The impacts of natural product miltirone and the CYP2D6 pharmacogenetic phenotype on fluoxetine metabolism

Xiaodan Zhang; Qingqing Li; Xinwu Ye; Qing Chen; Chen Chen; Guoxin Hu; Likang Zhang; Lianguo Chen

doi:10.3389/fphar.2024.1373048

The impacts of natural product miltirone and the CYP2D6 pharmacogenetic phenotype on fluoxetine metabolism

Front Pharmacol. 2024 Apr 29:15:1373048. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2024.1373048. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Xiaodan Zhang^{1

2}, Qingqing Li^{2

3}, Xinwu Ye¹, Qing Chen², Chen Chen², Guoxin Hu³, Likang Zhang³, Lianguo Chen²

Affiliations

¹ Wenzhou Seventh People's Hospital, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
² Department of Clinical Pharmacy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
³ Renji College, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.

Abstract

Introduction: To study the effects of drug-induced CYP2D6 activity inhibition and genetic polymorphisms on fluoxetine metabolism, rat liver microsomes (RLMs) and SD rats were used to investigate the potential drug‒drug interactions (DDIs), and CYP2D6 http://muchong.com/t-10728934-1 recombinant baculosomes were prepared and subjected to catalytic reactivity studies. Methods and Results: All analytes were detected by ultraperformance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC‒MS/MS). After screening for 27 targeted natural products, miltirone was identified as having obvious inhibitory effect on fluoxetine metabolism in RLMs. In vivo, the concentration of fluoxetine in rat blood increased markedly after miltirone administration. The molecular docking results showed that miltirone bound more strongly to CYP2D6 than fluoxetine, and PHE120 may be the key residue leading to the inhibition of CYP2D6-mediated fluoxetine N-demethylation by miltirone. In terms of the genetic polymorphism of CYP2D6 on fluoxetine metabolism, the intrinsic clearance values of most variants were significantly altered. Among these variants, CYP2D6*92 and CYP2D6*96/Q424X were found to be catalytically inactive for fluoxetine metabolism, five variants (CYP2D6*89/L142S, *97/F457L, *R497, *V342M and *R344Q) exhibited markedly increased clearance values (>125.07%) and seven variants (CYP2D6*2, *10, *87/A5V, *93/T249P, *E215K, *R25Q and *R440C) exhibited significantly decreased clearance values (from 6.62% to 66.79%) compared to those of the wild-type. Conclusion: Our results suggest that more attention should be given to subjects in the clinic who take fluoxetine and also carry one of these infrequent CYP2D6 alleles or are coadministered drugs containing miltirone.

Keywords: CYP2D6 variants; drug‒drug interaction; fluoxetine; miltirone; norfluoxetine.

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by the Wenzhou City Public Welfare project from LC (Y20220903) and the Medical and Health Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Provincial Health Commission (2022RC072).