Szultka Malgorzata, Krzeminski Rafal, Jackowski Marek, Buszewski Boguslaw
Department of Environmental Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Gagarin 7 Street, 87-100 Toruń, Poland.
Department of Surgery, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, St. Joseph Street 53-59, 85-067 Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Chromatographia. 2014;77(15):1027-1035. doi: 10.1007/s10337-014-2648-2. Epub 2014 Mar 22.
Amoxicillin (AMOX) metabolism in human liver microsomes was studied in vitro using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC/MS). Amoxicillin was incubated with human liver microsomes along with NADPH, and the reaction mixture was analyzed by LC/MS to obtain the specific metabolic profile of the studied antibiotic drug. Positive electrospray ionization was employed as the ionization source. An ACE C18-column (4.6 mm × 150 mm, 3 μm) was implemented with acetonitrile and water (+0.1 % formic acid) in isocratic mode as the mobile phase at the flow 0.4 mL min. The chemical structures of metabolites were proposed on the basis of the accurate mass measurement of the protonated molecule as well as their main product. Six phase I and one phase II metabolites were detected and structurally described. The metabolism of AMOX occurred via oxidation, hydroxylation and oxidative deamination, as well as through combination of these reactions. Compound M7, with glucuronic acid was also observed as phase II metabolite. Neither sulfate nor glutathione conjugates were detected. This study presents novel information about the chemical structure of the potential AMOX metabolites and provides vital data for further pharmacokinetic and in vivo metabolism studies.
采用液相色谱 - 质谱联用(LC/MS)技术在体外研究了阿莫西林(AMOX)在人肝微粒体中的代谢情况。将阿莫西林与人肝微粒体以及NADPH一起孵育,然后通过LC/MS对反应混合物进行分析,以获得所研究抗生素药物的特定代谢谱。采用正电喷雾电离作为电离源。使用ACE C18柱(4.6 mm×150 mm,3μm),以乙腈和水(+0.1%甲酸)在等度模式下作为流动相,流速为0.4 mL/min。根据质子化分子及其主要产物的精确质量测量结果推测了代谢物的化学结构。检测并描述了六种I相和一种II相代谢物的结构。AMOX的代谢通过氧化、羟基化和氧化脱氨作用,以及这些反应的组合进行。还观察到带有葡萄糖醛酸的化合物M7作为II相代谢物。未检测到硫酸盐或谷胱甘肽缀合物。本研究提供了有关潜在AMOX代谢物化学结构的新信息,并为进一步的药代动力学和体内代谢研究提供了重要数据。