Ticlopidine inhibition of phenytoin metabolism mediated by potent inhibition of CYP2C19.

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Donahue SR, Flockhart DA, Abernethy DR, Ko JW

Ticlopidine inhibition of phenytoin metabolism mediated by potent inhibition of CYP2C19.

Clin Pharmacol Ther. 1997 Nov;62(5):572-7. doi: 10.1016/S0009-9236(97)90054-0.

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Abstract

A patient who had taken a stable dose of phenytoin for 2 years had a coronary stent placed for unstable angina and ticlopidine was added to his therapeutic regimen. Twenty-five days later, he was hospitalized with acute symptomatic phenytoin toxicity and a serum concentration of 46.5 micrograms/ml. Determination of metabolic genotype revealed that the patient had a wild-type genotype for CYP2C9, CYP2C19, and CYP2D6. Using human liver microsomes, we showed that ticlopidine is a potent inhibitor of cytochrome P450 2C19, with an estimated inhibition constant (Ki) of 3.7 +/- 0.2 mumol/L. The influence of ticlopidine on CYP2C9, the other cytochrome P450 isoform that metabolizes phenytoin, is relatively weak, with a calculated Ki of 38.8 +/- 27 mumol/L. These data suggest that, in this patient, phenytoin toxicity was caused by inhibition of CYP2C19 by ticlopidine, and the data emphasize the importance of CYP2C19 in the metabolism of phenytoin.

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Drug Enzymes
DrugEnzymeKindOrganismPharmacological ActionActions
TiclopidineCytochrome P450 2C19ProteinHumans
Unknown
Substrate
Inhibitor
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TiclopidineCytochrome P450 2C9ProteinHumans
Unknown
Inhibitor
Details
Drug Interactions
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