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Trial reportAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2004

Pharmacokinetics in animals and humans of a first-in-class peptide deformylase inhibitor.

Sandhya Ramanathan-Girish, Juliet McColm, John M Clements, Phil Taupin, Sue Barrowcliffe, John Hevizi, Sharon Safrin, Clive Moore, Gary Patou, Heinz Moser and 5 more

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Trial report in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
  2. Article
  3. Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance: Innovative Drugs in Antibacterial Research.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
    Review
  4. Article
  5. Journal of Cancer · 2020
    Article
  6. Article
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  8. Challenges of antibacterial discovery.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2011
    Review
  9. Structure of the Ni(II) complex of Escherichia coli peptide deformylase and suggestions on deformylase activities depending on different metal(II) centres.Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2010
    Article
  10. Article
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  12. Peptide deformylase inhibitors as potent antimycobacterial agents.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2006
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Sandhya Ramanathan-GirishGenesoft Pharmaceuticals, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA.
Juliet McColm
John M Clements
Phil Taupin
Sue Barrowcliffe
John Hevizi
Sharon Safrin
Clive Moore
Gary Patou
Heinz Moser
Alison Gadd
Ute Hoch
Vernon Jiang
Denene Lofland
Kirk W Johnson

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BB-83698, a potent and selective inhibitor of peptide deformylase, was the first compound of this novel antibacterial class to progress to clinical trials. Single- and/or multiple-dose studies with doses ranging from 10 to 50 mg of BB-83698/kg of body weight were done with mice, rats, and dogs. Intravenous pharmacokinetics were characterized by low to moderate clearances and moderate volumes of distribution for all species. In dogs, but not in rodents, central nervous system (CNS) effects were dose limiting for intravenously administered BB-83698 and were suspected to be related to a high maximum concentration of the agent in plasma (Cmax) rather than to total systemic exposure. Controlled infusion studies with dogs demonstrated that CNS effects could be avoided without compromising systemic exposure by reducing the Cmax. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, five-way-crossover, single-dose-escalation, phase I study to explore the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of intravenous BB-83698 at doses ranging from 10 to 475 mg was performed with healthy male volunteers. Systemic exposures were generally in linear relationships with administered doses in animals and humans. Pharmacokinetics were consistent, predictable, and exhibited good allometric scaling among all species (r2 >0.98). Moreover, BB-83698 dosing in humans proceeded to a predicted efficacious exposure (the area under the concentration-time curve/MIC ratio, up to 184) without any clinically significant adverse effects.

Indexed as

AdultAmidohydrolasesAnimalsArea Under CurveCentral Nervous System DiseasesCross-Over StudiesDogsDouble-Blind MethodEnzyme InhibitorsFemaleHumansHydroxamic AcidsInfusions, IntravenousMaleMiceMice, Inbred ICRAmidohydrolasesBB-83698Enzyme InhibitorsHydroxamic Acidspeptide deformylase

Identifiers

PMID15561864
PMCPMC529202
OpenAlexW2098266057

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