Isoniazid (oral)
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Overview
Isoniazid also known as isonicotinylhydrazine (INH), is an organic compound that is the first-line medication in prevention and treatment of tuberculosis. The compound was first synthesized in the early 20th century,[1] but its activity against tuberculosis was first reported in the early 1950s, and three pharmaceutical companies attempted unsuccessfully to simultaneously patent the drug[2] (the most prominent one being Roche, which launched its version, Rimifon, in 1952). The drug was first tested at Many Farms, a Navajo community, due to the Navajo reservation's dire tuberculosis problem and the fact that the population was naïve with respect to streptomycin, the main tuberculosis treatment at the time.[3] With the introduction of isoniazid, a cure for tuberculosis was first considered reasonable.
Category
Antimycobacterial
US Brand Names
ISONIAZID®, LANIAZID® (DISCONTINUED), NYDRAZID® (DISCONTINUED)
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Mechanisms of Action
Isoniazid is a prodrug and must be activated by a bacterial catalase-peroxidase enzyme that in M. tuberculosis is called KatG.[4] KatG couples the isonicotinic acyl with NADH to form isonicotinic acyl-NADH complex. This complex binds tightly to the enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase known as InhA, thereby blocking the natural enoyl-AcpM substrate and the action of fatty acid synthase. This process inhibits the synthesis of mycolic acid, required for the mycobacterial cell wall. A range of radicals are produced by KatG activation of isoniazid, including nitric oxide,[5] which has also been shown to be important in the action of another antimycobacterial prodrug PA-824.[6]
Isoniazid is bactericidal to rapidly dividing mycobacteria, but is bacteriostatic if the mycobacteria are slow-growing.[7]
Isoniazid inhibits the P450 system.[8]
References
- ↑ Meyer H, Mally J (1912). "On hydrazine derivatives of pyridine carbonic acids". Monatshefte Chemie verwandte Teile anderer Wissenschaften (in German). 33: 393&ndash, 414. doi:10.1007/BF01517946.PDF fulltext
- ↑ Hans L Riede (2009). "Fourth-generation fluoroquinolones in tuberculosis". Lancet. 373 (9670): 1148&ndash, 1149. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60559-6. PMID 19345815.
- ↑ Jones, David (2002). "The Health Care Experiments at Many Farms: The Navajo, Tuberculosis, and the Limits of Modern Medicine, 1952-1962". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 76 (4): 749–790.
- ↑ Suarez J, Ranguelova K, Jarzecki AA; et al. (2009). "An oxyferrous heme/protein-based radical intermediate is catalytically competent in the catalase reaction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis catalase-peroxidase (KatG)". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284 (11): 7017–29. doi:10.1074/jbc.M808106200. PMC 2652337. PMID 19139099. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ↑ Timmins GS, Master S, Rusnak F, Deretic V (2004). "Nitric oxide generated from isoniazid activation by KatG: source of nitric oxide and activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis". Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 48 (8): 3006–9. doi:10.1128/AAC.48.8.3006-3009.2004. PMC 478481. PMID 15273113. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ↑ Singh R, Manjunatha U, Boshoff HI; et al. (2008). "PA-824 kills nonreplicating Mycobacterium tuberculosis by intracellular NO release". Science. 322 (5906): 1392–5. doi:10.1126/science.1164571. PMC 2723733. PMID 19039139. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ↑ PMID 19686043 (PMID 19686043)
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