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Drug Metabolism Letters

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ISSN (Print): 1872-3128
ISSN (Online): 1874-0758

A Systematic Evaluation of Solubility Enhancing Excipients to Enable the Generation of Permeability Data for Poorly Soluble Compounds in Caco-2 Model

Author(s): Devang Shah, Sundeep Paruchury, Muralikrishna Matta, Gajendra Chowan, Murali Subramanian, Ajay Saxena, Matthew G. Soars, John Herbst, Roy Haskell, Punit Marathe and Sandhya Mandlekar

Volume 8, Issue 2, 2014

Page: [109 - 118] Pages: 10

DOI: 10.2174/1872312808666141127113055

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Abstract

The study presented here identified and utilized a panel of solubility enhancing excipients to enable the generation of flux data in the Human colon carcinoma (Caco-2) system for compounds with poor solubility. Solubility enhancing excipients Dimethyl acetamide (DMA) 1 % v/v, polyethylene glycol (PEG) 400 1% v/v, povidone 1% w/v, poloxamer 188 2.5% w/v and bovine serum albumin (BSA) 4% w/v did not compromise Caco-2 monolayer integrity as assessed by trans-epithelial resistance measurement (TEER) and Lucifer yellow (LY) permeation. Further, these excipients did not affect P-glycoprotein (P-gp) mediated bidirectional transport of digoxin, permeabilities of high (propranolol) or low permeability (atenolol) compounds, and were found to be inert to Breast cancer resistant protein (BCRP) mediated transport of cladribine. This approach was validated further using poorly soluble tool compounds, atazanavir (poloxamer 188 2.5% w/v) and cyclosporine A (BSA 4% w/v) and also applied to new chemical entity (NCE) BMS-A in BSA 4% w/v, for which Caco-2 data could not be generated using the traditional methodology due to poor solubility (<1 µM) in conventional Hanks balanced salt solution (HBSS). Poloxamer 188 2.5% w/v increased solubility of atazanavir by >8 fold whereas BSA 4% w/v increased the solubility of cyclosporine A and BMS-A by >2-4 fold thereby enabling permeability as well as efflux liability estimation in the Caco-2 model with reasonable recovery values. To conclude, addition of excipients such as poloxamer 188 2.5% w/v and BSA 4% w/v to HBSS leads to a significant improvement in the solubility of the poorly soluble compounds resulting in enhanced recoveries without modulating transporter-mediated efflux, expanding the applicability of Caco-2 assays to poorly soluble compounds.

Keywords: BCRP, Caco-2, co-solvents, excipients, permeability, P-gp, poor recovery, poor solubility, transporters.


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