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Inhibitory effects of flavonoids on P-glycoprotein in vitro and in vivo: Food/herb-drug interactions and structure-activity relationships

  • Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2019 Apr 15;369:49-59. doi: 10.1016/j.taap.2019.02.010.
Jie Bai 1 Shengyu Zhao 2 Xiaoqing Fan 3 Yonghui Chen 4 Xiaowen Zou 5 Minwan Hu 6 Baolian Wang 7 Jing Jin 8 Xiaojian Wang 9 Jinping Hu 10 Dan Zhang 11 Yan Li 12
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Affiliations

  • 1 State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Department of Drug Metabolism, Beijing Key Laboratory of Non-Clinical Drug Metabolism and PK/PD study, Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Drug Ability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China. Electronic address: baijie@imm.ac.cn.
  • 2 State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Department of Drug Metabolism, Beijing Key Laboratory of Non-Clinical Drug Metabolism and PK/PD study, Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Drug Ability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China. Electronic address: zhaoshengyu@imm.ac.cn.
  • 3 State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Department of Drug Metabolism, Beijing Key Laboratory of Non-Clinical Drug Metabolism and PK/PD study, Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Drug Ability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China. Electronic address: fanxiaoqing@imm.ac.cn.
  • 4 State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Department of Drug Metabolism, Beijing Key Laboratory of Non-Clinical Drug Metabolism and PK/PD study, Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Drug Ability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China. Electronic address: chenyonghui@imm.ac.cn.
  • 5 State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Department of Drug Metabolism, Beijing Key Laboratory of Non-Clinical Drug Metabolism and PK/PD study, Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Drug Ability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China. Electronic address: zouxiaowen@imm.ac.cn.
  • 6 State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Department of Drug Metabolism, Beijing Key Laboratory of Non-Clinical Drug Metabolism and PK/PD study, Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Drug Ability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China. Electronic address: huminwan@imm.ac.cn.
  • 7 State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Department of Drug Metabolism, Beijing Key Laboratory of Non-Clinical Drug Metabolism and PK/PD study, Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Drug Ability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China. Electronic address: wangbaolian@imm.ac.cn.
  • 8 State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Department of Drug Metabolism, Beijing Key Laboratory of Non-Clinical Drug Metabolism and PK/PD study, Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Drug Ability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China. Electronic address: rebeccagold@imm.ac.cn.
  • 9 State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Department of Drug Metabolism, Beijing Key Laboratory of Non-Clinical Drug Metabolism and PK/PD study, Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Drug Ability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China. Electronic address: wangxiaojian@imm.ac.cn.
  • 10 State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Department of Drug Metabolism, Beijing Key Laboratory of Non-Clinical Drug Metabolism and PK/PD study, Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Drug Ability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China. Electronic address: hujp@imm.ac.cn.
  • 11 State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Department of Drug Metabolism, Beijing Key Laboratory of Non-Clinical Drug Metabolism and PK/PD study, Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Drug Ability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China. Electronic address: danzhang@imm.ac.cn.
  • 12 State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Department of Drug Metabolism, Beijing Key Laboratory of Non-Clinical Drug Metabolism and PK/PD study, Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Drug Ability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China. Electronic address: yanli@imm.ac.cn.
Abstract

Flavonoids are a class of polyphenol antioxygen, despite various known biological activities and therapeutic potential, scattered but not much is known about their interactions with drug transporters. P-glycoprotein (P-gp) as a cellular defense mechanism by effluxing its substrates has been widely investigated. The aim of this study was to investigate the inhibitory effects of 75 Flavonoids on P-gp in vitro and in vivo and to illuminate the structure-activity relationships of Flavonoids with P-gp. Five Flavonoids, including tangeretin, sinensetin, isosinensetin, sciadopitysin and oroxylin A exhibited significant inhibition on P-gp in MDR1-MDCKIIcells, which reduced the P-gp-mediated efflux of paraquat and taxol and consequently increased their cell toxicity. In addition, co-administration of digoxin with five Flavonoids increased the AUC0-t of digoxin in different extents in rats, from 19.84% to 81.51%. Molecular docking assays elucidated the inhibitory effect of Flavonoids might be related to Pi interactions, but not hydrogen bonds. The pharmacophore model suggested the hydrophobic groups in B benzene ring may play a vital role in the potency of Flavonoids inhibition on P-gp. Taken together, our findings would provide the basis for a reliable assessment of the potential risks of flavonoid-containing food/herb-drug interactions in humans.

Keywords

Flavonoids; Inhibition; P-glycoprotein; Structure–activity relationships.

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