New potent and selective cytochrome P450 2B6 (CYP2B6) inhibitors based on three‐dimensional quantitative structure‐activity relationship (3D‐QSAR) analysis

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Background and purpose: The cytochrome P450 2B6 (CYP2B6) enzyme metabolises a number of clinically important drugs. Drug‐drug interactions resulting from inhibition or induction of CYP2B6 activity may cause serious adverse effects. The aims of this study were to construct a three‐dimensional structure‐activity relationship (3D‐QSAR) model of the CYP2B6 protein and to identify novel potent and selective inhibitors of CYP2B6 forin vitroresearch purposes.Experimental approach: The inhibition potencies (IC50values) of structurally diverse chemicals were determined with recombinant human CYP2B6 enzyme. Two successive models were constructed using Comparative Molecular Field Analysis (CoMFA).Key results: Three compounds proved to be very potent and selective competitive inhibitors of CYP2B6in vitro(IC50μM): 4‐(4‐chlorobenzyl)pyridine (CBP), 4‐(4‐nitrobenzyl)pyridine (NBP), and 4‐benzylpyridine (BP). A complete inhibition of CYP2B6 activity was achieved with 0.1μM CBP, whereas other CYP‐related activities were not affected. Forty‐one compounds were selected for further testing and construction of the final CoMFA model. The created CoMFA model was of high quality and predicted accurately the inhibition potency of a test set (n=7) of structurally diverse compounds.Conclusions and implications: Two CoMFA models were created which revealed the key molecular characteristics of inhibitors of the CYP2B6 enzyme. The final model accurately predicted the inhibitory potencies of several structurally unrelated compounds. CBP, BP and NBP were identified as novel potent and selective inhibitors of CYP2B6 and CBP especially is a suitable inhibitor forin vitroscreening studies.British Journal of Pharmacology(2007)150,932–942. doi:10.1038/sj.bjp.0707173

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