinib Carries the Risk of Drug-Drug Interactions via Inhibition of UDPglucuronosyltransferase (UGT) 1A9

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Abstract

Background: Cabozantinib is a multiple receptor tyrosine kinases inhibitor (TKI) approved to treat progressive, metastatic medullary thyroid cancer, advanced renal cell carcinoma, and hepatocellular carcinoma. Drugdrug interactions (DDIs) for cabozantinib have been identified involving the role of cytochromes P450. Although the previous study reported that cabozantinib showed a slight inhibition of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) 1A1 at the highest concentration tested, there are no reports on the potential for UGTs-mediated-DDIs. Hence, the current study aims to address this knowledge gap.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the inhibitory effect of cabozantinib on human UGTs and to quantitatively evaluate the DDI potential via UGT inhibition.

Methods: The inhibitory effects of cabozantinib on UGTs were determined by measuring the formation rates for 4- methylumbelliferone (4-MU) glucuronide and trifluoperazine N-glucuronide using recombinant human UGT isoforms in the absence or presence of cabozantinib. Inhibition kinetic studies were conducted to determine the type of inhibition of cabozantinib on UGTs and the corresponding inhibition constant (Ki) value. In vitro-in vivo extrapolation (IVIVE) was further employed to predict the potential risk of DDI in vivo.

Results: Cabozantinib displayed potent inhibition of UGT1A1, 1A3, 1A4, 1A6, 1A7, 1A8, 1A9, 1A10, 2B7, and 2B15. Cabozantinib exhibited noncompetitive inhibition towards UGT1A1 and 1A3 and inhibition towards UGT1A7 and 1A9. The Ki,u values (mean ± standard deviation) were calculated to be 2.15±0.11 μM, 0.83±0.05 μM, 0.75±0.04 μM and 0.18 ± 0.10 μM for UGT1A1, 1A3, 1A7 and 1A9, respectively. Co-administration of cabozantinib at the clinically approved dose of 60 mg/day or 140 mg/day may result in approximately a 26% to 60% increase in the systemic exposure of drugs predominantly cleared by UGT1A9, implying a high risk of DDIs.

Conclusion: Cabozantinib has the potential to cause DDIs via the inhibition of UGT1A9; therefore, additional attention should be paid to the safety of the combined use of cabozantinib and drugs metabolized by UGT1A9.

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