代谢
5-硝基-2-噻唑基-N'-羧甲基脲(NTCU)被确认为抗血吸虫病药物尼利达唑(1-(5-硝基-2-噻唑基)-2-咪唑烷酮)的尿液代谢物。当DBA/2J小鼠被处理(14)C尼利达唑时,24小时尿液样本中总放射活性的12-14%的代谢物可以通过HPLC解析。随后从接受尼利达唑治疗的患者的混合尿液中分离出该化合物。通过质谱鉴定为NTCU,并通过化学合成确认了推测的结构。在所有已知的尼利达唑代谢物中,NTCU是独一无二的,因为它缺乏完整的咪唑烷酮环。其结构允许发生酮烯醇互变异构,其中烯醇形式通过与硝基噻唑环共轭而稳定,这在吸收光谱中以pH依赖性的80纳米红移为证据。/它被/假设NTCU是通过5-羟基尼利达唑的环状醛互变异构体的氧化产生的,这是两种近氧化尼利达唑代谢物之一。环状醛互变异构体的间接证据包括5-羟基尼利达唑显示出与NTCU相同的pH依赖性光谱偏移,并且在388纳米处有一个等吸收点。当发现5-羟基尼利达唑在NAD(+)-依赖性醛脱氢酶(EC 1.2.1.3)的催化下形成NTCU时,提出的先驱-产物关系得到了确认。该活性与从小鼠肝脏细胞质中纯化出的苯甲醛脱氢酶活性一起。此外,苯甲醛是5-羟基尼利达唑脱氢酶活性的竞争性抑制剂。这些结果表明,5-羟基尼利达唑不是尼利达唑代谢的最终产物。因为尼利达唑向其4-和5-羟基衍生物的生物转化与药物的致癌性和中枢神经系统毒性有关,NTCU的形成似乎代表了一种哺乳动物的去毒途径。
N-(5-nitro-2-thiazolyl)-N'-carboxymethylurea (NTCU) has been identified as a urinary metabolite of the antischistosomal drug niridazole (1-(5-nitro-2-thiazolyl)-2-imidazolidinone). When DBA/2J mice were treated with (14)C niridazole, a metabolite comprising 12-14% of the total radioactivity in 24-hr urine samples was resolved by HPLC. The compound was subsequently isolated from pooled urine of niridazole-treated patients. It was identified as NTCU by mass spectrometry, and the deduced structure was confirmed by chemical synthesis. NTCU is unique among known niridazole metabolites, because it lacks an intact imidazolidinone ring. Its structure allows for a ketoenol tautomerism in which the enolate is stabilized by conjugation with the nitrothiazole ring, as evidenced by a pH-dependent 80-nm red shift in the absorption spectrum. /It was/ hypothesized that NTCU arises via oxidation of an acyclic aldehyde tautomer of 5-hydroxyniridazole, one of two proximate oxidative niridazole metabolites. Indirect evidence for the aldehyde tautomer included the fact that 5-hydroxyniridazole displayed the same pH-dependent spectral shift as NTCU with a single isobestic point at 388 nm. The proposed precursor-product relationship was confirmed when /it was/ found that NTCU formation from 5-hydroxyniridazole was catalyzed by NAD(+)-dependent aldehyde dehydrogenase (EC 1.2.1.3). The activity copurified with benzaldehyde dehydrogenase activity from mouse liver cytosol. Furthermore, benzaldehyde was a competitive inhibitor of 5-hydroxyniridazole dehydrogenase activity. These results demonstrate that 5-hydroxyniridazole is not an end product of niridazole metabolism. Because biotransformation of niridazole to its 4- and 5-hydroxy derivatives has been implicated in the drug's carcinogenicity and central nervous system toxicity, NTCU formation appears to represent a detoxication pathway in mammals.
来源:Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)