ADMET and DMPK, Vol. 9 No. 3, 2021.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5599/admet.995
Prediction of hERG inhibition of drug discovery compounds using biomimetic HPLC measurements
Chrysanthos Stergiopoulos
orcid.org/0000-0001-6002-4870
; Laboratory of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens
Fotios Tsopelas
; Laboratory of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens
Klara Valko
; Bio-Mimetic Chromatography Ltd. Stevenage, Herts, United Kingdom
Abstract
The major causes of failure of drug discovery compounds in clinics are the lack of efficacy and toxicity. To reduce late-stage failures in the drug discovery process, it is essential to estimate early the probability of adverse effects and potential toxicity. Cardiotoxicity is one of the most often observed problems related to a compound's inhibition of the hERG channel responsible for the potassium cation flux. Biomimetic HPLC methods can be used for the early screening of a compound's lipophilicity, protein binding and phospholipid partition. Based on the published hERG pIC50 data of 90 marketed drugs and their measured biomimetic properties, a model has been developed to predict the hERG inhibition using the measured binding of compounds to alpha-1-acid-glycoprotein (AGP) and immobilised artificial membrane (IAM). A representative test set of 16 compounds was carefully selected. The training set, involving the remaining compounds, served to establish the linear model. The mechanistic model supports the hypothesis that compounds have to traverse the cell membrane and bind to the hERG ion channel to cause the inhibition. The AGP and the hERG ion channel show structural similarity, as both bind positively charged compounds with strong shape selectivity. In contrast, a good IAM partition is a prerequisite for cell membrane traversal. For reasons of comparison, a corresponding model was derived by replacing the measured biomimetic properties with calculated physicochemical properties. The model established with the measured biomimetic binding properties proved to be superior and can explain over 70% of the variance of the hERG pIC50 values.
Keywords
Cardiotoxicity; Proarrhythmia; QT Prolongation; Torsades de Pointes; hERG inhibition; IAM binding, AGP binding
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Publication date:
8.10.2021.
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