INTRODUCTION: BTZ-043 is a promising novel drug candidate for anti-tuberculosis treatment. This study aimed to apply a previously developed mouse-to-human translational modeling platform for anti-tuberculosis drugs to predict phase IIA outcomes for BTZ-043 in humans and evaluate the impact of observed drug-drug interactions on the contribution of BTZ-043 to combotherapy in a mouse model. METHODS: The study utilized data from mouse experiments for BTZ-043 monotherapy and combotherapy with bedaquiline, pretomanid, and linezolid, and clinical information for BTZ-043 monotherapy. The translational models were applied to predict the colony-forming units as a measure of efficacy in humans treated with BTZ-043 monotherapy and evaluate the effect of BTZ-043 on the pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics of combotherapy bedaquiline, pretomanid, and linezolid. RESULTS: The mouse-pharmacokinetic and mouse-pharmacodynamic data for BTZ-043 monotherapy were best described by two-compartmental and direct Emax models, respectively. The model-based prediction of efficacy in humans was comparable to the observed phase IIA efficacy. Single-compartmental models, developed separately, best described the mouse-pharmacokinetic data for bedaquiline, pretomanid, and linezolid in combotherapy. Co-administration with BTZ-043 was associated with at least a 2-fold reduction in bedaquiline, pretomanid, and linezolid exposures in mice, and model-based simulations suggested that the observed decreases in exposure to these drugs would have resulted in even lower efficacy than what was observed when BPaL is co-administered with BTZ-043. CONCLUSION: The translational modeling platform adequately predicted the efficacy of BTZ-043 monotherapy. In the absence of drug-drug interactions, co-administration of BTZ-043 with bedaquiline, pretomanid, and linezolid in combotherapy is predicted to improve treatment efficacy.
FörderungenNederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek TB Alliance German Center for Infection Research European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership 2 program German Ministry for Education and Research German Center for Infection Research InfectControl Bavarian Ministry for Science and the Arts Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases