Kinetics of nikkomycin Z degradation in aqueous solution and in plasma

Biological & Pharmaceutical Bulletin
T Tokumura, T Horie

Abstract

The stability of nikkomycin Z in aqueous solution at various pH values and in the plasma of several kinds of experimental animals was studied. The degradation of nikkomycin Z in aqueous solution at pH 4 to 11.5 and in plasma was an apparent first-order reaction. The degradation rate at 37 degrees C increased with increasing pH, from 4.0 to 7.5, and decreased with increasing pH from 7.5 to 10.2. Above pH 10.2, the degradation rate was constant. The maximal rate of nikkomycin Z degradation was observed in pH 7.5 buffer solution, in which the apparent first-order rate constant (k(obs)) was 8.08 x 10(-2) h(-1) (t1/2 = 8.6 h). The degradation rate of nikkomycin Z in dog plasma at 37 degrees C was the almost same as that in pH 7.5 buffer. The rates in rat, mouse, and rabbit plasma were much greater than that in pH 7.5 buffer; the k(obs) values for rat, mouse, rabbit, and dog plasma at 37 degrees C were 1.74 x 10(-1) min(-1), 3.64 x 10(-2) min(-1), 5.10 x 10(-1) h(-1), and 6.14 x 10(-2) h(-1), respectively. The degradation rate of nikkomycin Z in rat plasma was markedly decreased when NaF, an esterase inhibitor, was added to the plasma. The findings of faster degradation rates in rat, mouse, and rabbit plasma compared with that in pH ...Continue Reading

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