title: The influence of macrolide antibiotics on the uptake of organic anions and drugs mediated by OATP1B1 and OATP1B3.
abstract: Macrolides may cause severe drug interactions due to the inhibition of metabolizing enzymes. Transporter-mediated uptake of drugs into cells [e.g., by members of the human organic anion transporting polypeptide (OATP) family] is a determinant of drug disposition and a prerequisite for subsequent metabolism. However whether macrolides are also inhibitors of uptake transporters, thereby providing an additional mechanism of drug interactions, has not been systematically studied. The human OATP family members OATP1B1 and OATP1B3 mediate the uptake of endogenous substances and drugs such as antibiotics and HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) into hepatocytes. In this study we investigated the potential role of these uptake transporters on macrolide-induced drug interactions. By using sulfobromophthalein (BSP) and the HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor pravastatin as substrates, the effects of the macrolides azithromycin, clarithromycin, erythromycin, and roxithromycin and of the ketolide telithromycin on the OATP1B1- and OATP1B3-mediated uptake were analyzed. These experiments demonstrated that the OATP1B1- and OATP1B3-mediated uptake of BSP and pravastatin can be inhibited by increasing concentrations of all macrolides except azithromycin. The IC50 values for the inhibition of OATP1B3-mediated BSP uptake were 11 microM for telithromycin, 32 microM for clarithromycin, 34 microM for erythromycin, and 37 microM for roxithromycin. These IC50 values were lower than the IC50 values for inhibition of OATP1B1-mediated BSP uptake (96-217 microM). These macrolides also inhibited in a concentration-dependent manner the OATP1B1- and OATP1B3-mediated uptake of pravastatin. In summary, these results indicate that alterations of uptake transporter function by certain macrolides/ketolides have to be considered as a potential additional mechanism underlying drug-drug interactions.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: Annick
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Seithel
authors.forename: Sonja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Eberl
authors.forename: Katrin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Singer
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Auge
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Heinkele
authors.forename: Nadine B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Wolf
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dörje
authors.forename: Martin F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Fromm
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: König
mesh_terms: D000838:Anions / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001692:Biological Transport / Q000187:drug effects; D002460:Cell Line; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004347:Drug Interactions; D006801:Humans; D019161:Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D015151:Immunoblotting; D048628:Ketolides / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D018942:Macrolides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D027362:Organic Anion Transport Protein 1 / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D029362:Organic Anion Transporters, Sodium-Independent / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D017035:Pravastatin / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D000074542:Solute Carrier Organic Anion Transporter Family Member 1B3; D013448:Sulfobromophthalein / Q000378:metabolism; D053719:Tandem Mass Spectrometry; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014162:Transfection
chemical_list: D000838:Anions; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D019161:Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors; D048628:Ketolides; D018942:Macrolides; D027362:Organic Anion Transport Protein 1; D029362:Organic Anion Transporters, Sodium-Independent; D009930:Organic Chemicals; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations; C421209:SLCO1B3 protein, human; D000074542:Solute Carrier Organic Anion Transporter Family Member 1B3; C114338:organic anion transport protein 3; D013448:Sulfobromophthalein; C106791:telithromycin; D017035:Pravastatin