Metal-ion-dependent biological properties of a chelator-derived somatostatin analogue for tumour targeting
Metal-ion-dependent biological properties of a chelator-derived somatostatin analogue for tumour targeting
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DOI:
10.1002/chem.200701264
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发表时间:
2008-01-01
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
Maecke, Helmut R.
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作者:
Heppeler, Axel;Andre, Joao P.;Maecke, Helmut R.
Somatostatin-based radioligands have been shown to have sensitive imaging properties for neuroendocrine tumours and their metastases. The potential of [Co-55(dotatoc)] (dotatoc = 4,7,10-tricarboxymethyl-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-1-ylacetyl-D-Phe-(Cys-Tyr-D-Trp-Lys-Thr-Cys)-threoninol (disulfide bond)) as a new radiopharmaceutical agent for PET has been evaluated. Co-57 was used as a surrogate of the positron emitter Co-55 and the pharmacokinetics of [Co-57(dotatoc)] were investigated by using two nude mouse models. The somatostatin receptor subtype (sst1-sst5) affinity profile of [Co-nat(dotatoc)] on membranes transfected with human somatostatin receptor subtypes was assessed by using autoradiographic methods. These studies revealed that [Co-57(dotatoc)] is an sst2-specific radiopeptide which presents the highest affinity ever found for the sst2 receptor subtype. The rate of internalisation into the AR4-2J cell line also was the highest found for any somatostatin-based radiopeptide. Biodistribution studies, performed in nude mice bearing an AR4-2J tumour or a transfected HEK-sst2 cell-based tumour, showed high and specific uptake in the tumour and in other sst-receptor-expressing tissues, which reflects the high receptor binding affinity and the high rate of internalisation. The pharmacologic differences between [Co-57(dotatoc)] and [Ga-67(dotatoc)] are discussed in terms of the structural parameters found for the chelate models [Co-II(dota)](2-) and [Ga-III(dota)](-) whose X-ray structures have been determined. Both chelates show six-fold coordination in pseudooctahedral arrangements.