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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, August 2006, p. 2686-2694, Vol. 50, No. 8
0066-4804/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.01637-05
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Model for Intracellular Lamivudine Metabolism in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells Ex Vivo and in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1-Infected Adolescents

Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089,¹ Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105,² Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105³

Received 23 December 2005/ Returned for modification 17 February 2006/ Accepted 19 May 2006

The pharmacologic variability of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors such as lamivudine (3TC) includes not only systemic pharmacokinetic variability but also interindividual differences in cellular transport and metabolism. A modeling strategy linking laboratory studies of intracellular 3TC disposition with clinical studies in adolescent patients is described. Data from ex vivo laboratory experiments using peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from uninfected human subjects were first used to determine a model and population parameter estimates for 3TC cellular metabolism. Clinical study data from human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected adolescents were then used in a Bayesian population analysis, together with the prior information from the ex vivo analysis, to develop a population model for 3TC systemic kinetics and cellular kinetics in PBMCs from patients during chronic therapy. The laboratory results demonstrate that the phosphorylation of 3TC is saturable under clinically relevant concentrations, that there is a rapid equilibrium between 3TC monophosphate and diphosphate and between 3TC diphosphate and triphosphate, and that 3TC triphosphate is recycled to 3TC monophosphate through a 3TC metabolite that remains to be definitively characterized. The resulting population model shows substantial interindividual variability in the cellular kinetics of 3TC with population coefficients of variation for model parameters ranging from 47 to 87%. This two-step ex vivo/clinical modeling approach using Bayesian population modeling of 3TC that links laboratory and clinical data has potential application for other drugs whose intracellular pharmacology is a major determinant of activity and/or toxicity.