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Selpercatinib is a potent and highly selective Rearranged during Transfection (RET) kinase inhibitor for patients with RET fusion-positive thyroid cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer. The present study aims to investigate the inhibitory effects of selpercatinib towards human UDP-glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs), and assess its risk for drug-drug interactions (DDIs) via UGT inhibition. The inhibition of selpercatinib towards 12 recombinant human UGT isoforms were measured. Our data demonstrated that selpercatinib exhibited highly selective inhibition towards UGT1A4. Enzyme kinetic study indicated that selpercatinib competitively inhibited the activity of UGT1A4, with a Ki value of 1.57 ± 0.14 μM. The quantitative prediction of DDIs risk indicated that the co-administration of selpercatinib with UGT1A4 substrate might trigger clinically significant DDIs. Additional caution should be taken to avoid unexpected DDIs when selpercatinib and other UGT1A4 substrates are combined.
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