Journal
JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
Volume 110, Issue 1, Pages 412-421Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.xphs.2020.09.013
Keywords
Pregnancy; Cytochrome P450; Hepatic metabolism; Estradiol; Progesterone; Nifedipine; Hypertension; Targeted proteomics; Exosomes
Funding
- National Institutes of Health Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH/NICHD) [R01 HD098742]
- Eshelman Institute of Innovation (EII), Chapel Hill, North Carolina [RX03512212]
- American Heart Association (AHA) [18POST33960403]
- National Institutes of Health National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH/NIGMS) [R35 GM122576]
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Pregnancy-related hormones have been shown to significantly increase CYP3A4 protein concentrations and nifedipine metabolism, as well as alter the expression of other key CYP proteins in a concentration-dependent manner. There is a positive correlation between CYP3A4 mRNA levels in hepatocyte-derived exosomes and CYP3A4 protein levels and dehydronifedipine formation. These findings offer mechanistic insight into the changes in nifedipine metabolism observed in pregnant women.
Pregnancy-related hormones (PRH) have emerged as key regulators of hepatic cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzyme expression and function. The impact of PRH on protein levels of CYP3A4 and other key CYP enzymes, and the metabolism of nifedipine (a CYP3A4 substrate commonly prescribed during pregnancy), was evaluated in primary human hepatocytes. Sandwich-cultured human hepatocytes (SCHH) from female donors were exposed to PRH (estradiol, estriol, estetrol, progesterone, and cortisol), individually or in combination as a cocktail. Absolute protein concentrations of twelve CYP isoforms in SCHH membrane fractions were quantified by nanoLC-MS/MS, and metabolism of nifedipine to dehydronifedipine in SCHH was evaluated. PRH significantly increased CYP3A4 protein concentrations and nifedipine metabolism to dehydronifedipine in a concentration-dependent manner. CYP3A4 mRNA levels in hepatocyte-derived exosomes positively correlated with CYP3A4 protein levels and dehydronifedipine formation in SCHH. PRH also increased CYP2B6, CYP2C8 and CYP2A6 levels. Our findings demonstrate that PRH increase nifedipine metabolism in SCHH by inducing CYP3A4 expression and alter expression of other key CYP proteins in an isoform-specific manner, and suggest that hepatocyte-derived exosomes warrant further investigation as biomarkers of hepatic CYP3A4 metabolism. Together, these results offer mechanistic insight into the increases in nifedipine metabolism and clearance observed in pregnant women. (C) 2020 American Pharmacists Association (R). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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