Journal
JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
Volume 100, Issue 3, Pages 1184-1195Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jps.22332
Keywords
transporters; prodrugs; gabapentin; apical sodium-dependent bile acid transporter; bile acid; active transport; bioavailability; permeability; stability
Funding
- National Institutes of Health [DK67530]
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Gabapentin is a zwitterionic drug that exhibits low and variable oral absorption at therapeutic doses. The human apical sodium-dependent bile acid transporter (hASBT; SLC10A2) is a potential prodrug target to increase oral drug absorption. The objective was to evaluate several bile acid conjugates of gabapentin as potential prodrugs that target hASBT. Five analogues were synthesized and varied in ionic nature and the presence or absence of glutamic acid linker between the bile acid and drug. Analogues were evaluated for their inhibition and uptake properties using stably transfected hASBT-MDCK cells. The two monoanionic conjugates were potent hASBT substrates, with high affinity (K-m of 16.3 and 5.99 mu M) and high capacity (V-max of 0.656 and 0.842 pmol/cm(2)/s). The dianionic conjugate inhibited hASBT with moderate potency but was not a substrate. The two monoanionic conjugates were catalytically degraded in Caco-2 homogenate and rat liver microsomes. Each yielded gabapentin from prodrug. These two conjugates are novel prodrugs of gabapentin and illustrate prodrugs that can be designed to target hASBT. (C) 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc. and the American Pharmacists Association J Pharm Sci 100:1184-1195, 2011
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