TABLE 3

Kinetic parameters describing the uptake of RSV into cynomolgus monkey and human primary hepatocytes and OATP-expressing HEK-293 cells

Hepatocytesa
Cynomolgus MonkeyHuman
Km (µM)6.7 ± 0.810.3 ± 1.9
Vmax (pmol/min/106cells)172.3 ± 9.5114.3 ± 11.6
Vmax/Km (µl/min/106cells)25.711.0
Pdiff (µl/min/106cells)0.7 ± 0.10.5 ± 0.1
[(Vmax/Km)/(Vmax/Km + Pdiff)]•100%b9796
HEK-293 Cellsa,c
cOATP1B1hOATP1B1cOATP1B3hOATP1B3cOATP2B1hOATP2B1
Km (µM)14.4 ± 3.015.3 ± 3.014.5 ± 2.013.5 ± 2.09.6 ± 0.810.6 ± 1.0
  • HEK-293, human embryonic kidney 293 cells; Km, Michaelis-Menten constant that corresponds to the substrate concentration at which the uptake rate is half of Vmax; OATP, organic anion–transporting peptide; Pdiff, nonsaturable clearance via passive diffusion; RSV, rosuvastatin; Vmax, maximum transport rate.

  • a Data represent mean ± S.D. of the parameter estimate after non-linear fitting of the data (see Materials and Methods).

  • b Data indicate that >95% of total uptake is mediated by active transport.

  • c Vmax values of RSV uptake into OATP-expressing HEK-293 cells are not reported in the absence of specific OATP protein expression data.