PMID- 36213535 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20221011 IS - 2211-3835 (Print) IS - 2211-3843 (Electronic) IS - 2211-3835 (Linking) VI - 12 IP - 10 DP - 2022 Oct TI - Site-directed deuteration of dronedarone preserves cytochrome P4502J2 activity and mitigates its cardiac adverse effects in canine arrhythmic hearts. PG - 3905-3923 LID - 10.1016/j.apsb.2022.03.008 [doi] AB - Cytochrome P4502J2 (CYP2J2) metabolizes arachidonic acid (AA) to cardioprotective epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs). Dronedarone, an antiarrhythmic drug prescribed for treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) induces cardiac adverse effects (AEs) with poorly understood mechanisms. We previously demonstrated that dronedarone inactivates CYP2J2 potently and irreversibly, disrupts AA-EET pathway leading to cardiac mitochondrial toxicity rescuable via EET enrichment. In this study, we investigated if mitigation of CYP2J2 inhibition prevents dronedarone-induced cardiac AEs. We first synthesized a deuterated analogue of dronedarone (termed poyendarone) and demonstrated that it neither inactivates CYP2J2, disrupts AA-EETs metabolism nor causes cardiac mitochondrial toxicity in vitro. Our patch-clamp experiments demonstrated that pharmacoelectrophysiology of dronedarone is unaffected by deuteration. Next, we show that dronedarone treatment or CYP2J2 knockdown in spontaneously beating cardiomyocytes indicative of depleted CYP2J2 activity exacerbates beat-to-beat (BTB) variability reflective of proarrhythmic phenotype. In contrast, poyendarone treatment yields significantly lower BTB variability compared to dronedarone in cardiomyocytes indicative of preserved CYP2J2 activity. Importantly, poyendarone and dronedarone display similar antiarrhythmic properties in the canine model of persistent AF, while poyendarone substantially reduces beat-to-beat variability of repolarization duration suggestive of diminished proarrhythmic risk. Our findings prove that deuteration of dronedarone prevents CYP2J2 inactivation and mitigates dronedarone-induced cardiac AEs. CI - (c) 2022 Chinese Pharmaceutical Association and Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. FAU - Karkhanis, Aneesh V AU - Karkhanis AV AD - Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore. FAU - Venkatesan, Gopalakrishnan AU - Venkatesan G AD - Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore. FAU - Kambayashi, Ryuichi AU - Kambayashi R AD - Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Toho University, Tokyo 143-8540, Japan. FAU - Leow, Jacqueline Wen Hui AU - Leow JWH AD - Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore. FAU - Han, Marcus Qingrui AU - Han MQ AD - Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore. FAU - Izumi-Nakaseko, Hiroko AU - Izumi-Nakaseko H AD - Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Toho University, Tokyo 143-8540, Japan. FAU - Goto, Ai AU - Goto A AD - Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Toho University, Tokyo 143-8540, Japan. FAU - Pang, Jeremy Kah Sheng AU - Pang JKS AD - Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore 138673, Singapore. FAU - Soh, Boon Seng AU - Soh BS AD - Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore 138673, Singapore. AD - Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117558, Singapore. FAU - Kojodjojo, Pipin AU - Kojodjojo P AD - Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119228, Singapore. FAU - Sugiyama, Atsushi AU - Sugiyama A AD - Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Toho University, Tokyo 143-8540, Japan. FAU - Chan, Eric Chun Yong AU - Chan ECY AD - Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220316 PL - Netherlands TA - Acta Pharm Sin B JT - Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B JID - 101600560 PMC - PMC9532722 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Arachidonic acid OT - Atrial fibrillation OT - CYP2J2 OT - Dronedarone OT - Drug-induced proarrhythmia OT - Epoxyeicosatrienoic acids OT - Mechanism-based inactivation EDAT- 2022/10/11 06:00 MHDA- 2022/10/11 06:01 PMCR- 2022/03/16 CRDT- 2022/10/10 04:33 PHST- 2021/11/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/01/13 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/02/21 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/10/10 04:33 [entrez] PHST- 2022/10/11 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/10/11 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2022/03/16 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S2211-3835(22)00107-1 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.apsb.2022.03.008 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Acta Pharm Sin B. 2022 Oct;12(10):3905-3923. doi: 10.1016/j.apsb.2022.03.008. Epub 2022 Mar 16.