Sorafenib is a drug that belongs to the antineoplastics drug class, which is the drug class relating to the treatment of cancer, specifically renal, hepatic and thyroid cancers. This drug works by stopping cancerous tumour progress and stopping therapy replication pf potentially malignant cells. It does this by inhibiting protein synthesis, as we will explore in the pathway. Sorafenib is administered orally, in a tablet form taken twice daily without food. Once ingested, sorafenib finds itself in the endoplasmic reticulum membrane , where it inhibits cytochrome P450 2B6, cytochrome P450 2C8, cytochrome P450 2C9 and UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1-1. Sorafenib is also catalyzed, with the help uridine diphosphate glucuronic acid and the enzyme UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1-9 to sorafenib b-D-glucuronide with a by-product of uridine 5’-diphosphate. Sorafenib also undergoes a transformation without the use of catalytic enzymes and becomes sorafenib metabolite M4 and subsequently becomes sorafenib metabolite M5. In another reaction, sorafenib teams up with water and oxygen, using cytochrome P450 3A4 to create sorafenib N-oxide and hydrogen peroxide. Sorafenib N-oxide then undergoes two more reactions, one where it becomes sorafenib N-oxide glucuronide, and another where it becomes sorafenib metabolite M1. Sorafenib metabolite M1 is also attached to another reaction, as sorafenib creates sorafenib metabolite M3, sorafenib metabolite M1 is also created from this metabolite.

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