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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 19.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Infect Dis. 2016 Jul 6;2(8):552–563. doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.6b00051

Table 1.

Fraction Unbound (fu) of 36 TB Drugs and TB-Inactive Compoundsa

rPlasma fu (%) rCaseum fu (%) surrogate fu (%)
Ethambutol 80.2 ± 5.5 35.2 ± 4.4 38.8 ± 5.6
Isoniazid >99.9 >99.9 >99.9
Acetyl-isoniazid 89.4 ± 4.7 >99.9 >99.9
Pyrazinamide >99.9 >99.9 62.0 ± 3.5
p-aminosalicylic acid 43.9 ± 1.8 54.7 ± 1.4 51.1 ± 11.2
Ethionamide 29.6 ± 2.5b 52.8 ± 2.4b 27.8 ± 11.9
Rifampicin 6.05 ± 0.2 5.13 ± 0.2 7.3 ± 0.6
Rifapentine 0.59 ± 0.04 0.5 ± 0.1 1.1 ± 0.1
Moxifloxacin 64.5 ± 2.2 13.5 ± 3.7 16.8 ± 1.8
Levofloxacin 44.0 ± 6.0 8.34 ± 0.4 16.3 ± 3.1
Gatifloxacin 65.4 ± 5.1 16.3 ± 4.2 18.8 ± 2.9
Linezolid 56.7 ± 3.1 29.3 ± 3.6 27.9 ± 2.2
Posizolid 8.64 ± 0.9 10.7 ± 1.7 17.6 ± 4.5
Sutezolid 20.5 ± 0.2 30.1 ± 8.7 21.7 ± 1.7
Radezolid 3.05 ± 0.1 5.2 ± 0.8 7.6 ± 1.9
Tedizolid 30.7 ± 2.0 8.8 ± 1.8 13.7 ± 2.7
Clofazimine <0.01 <0.01 <0.01
Bedaquiline <0.01 <0.01 <0.01
PA-824 11.1 ± 0.2 7.31 ± 2.2 3.6 ± 0.2
OPC67683 <0.01b 0.04 ± 0.02b 0.02 ± 0.002
LLY001 44.7 ± 3.6 63.2 ± 7.3
LLY002 9.6 ± 0.8 15.3 ± 0.9
LLY003 31.8 ± 4.6 34.0 ± 5.1
LLY004 7.9 ± 0.4 22.8 ± 3.9
LLY005 26.8 ± 1.9 28.1 ± 6.2
LLY006 56.4 ± 6.6 79.05 ± 4.4
LLY007 4.1 ± 0.5 10 ± 2.6
LLY008 1.9 ± 0.1 1.78 ± 0.5
LLY009 3.1 ± 0.3 2.37 ± 0.5
LLY010 0.3 ± 0.04 0.11 ± 0.01
LLY011 0.5 ± 0.1 0.08 ± 0.03
LLY012 0.25 ± 0.04 0.75 ± 0.1
LLY013 0.21 ± 0.05 0.4 ± 0.01
LLY014 0.29 ± 0.05 0.21 ± 0.03
LLY015 9.75 ± 1.23 12.1 ± 3.16
LLY016 13.8 ± 2.8 24.4 ± 2.39
a

Compounds were tested in rabbit plasma (rPlasma), rabbit caseum (rCaseum) and the surrogate matrix produced from human THP1 macrophages. RED assays were conducted in triplicates and fu is expressed as the mean ± SD.

b

Assays that had <70% recovery.