Safety Assessment of Acyl Glucuronides-A Simplified Paradigm.

Drug Metab Dispos

4 The Maltings, Walmer, Kent, United Kingdom (D.A.S.); Preclinical Safety Consulting Ltd., Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom (T.H.); and Department of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (T.A.B.)

Published: June 2018

While simple - (ether-linked) and -glucuronide drug conjugates generally are unreactive and considered benign from a safety perspective, the acyl glucuronides that derive from metabolism of carboxylic acid-containing xenobiotics can exhibit a degree of chemical reactivity that is dependent upon their molecular structure. As a result, concerns have arisen over the safety of acyl glucuronides as a class, several members of which have been implicated in the toxicity of their respective parent drugs. However, direct evidence in support of these claims remains sparse, and due to frequently encountered species differences in the systemic exposure to acyl glucuronides (both of the parent drug and oxidized derivatives thereof), coupled with their instability in aqueous media and potential to undergo chemical rearrangement (acyl migration), qualification of these conjugates by traditional safety assessment methods can be very challenging. In this Commentary, we discuss alternative (non-acyl glucuronide) mechanisms by which carboxylic acids may cause serious adverse reactions, and propose a novel, practical approach to compare systemic exposure to acyl glucuronide metabolites in humans to that in animal species used in preclinical safety assessment based on relative estimates of the total body burden of these circulating conjugates.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1124/dmd.118.080515DOI Listing

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