TY  - JOUR
A1  - Scheer, Nico
A1  - Balimane, Praveen
A1  - Hayward, Michael D.
A1  - Buechel, Sandra
A1  - Kauselmann, Gunther
A1  - Wolf, C. Roland
T1  - Generation and Characterization of a Novel Multidrug Resistance Protein 2 Humanized Mouse Line
JF  - Drug Metabolism and Disposition
N2  - The multidrug resistance protein (MRP) 2 is predominantly expressed in liver, intestine, and kidney, where it plays an important role in the excretion of a range of drugs and their metabolites or endogenous compounds into bile, feces, and urine. Mrp knockout [Mrp2(−/−)] mice have been used recently to study the role of MRP2 in drug disposition. Here, we describe the first generation and initial characterization of a mouse line humanized for MRP2 (huMRP2), which is nulled for the mouse Mrp2 gene and expresses the human transporter in the organs and cell types where MRP2 is normally expressed. Analysis of the mRNA expression for selected cytochrome P450 and transporter genes revealed no major changes in huMRP2 mice compared with wild-type controls. We show that human MRP2 is able to compensate functionally for the loss of the mouse transporter as demonstrated by comparable bilirubin levels in the humanized mice and wild-type controls, in contrast to the hyperbilirubinemia phenotype that is observed in MRP2(−/−) mice. The huMRP2 mouse provides a model to study the role of the human transporter in drug disposition and in assessing the in vivo consequences of inhibiting this transporter by compounds interacting with human MRP2.
Y1  - 2012
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1124/dmd.112.047605
SN  - 1521-0111
VL  - 40
IS  - 11
SP  - 2212
EP  - 2218
PB  - ASPET
CY  - Bethesda, Md.
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Scheer, Nico
A1  - Kapelyukh, Yury
A1  - Rode, Anja
A1  - Buechel, Sandra
A1  - Wolf, C. Roland
T1  - Generation and characterization of novel cytochrome P450 Cyp2c gene cluster knockout and CYP2C9 humanized mouse lines
JF  - Molecular Pharmacology
N2  - Compared with rodents and many other animal species, the human cytochrome P450 (P450) Cyp2c gene cluster varies significantly in the multiplicity of functional genes and in the substrate specificity of its enzymes. As a consequence, the use of wild-type animal models to predict the role of human CYP2C enzymes in drug metabolism and drug-drug interactions is limited. Within the human CYP2C cluster CYP2C9 is of particular importance, because it is one of the most abundant P450 enzymes in human liver, and it is involved in the metabolism of a wide variety of important drugs and environmental chemicals. To investigate the in vivo functions of cytochrome P450 Cyp2c genes and to establish a model for studying the functions of CYP2C9 in vivo, we have generated a mouse model with a deletion of the murine Cyp2c gene cluster and a corresponding humanized model expressing CYP2C9 specifically in the liver. Despite the high number of functional genes in the mouse Cyp2c cluster and the reported roles of some of these proteins in different biological processes, mice deleted for Cyp2c genes were viable and fertile but showed certain phenotypic alterations in the liver. The expression of CYP2C9 in the liver also resulted in viable animals active in the metabolism and disposition of a number of CYP2C9 substrates. These mouse lines provide a powerful tool for studying the role of Cyp2c genes and of CYP2C9 in particular in drug disposition and as a factor in drug-drug interaction.
Y1  - 2012
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1124/mol.112.080036
SN  - 1521-0111
VL  - 82
IS  - 6
SP  - 1022
EP  - 1029
PB  - ASPET
CY  - Bethesda, Md.
ER  -