Lumakras
sotorasib
Species
RatDog
Longest study
13 wk
Genotox
Conducted Conducted
Carcinogenicity
Not conducted Not conducted
Repro
Conducted Conducted
First dose
Partial / alternative Partly stated
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Species
Rat and dog
“The Applicant evaluated the safety of sotorasib using Sprague-Dawley rats and Beagle dogs in GLP-compliant repeat-dose toxicology studies of up to 3 months duration.”
Why that species
Human metabolites formed in vitro were also produced by rat and dog liver microsomes/hepatocytes
“The human metabolites formed in vitro were also produced in the rat and dog in vitro (liver microsomes/hepatocytes).”
Surrogate molecule
No surrogate; the clinical compound was tested
“The Applicant evaluated the safety of sotorasib using Sprague-Dawley rats and Beagle dogs in GLP-compliant repeat-dose toxicology studies of up to 3 months duration.”
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Longest pivotal study
13 (3-month rat and dog)
“The Applicant evaluated the safety of sotorasib using Sprague-Dawley rats and Beagle dogs in GLP-compliant repeat-dose toxicology studies of up to 3 months duration.”
Pivotal GLP studies
3-month rat and dog GLP oral repeat-dose studies
“The Applicant evaluated the safety of sotorasib using Sprague-Dawley rats and Beagle dogs in GLP-compliant repeat-dose toxicology studies of up to 3 months duration.”
Route in tox
Oral
“The oral route of administration was chosen for in vivo nonclinical studies based on the intended clinical route of administration.”
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Genotoxicity
Negative in Ames and in vivo rat micronucleus and comet assays; some in vitro micronucleus induction
“Though both sotorasib and the M24 metabolite showed some potential for induction of micronuclei in vitro, neither was mutagenic in in vitro bacterial reverse mutation (Ames) assays and sotorasib was not genotoxic in the in vivo erythrocyte micronucleus test and alkaline comet assay in rats.”
Carcinogenicity
Not conducted (advanced cancer indication)
“The Applicant did not conduct carcinogenicity or fertility studies to support the currently proposed indication (NSCLC), and these studies are not needed to support a marketing application for a drug intended to treat patients with advanced cancer.”
Reproductive & developmental
Rat and rabbit EFD: no adverse developmental effects or embryolethality up to 4.6x human exposure
“In rat and rabbit embryo-fetal development studies, oral sotorasib did not cause adverse developmental effects or embryo-lethality at exposures up to 4.6 times the human exposure at the 960 mg clinical dose”
Safety pharmacology
hERG IC50 54.8 µM; no ECG or hemodynamic effects in telemetered dogs up to 300 mg/kg
“The sotorasib hERG IC50 was 54.8 µM (Study 150431); no clinically significant interaction with the hERG channel is expected over the proposed clinical dose range. In vivo, sotorasib at doses up to 300 mg/kg did not result in changes to qualitative ECG, quantitative ECG, or haemodynamic parameters”
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First-in-human starting dose
Derivation not stated; clinical exposures at 180-960 mg were below those at the rat STD10 but above those at the dog HNSTD
“The mean observed sotorasib clinical exposures from 180, 360, 720, and 960 mg once daily (QD) dosing in subjects (Study 20170543) were lower than the exposures observed at the STD10 of 180 mg/kg in rats in the 3-month GLP repeat-dose toxicology study (Study 150432), but higher than the exposures observed at the HNSTD of 1000 mg/kg/day in dogs”
NOAEL / key findings
Rat kidney tubular degeneration/necrosis with renal injury biomarkers at ≥0.5x clinical AUC
“In rats, renal toxicity including minimal to marked histologic tubular degeneration/necrosis and increased kidney weight, urea nitrogen, creatinine, and urinary biomarkers of renal tubular injury were present at doses resulting in exposures approximately ≥ 0.5 times the human AUC at the clinical dose of 960 mg.”
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Immune & cytokine safety
Decreased thymus weight and lymphoid cellularity in dogs
“pituitary gland (increased weight and hypertrophy of pituitary basophils of the pars distalis), thymus (decreased weight and decreased lymphoid cellularity), and gallbladder (bile sludge).”
Biodistribution & persistence
Wide distribution, highest in liver, kidney, thyroid, pancreas, lacrimal and adrenal glands; low brain penetration
“Following single oral administration, 14C-sotorasib-derived radioactivity distributed widely to rat tissues especially the liver, kidney, thyroid, pancreas, exorbital lacrimal gland, intra-orbital lacrimal gland, and adrenal gland, but brain penetration appeared low.”
Modality-specific risk
Renal tubular toxicity in rats via β-lyase bioactivation to a sulfur-containing metabolite
“Increases in cysteine S-conjugate β-lyase pathway metabolism in the rat kidney compared to human may make rats more susceptible to renal toxicity due to local formation of a putative sulfur-containing metabolite than humans.”