Dolutegravir inhibits HIV integrase by binding to the active region of integrase and blocking the chain transfer step during integration of retroviral deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which is necessary for the ECHI replication cycle. When carrying out the biochemical analysis of chain transfer using the purified integrals of HIV-1 and the pre-treated DNA substrate, IC50 (concentration inhibiting replication by 50%) of 2.7 nM and 12.6 nM. In vitro dolutegravir dissociates slowly from the active center of the wild-type DNA integrase complex (T1/2 - 71 hours).
Pharmacodynamic effects
In a randomized study to determine the optimal dose for HIV-1 infected patients who received monotherapy with dolutegravir (ING11 1521), a rapid and dose-dependent antiviral effect was noted, with an average decrease in HIV-1 RNA for 11 days compared to the baseline level of 1.5, 2,0 and 2.5 log10 for 2 mg, 10 mg and 50 mg of dolutegravir for once-daily administration, respectively. This antiviral response was maintained for 3-4 days after the last dose was taken in the group of patients taking 50 mg of dolutegravir.
Antiviral activity in cell culture
In peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) infected with a strain BaL HIV-1 or strain NL432 HIV-1, for dolutegravir were obtained IFROM50 0.51 nM and 0.53 nM, respectively. In MT-4 cells infected with the strain IIIIn HIV-1 and incubated with doltegravir for 4 or 5 days, IFROM50 0.71 and 2,1 NM.
In the analysis of the sensitivity of the viral integrase using the coding region of integrase from 13 clinically different isolatessubtype B, dolutegravir demonstrated antiviral activity similar to that of laboratory strains, with an average IC50 0.52 nM. In the analysis of the PBMC panel, consisting of 24 clinical isolates of HIV-1 [group M (subtypes A, B, C, D, B, F and G) and group O], as well as 3 clinical isolates of HIV-2, the geometric mean IC50 was 0.20 nM, and the values IFROM50 ranged from 0.02 to 2.14 nM for HIV-1, while for HIV-2 isolates, the geometric mean IC50 was 0.18 nM, and the values IC50 ranged from 0.09 to 0.61 nM.
Antiviral activity in combination with other antiviral drugs
None of the drugs with typical antiviral activity against HIV showed antagonism to dolutegravir (in vitro assessments were performed in combination with stavudine, abacavir, efavirenz, nevirapine, lopinavir, amprenavir, enfuvirtide, maraviroc, adefovir and raltegravir, selected in checkerboard pattern). In addition, antiviral drugs without typical HIV activity (ribavirin) had no apparent effect on dolutegravir activity.
Influencedue Serum of blood and proteins of human serum
Research in vitro confirmed a 75-fold change (CI) IC50 dolutegravir in the presence of 100% human blood serum (by extrapolation method), a IC90, corrected for protein binding (PA-IC90), in the IPPC was 64 ng / ml. The minimum concentration of doletegravir after a single dose of 50 mg in patients who had not previously taken integrase inhibitors (IIN) was 1.20 μg / ml, 19 times higher than the established PA-IC90.
Sustainability in vitro
Isolates wild such as HIV-1: during the 112-day passage of the strain 1IIB there were no viruses with high resistance to doltegravir, the maximum 4.11-fold change was observed in groups of stable viruses with passages SI53Y and SI53F in the conservative positions of the integrase gene. Passage of the strain NL432 of the wild-type HIV-1 in the presence of dolutegravir led to the selection of substitution E92Q (the migrated group of the virus with CI = 3.1) and G193E (migraine group of virus with CI = 3.2) on day 56. Additional passage subtypes B, C and A/G wild type virus in the presence of dolutegravir led to breeding R263K, G118R and S153T.
Antiviral activity at resistant strains: strains, resistant to reverse transcriptase inhibitors (IOTs) and protease inhibitors (PIs): dolutegravir demonstrated the same activity against 2 non-nucleoside (HH) -IOT-resistant, 3 nucleoside (H) -IOT-resistant and 2 PI-resistant mutant clones of HIV-1 (1 with triple and 1 with sixfold resistance) in comparison with wild strain.
HIV-1 strains resistant to InI: 60 mutant HIV-1 isolates resistant to InI (28 with one substitution and 32 with 2 or more substitutions) were obtained from the wild type virus NL432 by site-directed mutagenesis. Dolutegravir demonstrated antiviral activity (sensitivity) against HIV with CI <5 to the ratio of 27 of 28 mutant viruses resistant to InI with one substitution, including T66A/I/K, E92Q/V, Y143C/H/R, Q148H/K/R and N155H, whereas for raltegravir and elvitegravir, activity was manifested in the ratio of 17/28 and 11/21 tested mutant viruses with CI <5, respectively. In addition, of the 32 mutant viruses resistant to InI with 2 or more replacements, 23 of 32 demonstrated CI <5 for dolutegravir compared with CI <5 for 4 of 32 for raltegravir and CI <5 for 2 of the 25 viruses tested for elvitegravir .
HIV-2 strains resistant to InI: viruses were obtained by site-directed mutagenesis of HIV-2 isolates isolated from HIV-2 infected patients who received raltegravir and in whom virological inefficiency of treatment was noted. In general, CI in HIV-2 was similar to HIV-1 CI, which was observed with a similar set of mutations. CI dolutegravir was <5 vs. 4 HIV-2 viruses (S163D, G140A/Q148R, A153G/N155H/S163G and E92Q/T97A/N155H/S163D); for E92Q/N155HC of dolutegravir was 8.5, and for G140S/Q148R CI Dolutegravir has left 17. Dolutegravir, raltegravir and elvitegravir showed the same activity against HIV-2 with a site-directed mutation with S163D, as for the wild type, and for the remaining mutant HIV-2 viruses, the RI ranges of raltegravir were 6.4-420, and the ranges of CI for elvitegravir were 22-640.
Clinical isolates in patients with virologic ineffectiveness of treatment with raltegravir: 30 clinical isolates with genotypic and phenotypic
resistance to raltegravir (median CI> 81) was examined for sensitivity to dolutegravir (median CI 1.5) by analysis with Monogram Biosciences PhenoSense. Mediene of CI dolutegravir for isolates with replacements in positions G140S + Q148H was 3.75; G140S + Q148R - 13.3; T97A + Y143R - 1.05 and N155H - 1.37.
705 resistant to raltegravir isolates obtained from patients who received raltegravir, were analyzed for sensitivity to doltegravir by analysis with Monogram Biosciences PhenoSense. Dolutegravir showed CI <10 in relation to 93.9% of 705 clinical isolates, while 16 (9%) of 184 isolates with replacement Q148+1 from resistance to InI and 25 (27%) of 92 clinical isolates with replacement Q148 + ≥ 2 with resistance to InI, more than 10-fold change was observed.
Sustainability in vivo: patients who did not take inI
There were no mutations of resistance to InI or treatment-related resistance to nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) for treatment in previously untreated patients who took 50 mg of dolutegravir once a day (studies SPRING-1, SPRING-2, SINGLE and FLAMINGO). In the study SAILING in patients who received dolutegravir and previously not received InI (n= 354 in the dolutegravir group) associated with replacement therapy in integrase were observed at 48 weeks in 4 of 17 patients with virological inefficiency receiving dolutegravir. In 2 out of 4 patients, a unique replacement was observed R263K in the integrase gene with a maximum CI of 1.93, in 1 patient there was a polymorphic substitution V151V/I integrases with a maximum FC 0.92, and in 1 patient there were already initially integrase mutations and it is assumed that he had previously received InI or was infected with an InI resistant virus.
Sustainability in vivo: Patients with resistance to InI
In the study VIKING-3 studied dolutegravir (plus optimized baseline therapy) in patients with existing resistance to InI. Up to 24 weeks, 36 out of 183 patients reported a virological inefficiency (PDVF). Of these, 32 patients had paired baseline and PDVF-stability, and 17/32 (53%) showed mutations associated with treatment. The following treatment-related mutations or combinations of mutations have been observed: L74L/M (n=1), E92Q (n= 2), T97A (n= 9), E138K / A / T (n = 8), G140S (n= 2), Y143H (n= 1), S147G (n=1), Q148H /K/R (n = 4), N155H (n= 1) and E157E/Q (n= 1). In 14 of 17 patients with mutations of the virus associated with treatment, initially or in a history there was a mutation Q148. In 5 other patients, between weeks 24 and 48, PDVF, and y 2 Of these 5 patients, there were mutations that appeared during the treatment. The noted mutations that occurred during treatment, or combinations of mutations, were L74I (n=1), N155H (n=2).
In the study VIKING-4 studied dolutegravir (plus optimized base therapy) in 30 patients with primary genotypic resistance to InI detected during screening. The mutations that occurred during the treatment corresponded to the mutations observed in the study VIKING-3.
Influence on the parameters of the electrocardiogram (ECG)
In a randomized, cross-over, placebo-controlled clinical trial, 42 healthy volunteers received a single dose of placebo, a suspension of dolutegravir 250 mg (approximately 3 times the effect of a dose of 50 mg once a day in an equilibrium state) and moxifloxacin (400 mg, active control) order. Dolutegravir did not cause lengthening of the corrected interval (QTc) within 24 hours after taking the drug. After correction according to baseline ECG indices to placebo, the maximum mean change QTc, based on a correction by Frederick's formula (QTcF), was 1.99 msec (the upper limit of a 1-sided 95% confidence interval was 4.53 msec).
Effect on kidney function
The effect of dolutegravir on the serum creatinine clearance (CC), the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in the sample with yogexol, and the effective renal plasma flux (EPP) in the sample with paraamine hippurate were evaluated in an open, randomized, placebo-controlled study in 3 groups with 37 healthy volunteers who received 50 mg dolutegravir 1 time per day (n= 12), 50 mg - 2 times a day (n= 13) or placebo 1 time per day (n= 12) within 14 days. There was a moderate decrease in QC when dolutegravir was administered during the first week of treatment, corresponding to a decrease that was observed in clinical studies. When taken in both doses dolutegravir had no significant effect on GFR or EPP. These data confirm studies in vitro, which suggest that small increases in creatinine levels observed in clinical studies are caused by non-pathological inhibition of the organic cation transfer agent 2 (OST2) in the proximal renal tubules, which causes tubular secretion of creatinine.