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Mechanism of Vasopeptidase Inhibitor-Induced Plasma Extravasation: Comparison of Omapatrilat and the Novel Neutral Endopeptidase 24.11/Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor GW796406

Departments of Urogenital and Renal Biology, Cardiovascular and Urogenital Center of Excellence for Drug Discovery, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania (A.C.S., M.A.P., R.M.E., D.P.B.) and Stevenage, United Kingdom (J.B.L., R.W.)

We describe N-[(2S)-2-(mercaptomethyl)-3-methylbutanoyl]-4-(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)-L-phenylalanine (GW796406), a vasopeptidase inhibitor (VPI) that possessed 3-fold selectivity for neutral endopeptidase 24.11 (NEP) versus angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) in in vitro assays using rat and human enzymes. In the same assays, omapatrilat, the most extensively studied VPI, displayed 3-fold selectivity for ACE. The in vivo ACE and NEP inhibition profile and the liability of the compounds to increase plasma extravasation were compared at two (low and high) therapeutically equivalent intravenous doses in the rat. At the low dose, both agents inhibited ACE activity by 85%. Consistent with their in vitro ACE/NEP selectivity, omapatrilat produced 49% inhibition, whereas GW796406 produced >95% inhibition of NEP. Neither compound increased plasma extravasation. When the low dose was administered to rats pretreated with the NEP inhibitor ecadotril to normalize NEP background to <5% of control, only omapatrilat significantly increased plasma extravasation. At the high dose, omapatrilat and GW796406 produced profound, nonselective inhibition of ACE (>90%) and NEP (>95%), and they significantly increased plasma extravasation. The activity of the agents as inhibitors of dipeptidylpeptidase IV (DPP IV) and aminopeptidase P (APP) was also investigated. Neither compound inhibited DPP IV. Interestingly, omapatrilat, but not GW796406, was a relatively potent inhibitor of APP (IC₅₀ = 260 nM). We investigated whether APP inhibition increased the plasma extravasation liability of GW796406. The low dose of GW796406 administered with apstatin, an APP inhibitor, did not increase plasma extravasation. This finding inferred that APP inhibition is not involved in plasma extravasation in the rat and that APP inhibition does not explain the increased plasma extravasation produced by omapatrilat in NEP-inhibited rats.

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