CYP and UGT Reaction Phenotyping Assay

Creative Bioarray helps provide CYP and UGT reaction phenotyping assay for CYP1A2, CYP2B6, CYP2C8, CYP3A4, UGT1A1, UGT2B7, or other isoforms on clients' requests. By identifying the enzymes responsible for metabolism, it points out the direction for identifying potential drug-drug interactions.

Reaction Phenotyping Assay

• Why Reaction Phenotyping Assay?
• Response phenotyping is the process of identifying enzymes responsible for drug metabolism. It allows to understand the role of metabolic enzymes in drug clearance by quantifying the contribution of major enzymes to the total drug clearance rate.
• Subtle changes in the enzyme activity will alter the rate of clearance and lead to negative results, that is, higher or lower plasma concentrations, which may result in unexpected toxicity or loss of efficacy. If multiple drugs interact with a single CYP or UGT form, then the possibility of a potentially harmful drug-drug interaction is increased.
• Reaction phenotyping studies identify which enzymes are catalyzing the main elimination pathways.

Brief Protocol

Reaction phenotyping assays, which are increasingly important in drug discovery efforts, are designed to identify specific enzymes involved in the metabolism of drug candidates. The basis of CYP and UGT reaction phenotyping is to understand enzyme kinetics of a specific enzyme metabolic pathway and determine its contribution to total metabolic clearance. A variety of assays can be utilized including those using recombinant cDNA-expressed human CYPs and UGTs.

• The test compound is incubated with the expressed single CYP450 enzyme or uridine diphosphate glucuronyl transferase at 37°C.
• For the cytochrome P450 response, the cofactor NADPH is used to initiate the response. The solvent terminates the reaction.
• After centrifugation, the supernatant was analyzed by LC-MS/MS. Monitor the disappearance of the test compound over 45 minutes.
• The test compound was also incubated in the presence of a cDNA expression control preparation (without enzyme). In the presence of the expressed enzyme, the compound disappearance curve is corrected to any disappearance observed in the presence of the control formulation. This ensures that only the metabolism of the allogeneic body is determined.

Figure 1. Flowchart for typical reaction phenotyping evaluation of a lead drug candidate.

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Reference

1. Chen Y, Fretland AJ, et al. Utility of intersystem extrapolation factors in early reaction phenotyping and the quantitative extrapolation of human liver microsomal intrinsic clearance using recombinant cytochromes P450. Drug Metab Dispos. 2011 Mar; 39 (3):373-82.

Explore Other Options

• In Vitro Metabolism
• In Vitro Permeability and Transporters
• Drug-Drug Interaction
• High-throughput ADME Screening
• Physicochemical Characterization Assays

• CYP450 Time-Dependent Inhibition (TDI) Assay
• Cytochrome P450 Induction Assay
• Cytochrome P450 Inhibition Assay
• UGT Induction
• UGT Inhibition

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