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Xenobiotica
the fate of foreign compounds in biological systems
Volume 52, 2022 - Issue 6
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Xenobiotic transporters

Interactions of organophosphorus pesticides with ATP-binding cassette (ABC) drug transporters

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Pages 644-652 | Received 27 Jul 2022, Accepted 21 Sep 2022, Published online: 05 Oct 2022
 

Abstract

  1. Although pharmaceutical companies have to study drug-transporter interaction, environmental contaminant interactions with these transporters are not well characterised. In this study, we demonstrated using in vitro transfected cell line that some organophosphorus pesticides are able to interact with drug efflux transporters like P-glycoprotein, BCRP and MRPs.

  2. According to our results, dibrom was found to inhibit only Hoechst binding site of P-gp with an IC50 closed to 77 µM, phosmet inhibited BCRP efflux with an IC50 of 42 µM and only profenofos was able to inhibit BCRP, MRPs and P-gp at two binding sites. As profenofos appeared to be a potent ABC transporter inhibitor, we studied its potential substrate property towards P-gp.

  3. Using a docking approach, we developed an in silico tool to study pesticide properties to be a probe or inhibitor of P-gp transporter. From both in silico and in vitro results, profenofos was not considered as a P-gp substrate.

  4. Combining both in vitro and docking methods appears to be an attractive approach to select pesticides that would not pass into the blood systemic circulation.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank Technologie Servier for the kind gift of the LC-MS/MS system.

Authors contribution

L. C.: experimental design and data generation, redaction (co-first author).

D. M. L.: docking model conception, redaction (co-first author).

O. D.: docking model design, redaction.

O. F.: experimental design, redaction.

A. B.: experimental design, redaction.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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