Absorption, metabolism and excretion of pictilisib, a potent pan-class I phosphatidylinositol-3-Kinase (PI3K) inhibitor, in rats, dogs, and humans

Abstract

1. The absorption, metabolism and excretion of pictilisib, a selective small molecule inhibitor of class 1 A phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K), was characterized following a single oral administration of [¹⁴C]pictilisib in rats, dogs and humans at the target doses of 30 mg/kg, 5 mg/kg and 60 mg, respectively.

2. Pictilisib was rapidly absorbed with T_max less than 2 h across species. In systemic circulation, pictilisib represented the predominant total radioactivity greater than 86.6% in all species.

3. Total pictilisib and related radioactivity was recovered from urine and faeces in rats, dogs, and human at 98%, 80% and 95%, respectively, with less than 2% excreted in urine and the rest excreted into faeces.

4. In rat and dog, more than 40% of drug-related radioactivity was excreted into the bile suggesting biliary excretion was the major route of excretion. Unchanged pictilisib was a minor component in rat and dog bile. The major metabolite in bile was O-glucuronide of oxidation on indazole moiety (M20, 21% of the dose) in rats and an oxidative piperazinyl ring-opened metabolite M7 (10.8% of the dose) in dogs.

5. Oxidative glutathione (GSH) conjugates (M18, M19) were novel metabolites detected in rat bile, suggesting the potential generation of reactive intermediates from pictilisib. The structure of M18 was further confirmed by NMR to be a N-hydroxylated and GSH conjugated metabolite on the moiety of the indazole ring.

Keywords:

• Pictilisib
• mass balance
• metabolite identification
• pharmacokinetics
• novel metabolite

Disclosure statement

The authors were employees of Genentech, Inc. or F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, or were employees of Covance, Inc., which conducted studies that were sponsored by Genentech, Inc., when this work was completed.