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Lee K, Lall R, Chopra S, Evans MJ, Maharbiz MM, Seo Y, Anwar M. SENTRI: Single-Particle Energy Transducer for Radionuclide Injections for Personalized Targeted Radionuclide Cancer Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2024; 118:1575-1584. [PMID: 38122990 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.11.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2023] [Revised: 08/11/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
Abstract
PURPOSE Targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT), whereby a tumor-targeted molecule is linked to a therapeutic beta- or alpha-emitting radioactive nuclide, is a promising treatment modality for patients with metastatic cancer, delivering radiation systemically. However, patients still progress due to suboptimal dosing, driven by the large patient-to-patient variability. Therefore, the ability to continuously monitor the real-time dose deposition in tumors and organs at risk provides an additional dimension of information during clinical trials that can enable insights into better strategies to personalize TRT. METHODS AND MATERIALS Here, we present a single beta-particle sensitive dosimeter consisting of a 0.27-mm3 monolithic silicon chiplet directly implanted into the tumor. To maximize the sensitivity and have enough detection area, minimum-size diodes (1 μm2) are arrayed in 64 × 64. Signal amplifiers, buffers, and on-chip memories are all integrated in the chip. For verification, PC3-PIP (prostate-specific membrane antigen [PSMA]+) and PC3-flu (PSMA-) cell lines are injected into the left and right flanks of the mice, respectively. The devices are inserted into each tumor and measure activities at 5 different time points (0-2 hours, 7-9 hours, 12-14 hours, 24-26 hours, and 48-50 hours) after 177Lu-PSMA-617 injections. Single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography scans are used to verify measured data. RESULTS With a wide detection range from 0.013 to 8.95 MBq/mL, the system is capable of detecting high tumor uptake as well as low doses delivered to organs at risk in real time. The measurement data are highly proportional (R2 > 0.99) to the 177Lu-PSMA-617 activity. The in vivo measurement data agree well with the single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography results within acceptable errors (±1.5%ID/mL). CONCLUSIONS Given the recent advances in clinical use of TRT in prostate cancer, the proposed system is verified in a prostate cancer mouse model using 177Lu-PSMA-617.
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- Kyoungtae Lee
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, California; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Daegu, South Korea.
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, California; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California.
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Evans MJ, Corripio-Miyar Y, Hayward A, Kenyon F, McNeilly TN, Nussey DH. Antagonism between co-infecting gastrointestinal nematodes: A meta-analysis of experimental infections in Sheep. Vet Parasitol 2023; 323:110053. [PMID: 37879240 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2023.110053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2023] [Revised: 10/08/2023] [Accepted: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023]
Abstract
Gastrointestinal nematodes (GIN) have enormous global impacts in humans, wildlife and grazing livestock. Within grazing livestock, sheep are of particular global importance and the economics and sustainability of sheep production are greatly constrained by GIN infections. Natural infections are composed of co-infections with multiple species, and while some past work suggests species can interact negatively with one another within the same host, there is wide variation in reported patterns. Here, we undertook a systematic literature search and meta-analysis of experimental GIN co-infections of sheep to determine whether these experimental studies support the hypothesis of antagonistic interactions between different co-infecting GIN, and test whether aspects of parasite biology or experimental design influence the observed effects. A systematic search of the literature yielded 4848 studies, within which, we identified 19 experimental sheep studies comparing post-mortem worm counts across two co-infecting GIN species. Meta-analysis of 67 effects obtained from these studies provides strong evidence for interactions between GIN species. There was wide variation in the strength and direction of these interactions, but the global effect was significantly antagonistic. On average, there was a decrease in the number of worms of one species when a co-infecting species was also present, relative to a mono-infection with that species alone. This effect was dependent on the infectious dose and was rapidly lost after anthelmintic treatment, suggesting that live worms are required for the effect to occur. Individual parasite species varied in the extent to which they both exerted, and were subject to, these interspecies interactions, and these differences are more complex than simply co-localisation within the gastrointestinal tract. Antagonistic interactions between co-infecting GIN may feedback into their epidemiology as well as potentially affecting the clinical impacts of infection. Furthermore, the consequences of these interactions may be heightened when clinical interventions affect only one species within the co-infecting network. Whilst it was not possible to identify the causes of variation between GIN species in the impact of co-infection, these findings point to new avenues for epidemiological, clinical and mechanistic research on GIN co-infections.
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- M J Evans
- Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, UK; Department for Disease Control, Moredun Research Institute, Penicuik, UK; Institute for Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
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- Department for Disease Control, Moredun Research Institute, Penicuik, UK
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- Department for Disease Control, Moredun Research Institute, Penicuik, UK
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- Department for Disease Control, Moredun Research Institute, Penicuik, UK
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- Department for Disease Control, Moredun Research Institute, Penicuik, UK
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- Institute for Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Sorlin A, López-Álvarez M, Rabbitt SJ, Alanizi AA, Shuere R, Bobba KN, Blecha J, Sakhamuri S, Evans MJ, Bayles KW, Flavell RR, Rosenberg OS, Sriram R, Desmet T, Nidetzky B, Engel J, Ohliger MA, Fraser JS, Wilson DM. Chemoenzymatic Syntheses of Fluorine-18-Labeled Disaccharides from [ 18F] FDG Yield Potent Sensors of Living Bacteria In Vivo. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:17632-17642. [PMID: 37535945 PMCID: PMC10436271 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c03338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 08/05/2023]
Abstract
Chemoenzymatic techniques have been applied extensively to pharmaceutical development, most effectively when routine synthetic methods fail. The regioselective and stereoselective construction of structurally complex glycans is an elegant application of this approach that is seldom applied to positron emission tomography (PET) tracers. We sought a method to dimerize 2-deoxy-[18F]-fluoro-d-glucose ([18F]FDG), the most common tracer used in clinical imaging, to form [18F]-labeled disaccharides for detecting microorganisms in vivo based on their bacteria-specific glycan incorporation. When [18F]FDG was reacted with β-d-glucose-1-phosphate in the presence of maltose phosphorylase, the α-1,4- and α-1,3-linked products 2-deoxy-[18F]-fluoro-maltose ([18F]FDM) and 2-deoxy-2-[18F]-fluoro-sakebiose ([18F]FSK) were obtained. This method was further extended with the use of trehalose (α,α-1,1), laminaribiose (β-1,3), and cellobiose (β-1,4) phosphorylases to synthesize 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-trehalose ([18F]FDT), 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-laminaribiose ([18F]FDL), and 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-cellobiose ([18F]FDC). We subsequently tested [18F]FDM and [18F]FSK in vitro, showing accumulation by several clinically relevant pathogens including Staphylococcus aureus and Acinetobacter baumannii, and demonstrated their specific uptake in vivo. Both [18F]FDM and [18F]FSK were stable in human serum with high accumulation in preclinical infection models. The synthetic ease and high sensitivity of [18F]FDM and [18F]FSK to S. aureus including methicillin-resistant (MRSA) strains strongly justify clinical translation of these tracers to infected patients. Furthermore, this work suggests that chemoenzymatic radiosyntheses of complex [18F]FDG-derived oligomers will afford a wide array of PET radiotracers for infectious and oncologic applications.
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- Alexandre
M. Sorlin
- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Pathology and Microbiology, University
of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68198, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Medicine University of California, San
Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Biotechnology, Ghent University, Gent B-9000, Belgium
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- Department
of Biotechnology, Ghent University, Gent B-9000, Belgium
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- Institute
of Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Graz 8010, Austria
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- Department
of Biotechnology, Ghent University, Gent B-9000, Belgium
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Department
of Radiology Zuckerberg San Francisco General
Hospital, San Francisco, California 94110, United States
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- Department
of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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Klauser PC, Chopra S, Cao L, Bobba KN, Yu B, Seo Y, Chan E, Flavell RR, Evans MJ, Wang L. Covalent Proteins as Targeted Radionuclide Therapies Enhance Antitumor Effects. ACS Cent Sci 2023; 9:1241-1251. [PMID: 37396859 PMCID: PMC10311652 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.3c00288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2023] [Indexed: 07/04/2023]
Abstract
Molecularly targeted radionuclide therapies (TRTs) struggle with balancing efficacy and safety, as current strategies to increase tumor absorption often alter drug pharmacokinetics to prolong circulation and normal tissue irradiation. Here we report the first covalent protein TRT, which, through reacting with the target irreversibly, increases radioactive dose to the tumor without altering the drug's pharmacokinetic profile or normal tissue biodistribution. Through genetic code expansion, we engineered a latent bioreactive amino acid into a nanobody, which binds to its target protein and forms a covalent linkage via the proximity-enabled reactivity, cross-linking the target irreversibly in vitro, on cancer cells, and on tumors in vivo. The radiolabeled covalent nanobody markedly increases radioisotope levels in tumors and extends tumor residence time while maintaining rapid systemic clearance. Furthermore, the covalent nanobody conjugated to the α-emitter actinium-225 inhibits tumor growth more effectively than the noncovalent nanobody without causing tissue toxicity. Shifting the protein-based TRT from noncovalent to covalent mode, this chemical strategy improves tumor responses to TRTs and can be readily scaled to diverse protein radiopharmaceuticals engaging broad tumor targets.
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- Paul C. Klauser
- Department
of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Helen
Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Helen
Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Helen
Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Helen
Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Pathology, University of California San
Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Helen
Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Helen
Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Helen
Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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Sorlin AM, López-Álvarez M, Rabbitt SJ, Alanizi AA, Shuere R, Bobba KN, Blecha J, Sakhamuri S, Evans MJ, Bayles KW, Flavell RR, Rosenberg OS, Sriram R, Desmet T, Nidetzky B, Engel J, Ohliger MA, Fraser JS, Wilson DM. Chemoenzymatic syntheses of fluorine-18-labeled disaccharides from [ 18 F]FDG yield potent sensors of living bacteria in vivo. bioRxiv 2023:2023.05.20.541529. [PMID: 37293043 PMCID: PMC10245702 DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.20.541529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
Chemoenzymatic techniques have been applied extensively to pharmaceutical development, most effectively when routine synthetic methods fail. The regioselective and stereoselective construction of structurally complex glycans is an elegant application of this approach, that is seldom applied to positron emission tomography (PET) tracers. We sought a method to dimerize 2-deoxy-[ 18 F]-fluoro-D-glucose ([ 18 F]FDG), the most common tracer used in clinical imaging, to form [ 18 F]-labeled disaccharides for detecting microorganisms in vivo based on their bacteria-specific glycan incorporation. When [ 18 F]FDG was reacted with β-D-glucose-1-phosphate in the presence of maltose phosphorylase, both the α-1,4 and α-1,3-linked products 2-deoxy-[ 18 F]-fluoro-maltose ([ 18 F]FDM) and 2-deoxy-2-[ 18 F]-fluoro-sakebiose ([ 18 F]FSK) were obtained. This method was further extended with the use of trehalose (α,α-1,1), laminaribiose (β-1,3), and cellobiose (β-1,4) phosphorylases to synthesize 2-deoxy-2-[ 18 F]fluoro-trehalose ([ 18 F]FDT), 2-deoxy-2-[ 18 F]fluoro-laminaribiose ([ 18 F]FDL), and 2-deoxy-2-[ 18 F]fluoro-cellobiose ([ 18 F]FDC). We subsequently tested [ 18 F]FDM and [ 18 F]FSK in vitro, showing accumulation by several clinically relevant pathogens including Staphylococcus aureus and Acinetobacter baumannii, and demonstrated their specific uptake in vivo. The lead sakebiose-derived tracer [ 18 F]FSK was stable in human serum and showed high uptake in preclinical models of myositis and vertebral discitis-osteomyelitis. Both the synthetic ease, and high sensitivity of [ 18 F]FSK to S. aureus including methicillin-resistant (MRSA) strains strongly justify clinical translation of this tracer to infected patients. Furthermore, this work suggests that chemoenzymatic radiosyntheses of complex [ 18 F]FDG-derived oligomers will afford a wide array of PET radiotracers for infectious and oncologic applications.
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Chopra S, Trepka K, Sakhamuri S, Carretero-González A, Zhu J, Egusa E, Zhou J, Leung K, Zhao N, Hooshdaran N, Feng FY, Wells JA, Chou J, Evans MJ. Theranostic Targeting of CUB Domain-Containing Protein 1 (CDCP1) in Multiple Subtypes of Bladder Cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2023; 29:1232-1242. [PMID: 36648492 PMCID: PMC10073270 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-22-1973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2022] [Revised: 11/13/2022] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
Abstract
PURPOSE Despite recent approvals for checkpoint inhibitors and antibody-drug conjugates targeting NECTIN4 or TROP2, metastatic bladder cancer remains incurable and new treatment strategies are urgently needed. CUB domain-containing protein 1 (CDCP1) is a cell surface protein and promising drug target for many cancers. This study aimed to determine whether CDCP1 is expressed in bladder cancer and whether CDCP1 can be targeted for treatment with radiolabeled antibodies. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN CDCP1 expression was evaluated in four bladder cancer datasets (n = 1,047 biopsies). A tissue microarray of primary bladder cancer biopsies was probed for CDCP1 by IHC. CDCP1 expression was evaluated in patient-derived xenografts and cell lysates by immunoblot, flow cytometry, and saturation binding assays. Tumor detection in mouse bladder cancer models was tested using 89Zr-labeled 4A06, a monoclonal antibody targeting the ectodomain of CDCP1. 177Lu-4A06 was applied to mice bearing UMUC3 or HT-1376 xenografts to evaluate antitumor effects (CDCP1 expression in UMUC3 is 10-fold higher than HT-1376). RESULTS CDCP1 was highest in the basal/squamous subtype, and CDCP1 was expressed in 53% of primary biopsies. CDCP1 was not correlated with pathologic or tumor stage, metastatic site, or NECTIN4 and TROP2 at the mRNA or protein level. CDCP1 ranged from 105 to 106 receptors per cell. Mechanism studies showed that RAS signaling induced CDCP1 expression. 89Zr-4A06 PET detected five human bladder cancer xenografts. 177Lu-4A06 inhibited the growth of UMUC3 and HT-1376 xenografts, models with high and moderate CDCP1 expression, respectively. CONCLUSIONS These data establish that CDCP1 is expressed in bladder cancer, including TROP2 and NECTIN4-null disease, and suggest that bladder cancer can be treated with CDCP1-targeted radiotherapy.
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- Shalini Chopra
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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Gonciarz RL, Sakhamuri S, Hooshdaran N, Kumar G, Kim H, Evans MJ, Renslo AR. Elevated labile iron in castration-resistant prostate cancer is targetable with ferrous iron-activatable antiandrogen therapy. Eur J Med Chem 2023; 249:115110. [PMID: 36708680 PMCID: PMC10210592 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2023.115110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2022] [Revised: 01/05/2023] [Accepted: 01/07/2023] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
Abstract
Clinical responses to second generation androgen signaling inhibitors (e.g., enzalutamide) in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) are variable and transient, and are associated with dose limiting toxicities, including rare but severe CNS effects. We hypothesized that changes to iron metabolism coincident with more advanced disease might be leveraged for tumor-selective delivery of antiandrogen therapy. Using the recently described chemical probes SiRhoNox and 18F-TRX in mCRPC models, we found elevated Fe2+ to be a common feature of mCRPC in vitro and in vivo. We next synthesized ferrous-iron activatable drug conjugates of second and third-generation antiandrogens and found these conjugates possessed comparable or enhanced antiproliferative activity across mCRPC cell line models. Mouse pharmacokinetic studies showed that these prototype antiandrogen conjugates are stable in vivo and limited exposure to conjugate or free antiandrogen in the brain. Our results reveal elevated Fe2+ to be a feature of mCRPC that might be leveraged to improve the tolerability and efficacy of antiandrogen therapy.
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- Ryan L Gonciarz
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94158, United States; Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94158, United States.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94158, United States; Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94158, United States.
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Evans MJ, Malcom JW. Recovery units under the Endangered Species Act should be used more widely. Front Conserv Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.3389/fcosc.2022.1018159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Recovering species is the main goal of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In the face of limited conservation budgets, diverse tools are needed to efficiently recover species. Recovery units may be one such tool - designated portions of a species’ range that must be recovered individually before an entire species can be considered recovered. Recovery units allow for spatial flexibility in developing recovery goals and may be used in regulatory decisions such as ESA section 7 consultation. Despite the advantages, very little information exists on how recovery units have been developed and used. We mined available public data to determine the number and types of species for which recovery units have been designated; evaluated species and geographic characteristics associated with recovery unit designation; and examined how recovery units have been used in implementing the ESA, such as during consultation. We found 49 listed species had designated recovery units through December 2017, and that these species typically had relatively large ranges and were well-studied. We found taxonomic biases in recovery unit designation as well, with fish species being disproportionately likely to have recovery units and plants disproportionately less. These species were also more likely to have their recovery units considered and used in subsequent ESA implementation – a probability that decreased as time since unit designation passed. Improvements in recovery priority numbers among species with recovery units indicate that the theoretical benefits of this tool may have translated to improved status. These data indicate that recovery units could be applied to additional wide-ranging species to improve recovery under the ESA.
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Tran VL, Bouleau A, Nozach H, Richard M, Chevaleyre C, Dubois S, Kereselidze D, Kuhnast B, Evans MJ, Specklin S, Truillet C. Impact of Radiolabeling Strategies on the Pharmacokinetics and Distribution of an Anti-PD-L1 PET Ligand. Mol Pharm 2022; 19:3673-3680. [PMID: 35998011 DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.2c00497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Molecular imaging with PET offers an alternative method to quantify programmed-death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) to accurately select patients for immunotherapies. More and more clinical and preclinical trials involve radiolabeling of antibody fragments for their desirably fast clearance and high tumor penetration. As the radiolabeling strategy can significantly impact pharmacokinetics and biodistribution, we explored in this work a site-specific radiofluorination strategy on an anti-PD-L1 fragment antigen-binding (Fab) and compared the pharmacokinetic and biodistribution properties with the same Fab labeled using stochastic radiolabeling chemistry. We applied an enzymatic bioconjugation mediated by a variant of the lipoic acid ligase (LplA) that promotes the formation of an amide bond between a short peptide cloned onto the C terminus of the Fab. A synthetic analogue of the enzyme natural substrate, lipoic acid, was radiolabeled with fluorine-18 for site-specific conjugation by LplA. We compared the biodistribution of the site-specifically labeled Fab with a stochastically labeled Fab on lysine side chains in tumor-bearing mice. The two methods of fluorination demonstrate a comparable whole-body biodistribution. The 89Zr-labeled Fab had different biodistribution compared to either 18F-labeled Fab. We attribute the difference to [89Zr] metabolism. Fab-LAP-[18F]FPyOctA therefore reflects better the true pharmacokinetic profile of the Fab.
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- Vu Long Tran
- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Inserm, BioMaps, SHFJ, Orsay 91400, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Inserm, BioMaps, SHFJ, Orsay 91400, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, DMTS, SIMoS, CEA-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX 91191, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Inserm, BioMaps, SHFJ, Orsay 91400, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Inserm, BioMaps, SHFJ, Orsay 91400, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, DMTS, SIMoS, CEA-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX 91191, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Inserm, BioMaps, SHFJ, Orsay 91400, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Inserm, BioMaps, SHFJ, Orsay 91400, France
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, California 94107, United States
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Inserm, BioMaps, SHFJ, Orsay 91400, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Inserm, BioMaps, SHFJ, Orsay 91400, France
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Bouleau A, Nozach H, Dubois S, Kereselidze D, Chevaleyre C, Wang CI, Evans MJ, Lebon V, Maillère B, Truillet C. Optimizing Immuno-PET Imaging of Tumor PD-L1 Expression: Pharmacokinetic, Biodistribution, and Dosimetric Comparisons of 89Zr-Labeled Anti-PD-L1 Antibody Formats. J Nucl Med 2022; 63:1259-1265. [PMID: 34933891 PMCID: PMC9364342 DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.121.262967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2021] [Accepted: 11/30/2021] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
Abstract
PET imaging of programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) may help to noninvasively predict and monitor responses to anti-programmed cell death 1/anti-PD-L1 immunotherapies. In this study, we compared the imaging characteristics of 3 radioligands derived from the anti-PD-L1 IgG1 complement 4 (C4). In addition to the IgG C4, we produced a fragment antigen-binding (Fab) C4, as well as a double-mutant IgG C4 (H310A/H435Q) with minimal affinity for the murine neonatal Fc receptor. Methods: The pharmacokinetics, biodistribution, and dosimetry of the 3 89Zr-labeled C4 ligands were compared by longitudinal PET/CT imaging in nude mice bearing subcutaneous human non-small cell lung cancer xenografts with positive (H1975 model) or negative (A549 model) endogenous PD-L1 expression. Results: The C4 radioligands substantially accumulated in PD-L1-positive tumors but not in PD-L1-negative tumors or in blocked PD-L1-positive tumors, confirming their PD-L1-specific tumor targeting. 89Zr-Fab C4 and 89Zr-IgG C4 (H310A/H435Q) were rapidly eliminated compared with 89Zr-IgG C4. Consequently, maximal tumor-to-muscle ratios were obtained earlier, at 4 h after injection for 89Zr-Fab C4 (ratio, ∼6) and 24 h after injection for 89Zr-IgG C4 (H310A/H435Q) (ratio, ∼9), versus 48 h after injection for 89Zr-IgG C4 (ratio, ∼8). Background activity in nontumor tissues was low, except for high kidney retention of 89Zr-Fab C4 and persistent liver accumulation of 89Zr-IgG C4 (H310A/H435Q) compared with 89Zr-IgG C4. Dosimetry estimates suggested that the C4 radioligands would yield organ-absorbed doses tolerable for repeated clinical PET imaging studies. Conclusion: This study highlights the potential of designing radioligands with shorter pharmacokinetics for PD-L1 immuno-PET imaging in a preclinical model and encourages further clinical translation of such radioligands.
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- Alizée Bouleau
- Paris-Saclay University, CEA, CNRS, INSERM, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging Lab, Orsay, France
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- Paris-Saclay University, CEA, INRAE, Medicines and Healthcare Technologies Department, SIMoS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Paris-Saclay University, CEA, INRAE, Medicines and Healthcare Technologies Department, SIMoS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Paris-Saclay University, CEA, CNRS, INSERM, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging Lab, Orsay, France
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- Paris-Saclay University, CEA, CNRS, INSERM, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging Lab, Orsay, France
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- Singapore Immunology Network, A*STAR, Immunos, Singapore, Singapore; and
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Paris-Saclay University, CEA, CNRS, INSERM, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging Lab, Orsay, France
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- Paris-Saclay University, CEA, INRAE, Medicines and Healthcare Technologies Department, SIMoS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Paris-Saclay University, CEA, CNRS, INSERM, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging Lab, Orsay, France
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Zhao N, Chopra S, Trepka K, Wang YH, Sakhamuri S, Hooshdaran N, Kim H, Zhuo J, Lim SA, Leung KK, Egusa EA, Zhu J, Zhang L, Foye A, Sriram R, Chan E, Seo Y, Feng FY, Small EJ, Chou J, Wells JA, Aggarwal R, Evans MJ. CUB Domain-Containing Protein 1 (CDCP1) Is a Target for Radioligand Therapy in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer, including PSMA Null Disease. Clin Cancer Res 2022; 28:3066-3075. [PMID: 35604681 PMCID: PMC9288514 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-21-3858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2021] [Revised: 03/07/2022] [Accepted: 05/17/2022] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
Abstract
PURPOSE With the improvement in overall survival with 177Lu-PSMA 617, radioligand therapy (RLT) is now a viable option for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). However, responses are variable, in part due to low PSMA expression in 30% of patients. Herein, we evaluated whether the cell surface protein CUB domain-containing protein 1 (CDCP1) can be exploited to treat mCRPC with RLT, including in PSMA-low subsets. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN CDCP1 levels were evaluated using RNA sequencing from 119 mCRPC biopsies. CDCP1 levels were assessed in 17 post-enzalutamide- or abiraterone-treated mCRPC biopsies, 12 patient-derived xenografts (PDX), and prostate cancer cell lines. 4A06, a recombinant human antibody that targets the CDCP1 ectodomain, was labeled with Zr-89 or Lu-177 and tested in tumor-bearing mice. RESULTS CDCP1 expression was observed in 90% of mCRPC biopsies, including small-cell neuroendocrine (SCNC) and adenocarcinomas with low FOLH1 (PSMA) levels. Fifteen of 17 evaluable mCRPC biopsies (85%) demonstrated membranous CDCP1 expression, and 4 of 17 (23%) had higher CDCP1 H-scores compared with PSMA. CDCP1 was expressed in 10 of 12 PDX samples. Bmax values of approximately 22,000, 6,200, and 2,800 fmol/mg were calculated for PC3, DU145, and C4-2B human prostate cancer cells, respectively. 89Zr-4A06 PET detected six human prostate cancer xenografts, including PSMA-low tumors. 177Lu-4A06 significantly suppressed growth of DU145 and C4-2B xenografts. CONCLUSIONS The data provide the first evidence supporting CDCP1-directed RLT to treat mCRPC. Expanded studies are warranted to determine whether CDCP1 is a viable drug target for patients with mCPRC.
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- Ning Zhao
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158.,Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
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Agarwal S, Decavel-Bueff E, Wang YH, Qin H, Santos RD, Evans MJ, Sriram R. Defining the Magnetic Resonance Features of Renal Lesions and Their Response to Everolimus in a Transgenic Mouse Model of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. Front Oncol 2022; 12:851192. [PMID: 35814396 PMCID: PMC9260108 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2022.851192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2022] [Accepted: 05/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is an inherited genetic disorder characterized by mutations in TSC1 or TSC2 class of tumor suppressers which impact several organs including the kidney. The renal manifestations are usually in the form of angiomyolipoma (AML, in 80% of the cases) and cystadenomas. mTOR inhibitors such as rapamycin and everolimus have shown efficacy in reducing the renal tumor burden. Early treatment prevents the progression of AML; however, the tumors regrow upon cessation of therapy implying a lifelong need for monitoring and management of this morbid disease. There is a critical need for development of imaging strategies to monitor response to therapy and progression of disease which will also facilitate development of newer targeted therapy. In this study we evaluated the potential of multiparametric 1H magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) to monitor tumor response to therapy in a preclinical model of TSC, the transgenic mouse A/J Tsc2+/-. We found 2-dimensional T2-weighted sequence with 0.5 mm slice thickness to be optimal for detecting renal lesions as small as 0.016 mm3. Baseline characterization of lesions with MRI to assess physiological parameters such as cellularity and perfusion is critical for distinguishing between cystic and solid lesions. Everolimus treatment for three weeks maintained tumor growth at 36% from baseline, while control tumors displayed steady growth and were 70% larger than baseline at the end of therapy. Apparent diffusion coefficient, T1 values and normalized T2 intensity changes were also indictive of response to treatment. Our results indicate that standardization and implementation of improved MR imaging protocols will significantly enhance the utility of mpMRI in determining the severity and composition of renal lesions for better treatment planning.
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- Shubhangi Agarwal
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
- *Correspondence: Renuka Sriram,
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Jiang H, Muir RK, Gonciarz RL, Olshen AB, Yeh I, Hann BC, Zhao N, Wang YH, Behr SC, Korkola JE, Evans MJ, Collisson EA, Renslo AR. Ferrous iron–activatable drug conjugate achieves potent MAPK blockade in KRAS-driven tumors. J Exp Med 2022; 219:213060. [PMID: 35262628 PMCID: PMC8916116 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20210739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2021] [Revised: 08/02/2021] [Accepted: 11/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
KRAS mutations drive a quarter of cancer mortality, and most are undruggable. Several inhibitors of the MAPK pathway are FDA approved but poorly tolerated at the doses needed to adequately extinguish RAS/RAF/MAPK signaling in the tumor cell. We found that oncogenic KRAS signaling induced ferrous iron (Fe2+) accumulation early in and throughout mutant KRAS-mediated transformation. We converted an FDA-approved MEK inhibitor into a ferrous iron–activatable drug conjugate (FeADC) and achieved potent MAPK blockade in tumor cells while sparing normal tissues. This innovation allowed sustainable, effective treatment of tumor-bearing animals, with tumor-selective drug activation, producing superior systemic tolerability. Ferrous iron accumulation is an exploitable feature of KRAS transformation, and FeADCs hold promise for improving the treatment of KRAS-driven solid tumors.
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- Honglin Jiang
- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
- Departments of Pathology and Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Center for Spatial Systems Biomedicine, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, OR
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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Lim SA, Zhou J, Martinko AJ, Wang YH, Filippova EV, Steri V, Wang D, Remesh SG, Liu J, Hann B, Kossiakoff AA, Evans MJ, Leung KK, Wells JA. Targeting a proteolytic neoepitope on CUB domain containing protein 1 (CDCP1) for RAS-driven cancers. J Clin Invest 2022; 132:e154604. [PMID: 35166238 PMCID: PMC8843743 DOI: 10.1172/jci154604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Accepted: 12/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Extracellular proteolysis is frequently dysregulated in disease and can generate proteoforms with unique neoepitopes not found in healthy tissue. Here, we demonstrate that Abs that selectively recognize a proteolytic neoepitope on CUB domain containing protein 1 (CDCP1) could enable more effective and safer treatments for solid tumors. CDCP1 is highly overexpressed in RAS-driven cancers, and its ectodomain is cleaved by extracellular proteases. Biochemical, biophysical, and structural characterization revealed that the 2 cleaved fragments of CDCP1 remain tightly associated with minimal proteolysis-induced conformational change. Using differential phage display, we generated recombinant Abs that are exquisitely selective to cleaved CDCP1 with no detectable binding to the uncleaved form. These Abs potently targeted cleaved CDCP1-expressing cancer cells as an Ab-drug conjugate, an Ab-radionuclide conjugate, and a bispecific T cell engager. In a syngeneic pancreatic tumor model, these cleaved-specific Abs showed tumor-specific localization and antitumor activity with superior safety profiles compared with a pan-CDCP1 approach. Targeting proteolytic neoepitopes could provide an orthogonal "AND" gate for improving the therapeutic index.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, and
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and
- Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
- Preclinical Therapeutics Core, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
- Preclinical Therapeutics Core, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
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- Preclinical Therapeutics Core, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and
- Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, and
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, California, USA
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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Kim H, Huang Y, Zhao N, Wang YH, Sakhamuri S, Chopra S, Hooshdaran N, Sriram R, Aggarwal R, Evans MJ. In Vivo Profiling with 18F-YJH08 Reveals Diverse Tissue Patterns of Antagonist/Glucocorticoid Receptor Interactions. Mol Pharm 2022; 19:704-709. [PMID: 35049307 DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.1c00833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Demonstrating target engagement in vivo is an important milestone in drug development, both to establish on target, on tissue interactions but also to identify potentially undesirable off tissue binding. The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is a long-studied yet vexing drug target that has recently re-emerged as a potential druggable driver of many solid tumor types including breast and prostate cancer, and several antagonists are currently in early phase clinical trials. Since GR is also ubiquitously expressed in normal tissues, understanding antagonist/GR interactions in normal tissues and tumor is crucial to defining a therapeutic index. Herein, we demonstrate that the GR radioligand 18F-YJH08 can map drug/GR engagement in vivo. Profiling target engagement in vivo showed that the GR antagonists RU486 (mifepristone) and CORT125281 engaged GR in fewer normal tissues compared to ORIC-101 or the agonist dexamethasone. Furthermore, 18F-YJH08 detected GR in human prostate cancer tumor models and measured receptor binding by RU486. In summary, these data show for the first time that antagonist/GR interactions can be measured in vivo with 18F-YJH08, a finding with clinical relevance as GR antagonists and 11C-YJH08 are currently in clinical trials.
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- Hyunjung Kim
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Fujian Engineering Research Center of New Chinese lacquer Material, Ocean College, Minjiang University, Fuzhou 350108, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States.,Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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LaBarge LR, Evans MJ, Miller JRB, Cannataro G, Hunt C, Elbroch LM. Pumas
Puma concolor
as ecological brokers: a review of their biotic relationships. Mamm Rev 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/mam.12281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- Laura R. LaBarge
- Program in Evolution, Ecology and Behavior, Department of Environment and Sustainability, The State University of New York University at Buffalo Amherst NY14260USA
- Center for Conservation Innovation Defenders of Wildlife Washington DC20036USA
- Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Bücklestraße 5 Konstanz DE78467Germany
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- Center for Conservation Innovation Defenders of Wildlife Washington DC20036USA
- Department of Environmental Science and Policy George Mason University 4400 University Dr Fairfax VA22030USA
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- Center for Conservation Innovation Defenders of Wildlife Washington DC20036USA
- Department of Environmental Science and Policy George Mason University 4400 University Dr Fairfax VA22030USA
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- Center for Conservation Innovation Defenders of Wildlife Washington DC20036USA
- Conservation, Management and Welfare Sciences Association of Zoos and Aquariums 8403 Colesville Rd., Suite 710 Silver Spring MD20910‐3314USA
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- Field Conservation Defenders of Wildlife Washington DC20036USA
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Wei J, Oh DY, Evans MJ. Preparation of Radiolabeled Antibodies for Nuclear Medicine Applications in Immuno-Oncology. Methods Mol Biol 2022; 2393:829-839. [PMID: 34837214 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1803-5_44] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
The mixed patient responses to antibodies targeting immune checkpoint proteins (e.g., CTLA-4, PD-1, PD-L1) have generated tremendous interest in discovering biomarkers that predict which patients will best respond to these treatments. To complement molecular biomarkers obtained from biopsies, the nuclear medicine community has begun developing radiopharmaceuticals that may provide a more holistic assessment of the biological character of all disease sites in patients. On the leading edge of clinical translation are a spectrum of radiolabeled antibodies targeting immune checkpoint proteins or T cell-specific antigens. The adoption of these reagents requires development of efficient and versatile methods for antibody bioconjugation and radiochemistry. We report herein protocols for the preparation of an anti-PD-L1 IgG1 (termed C4) labeled with zirconium-89. The approach is time and cost economical, high yielding, and adaptable to numerous antibody clones and platforms of interest to the immune-oncology community. Included also are representative methods for characterizing the pharmacology of the antibody post bioconjugation, and conducting an in vivo assessment of radiotracer biodistribution in tumor bearing mouse models.
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- Junnian Wei
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Evans MJ, Gibson A, Fielding H, Ohal P, Pandey P, Kumar A, Singh SK, Airikkala-Otter I, Abela-Ridder B, Gamble L, Handel I, Bronsvoort BMDC, Mellanby RJ, Mazeri S. Free-roaming dog population dynamics in Ranchi, India. Res Vet Sci 2022; 143:115-123. [PMID: 35007799 DOI: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2021.12.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2021] [Revised: 12/03/2021] [Accepted: 12/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Rabies causes approximately 20,000 human deaths in India each year. Nearly all of these occur following dog bites. Large-scale, high-coverage dog rabies vaccination campaigns are the cornerstone of rabies elimination strategies in both human and dog populations, although this is particularly challenging to achieve in India as a large proportion of the dog population are free-roaming and unowned. Further, little is known about free-roaming dog ecology in India which makes defining optimum vaccination strategies difficult. In this study, data collected using a mobile phone application during three annual mass vaccination and neutering (surgical sterilisation of both males and females) campaigns of free-roaming dogs in Ranchi, India (during which a total of 43,847 vaccinations, 26,213 neuter surgeries and 28,172 re-sight observations were made) were interrogated, using two novel approaches to estimate the proportion of neutered dogs that were lost from the city (assumed due to mortality or migration) between campaign years. Analysis revealed high losses of neutered dogs each year, ranging from 25.3% (28.2-22.8) to 55.8% (57.0-54.6). We also estimated that the total population declined by 12.58% (9.89-15.03) over the three-year period. This demonstrates that there is a high turnover of free-roaming dogs and that despite neutering a large number of dogs in an annual sterilisation campaign, the decline in population size was modest over a three-year time period. These findings have significant implications for the planning of rabies vaccination campaigns and population management programmes as well as highlighting the need for further research into the demographics of free-roaming, unowned dogs in India.
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- M J Evans
- The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, The University of Edinburgh, Roslin, Midlothian, UK.
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- The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Roslin, Midlothian, UK; Mission Rabies, Cranborne, Dorset, UK
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- The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, The University of Edinburgh, Roslin, Midlothian, UK
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- Hope & Animal Trust, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
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- Department of Agriculture Animal Husbandry and Cooperative, (Animal Husbandry Division) Govt. of Jharkhand, India
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- Hope & Animal Trust, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
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- Hope & Animal Trust, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
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- WVS India, Gramya Bhavan/RDO-Building Complex, Aruvankadu, 643202 Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Genève, Switzerland
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- Mission Rabies, Cranborne, Dorset, UK
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- The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, The University of Edinburgh, Roslin, Midlothian, UK
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- The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, The University of Edinburgh, Roslin, Midlothian, UK; The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Roslin, Midlothian, UK
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- The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, The University of Edinburgh, Roslin, Midlothian, UK; The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Roslin, Midlothian, UK
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- The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, The University of Edinburgh, Roslin, Midlothian, UK; The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Roslin, Midlothian, UK
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Meher N, Seo K, Wang S, Bidkar AP, Fogarty M, Dhrona S, Huang X, Tang R, Blaha C, Evans MJ, Raleigh DR, Jun YW, VanBrocklin HF, Desai TA, Wilson DM, Ozawa T, Flavell RR. Synthesis and Preliminary Biological Assessment of Carborane-Loaded Theranostic Nanoparticles to Target Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2021; 13:54739-54752. [PMID: 34752058 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c16383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
Abstract
Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is an encouraging therapeutic modality for cancer treatment. Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is a cell membrane protein that is abundantly overexpressed in prostate cancer and can be targeted with radioligand therapies to stimulate clinical responses in patients. In principle, a spatially targeted neutron beam together with specifically targeted PSMA ligands could enable prostate cancer-targeted BNCT. Thus, we developed and tested PSMA-targeted poly(lactide-co-glycolide)-block-poly(ethylene glycol) (PLGA-b-PEG) nanoparticles (NPs) loaded with carborane and tethered to the radiometal chelator deferoxamine B (DFB) for simultaneous positron emission tomography (PET) imaging and selective delivery of boron to prostate cancer. Monomeric PLGA-b-PEGs were covalently functionalized with either DFB or the PSMA ligand ACUPA. Different nanoparticle formulations were generated by nanoemulsification of the corresponding unmodified and DFB- or ACUPA-modified monomers in varying percent fractions. The nanoparticles were efficiently labeled with 89Zr and were subjected to in vitro and in vivo evaluation. The optimized DFB(25)ACUPA(75) NPs exhibited strong in vitro binding to PSMA in direct binding and competition radioligand binding assays in PSMA(+) PC3-Pip cells. [89Zr]DFB(25) NPs and [89Zr]DFB(25)ACUPA(75) NPs were injected to mice with bilateral PSMA(-) PC3-Flu and PSMA(+) PC3-Pip dual xenografts. The NPs demonstrated twofold superior accumulation in PC3-Pip tumors to that of PC3-Flu tumors with a tumor/blood ratio of 25; however, no substantial effect of the ACUPA ligands was detected. Moreover, fast release of carborane from the NPs was observed, resulting in a low boron delivery to tumors in vivo. In summary, these data demonstrate the synthesis, characterization, and initial biological assessment of PSMA-targeted, carborane-loaded PLGA-b-PEG nanoparticles and establish the foundation for future efforts to enable their best use in vivo.
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- Niranjan Meher
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0981, United States
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158-2517, United States
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0981, United States
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158-2517, United States
- Department of Otolaryngology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0981, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0981, United States
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0981, United States
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158-2517, United States
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Zhao N, Bardine C, Lourenço AL, Wang YH, Huang Y, Cleary SJ, Wilson DM, Oh DY, Fong L, Looney MR, Evans MJ, Craik CS. In Vivo Measurement of Granzyme Proteolysis from Activated Immune Cells with PET. ACS Cent Sci 2021; 7:1638-1649. [PMID: 34729407 PMCID: PMC8554823 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.1c00529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2021] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
Abstract
The biology of human granzymes remains enigmatic in part due to our inability to probe their functions outside of in vitro assays or animal models with divergent granzyme species. We hypothesize that the biology of human granzymes could be better elaborated with a translational imaging technology to reveal the contexts in which granzymes are secreted and biochemically active in vivo. Here, we advance toward this goal by engineering a Granzyme targeting Restricted Interaction Peptide specific to family member B (GRIP B) to measure secreted granzyme B (GZMB) biochemistry with positron emission tomography. A proteolytic cleavage of 64Cu-labeled GRIP B liberates a radiolabeled form of Temporin L, which sequesters the radioisotope by binding to adjacent phospholipid bilayers. Thus, at extended time points postinjection (i.e., hours, not seconds), tissue biodistribution of the radioisotope in vivo reflects relative units of the GZMB activity. As a proof of concept, we show in three syngeneic mouse cancer models that 64Cu-GRIP B detects GZMB from T cells activated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (CPI). Remarkably, the radiotracer detects the proteolysis within tumors but also in lymphoid tissue, where immune cells are activated by a systemic CPI. Control experiments with an uncleavable analogue of 64Cu-GRIP B and tumor imaging studies in germline GZMB knockout mice were applied to show that 64Cu-GRIP B is specific for GZMB proteolysis. Furthermore, we explored a potential noncytotoxic function for GZMB by applying 64Cu-GRIP B to a model of pulmonary inflammation. In summary, we demonstrate that granzyme biochemistry can be assessed in vivo using an imaging modality that can be scaled vertically into human subjects.
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- Ning Zhao
- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Medicine, Department of Laboratory
Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Medicine, Department of Laboratory
Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Medicine, Department of Laboratory
Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Medicine, Department of Laboratory
Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Medicine, Department of Laboratory
Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Medicine, Department of Laboratory
Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Medicine, Department of Laboratory
Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Medicine, Department of Laboratory
Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Medicine, Department of Laboratory
Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Medicine, Department of Laboratory
Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Medicine, Department of Laboratory
Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Medicine, Department of Laboratory
Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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Tran V, Lux F, Tournier N, Jego B, Maître X, Anisorac M, Comtat C, Jan S, Selmeczi K, Evans MJ, Tillement O, Kuhnast B, Truillet C. Quantitative Tissue Pharmacokinetics and EPR Effect of AGuIX Nanoparticles: A Multimodal Imaging Study in an Orthotopic Glioblastoma Rat Model and Healthy Macaque. Adv Healthc Mater 2021; 10:e2100656. [PMID: 34212539 DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202100656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2021] [Revised: 05/29/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
AGuIX are emerging radiosensitizing nanoparticles (NPs) for precision radiotherapy (RT) under clinical evaluation (Phase 2). Despite being accompanied by MRI thanks to the presence of gadolinium (Gd) at its surface, more sensitive and quantifiable imaging technique should further leverage the full potential of this technology. In this study, it is shown that 89 Zr can be labeled on such NPs directly for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging with a simple and scalable method. The stability of such complexes is remarkable in vitro and in vivo. Using a glioblastoma orthotopic rat model, it is shown that injected 89 Zr-AGuIX is detectable inside the tumor for at least 1 week. Interestingly, the particles seem to efficiently infiltrate the tumor even in necrotic areas, which places great hope for the treatment of radioresistant tumor. Lastly, the first PET/MR whole-body imaging is performed in non-human primate (NHP), which further demonstrates the translational potential of these bimodal NP.
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- Vu‐Long Tran
- Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale Multimodale Paris Saclay CEA/INSERM/CNRS/Université Paris‐Saclay Orsay 91401 France
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- Institut Lumière Matière Université Claude Bernard Lyon I CNRS UMR 5306 Villeurbanne 69622 France
- Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) Paris France
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- Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale Multimodale Paris Saclay CEA/INSERM/CNRS/Université Paris‐Saclay Orsay 91401 France
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- Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale Multimodale Paris Saclay CEA/INSERM/CNRS/Université Paris‐Saclay Orsay 91401 France
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- Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale Multimodale Paris Saclay CEA/INSERM/CNRS/Université Paris‐Saclay Orsay 91401 France
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- Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale Multimodale Paris Saclay CEA/INSERM/CNRS/Université Paris‐Saclay Orsay 91401 France
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- Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale Multimodale Paris Saclay CEA/INSERM/CNRS/Université Paris‐Saclay Orsay 91401 France
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging University of California San Francisco 505 Parnassus Ave San Francisco CA 94143 USA
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California San Francisco 505 Parnassus Ave San Francisco CA 94143 USA
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center University of California San Francisco 505 Parnassus Ave San Francisco CA 94143 USA
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- Institut Lumière Matière Université Claude Bernard Lyon I CNRS UMR 5306 Villeurbanne 69622 France
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- Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale Multimodale Paris Saclay CEA/INSERM/CNRS/Université Paris‐Saclay Orsay 91401 France
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- Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale Multimodale Paris Saclay CEA/INSERM/CNRS/Université Paris‐Saclay Orsay 91401 France
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Evans MJ, Malcom JW. Supporting habitat conservation with automated change detection in Google Earth Engine. Conserv Biol 2021; 35:1151-1161. [PMID: 33295052 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2020] [Revised: 11/04/2020] [Accepted: 11/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
A significant limitation in biodiversity conservation has been the effective implementation of laws and regulations that protect species' habitats from degradation. Flexible, efficient, and effective monitoring and enforcement methods are needed to help conservation policies realize their full benefit. As remote sensing data become more numerous and accessible, they can be used to identify and quantify land-cover changes and habitat loss. However, these data remain underused for systematic conservation monitoring in part because of a lack of simple tools. We adapted 2 algorithms that automatically identify differences between pairs of images. We used free, publicly available satellite data to evaluate their ability to rapidly detect land-cover changes in a variety of land-cover types. We compared algorithm predictions with ground-truthed results at 100 sites of known change in the United States. We also compared algorithm predictions to manually created polygons delineating anthropogenic change in 4 case studies involving imperiled species' habitat: oil and gas development in the range of the Greater Sage Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus); sand mining operations in the range of the dunes sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus arenicolus); loss of Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) coastal habitat after Hurricane Michael (2018); and residential development in St. Andrew beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus peninsularis) habitat. Both algorithms effectively discriminated between pixels corresponding to land-cover change and unchanged pixels as indicated by area under a receiver operating characteristic curve >0.90. The algorithm that was most effective differed among the case-study habitat types, and both effectively delineated habitat loss as indicated by low omission (min. = 0.0) and commission (min. = 0.0) rates, and moderate polygon overlap (max. = 47%). Our results showed how these algorithms can be used to help close the implementation gap of monitoring and enforcement in biodiversity conservation. We provide a free online tool that can be used to run these analyses (https://conservationist.io/habitatpatrol).
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- Michael J Evans
- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, 4400 University Dr., Fairfax, DC, 20030, U.S.A
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- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, 4400 University Dr., Fairfax, DC, 20030, U.S.A
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Nuzum D, Fitzgerald B, Evans MJ, O'Donoghue K. Maternity Healthcare Chaplains and Perinatal Post-Mortem Support and Understanding in the United Kingdom and Ireland: An Exploratory Study. J Relig Health 2021; 60:1924-1936. [PMID: 33415602 DOI: 10.1007/s10943-020-01176-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/26/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Perinatal autopsy rates have declined significantly in recent decades. There is a lack of consensus concerning the potential religious influences for bereaved parents in their decision making process for post-mortem. This online study of British and Irish maternity healthcare chaplains explored their understanding of general and local perinatal post-mortem procedures and their experiences in the support of parents. Participants included Christian, Muslim and non-faith chaplains. No chaplain identified any religious prohibition to perinatal post-mortem. A majority of chaplains reported that they had been asked about post-mortem by parents; only a minority felt adequately prepared. A key recommendation is that following appropriate training chaplains may be well placed to support colleagues and parents during the decision making process.
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- D Nuzum
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College Cork, Cork University Maternity Hospital, Wilton, Cork, Ireland.
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- Department of Histopathology, Cork University Hospital, Wilton, Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Pathology, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Honorary Professor, Department of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College Cork, Cork University Maternity Hospital, Wilton, Cork, Ireland
- Irish Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research (INFANT), University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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Huang Y, Zhao N, Wang YH, Truillet C, Wei J, Parker MFL, Blecha JE, Drake CR, VanBrocklin HF, Garrido-Ruiz D, Jacobson MP, Aggarwal R, Behr SC, Flavell RR, Wilson DM, Seo Y, Evans MJ. The Synthesis and Structural Requirements for Measuring Glucocorticoid Receptor Expression In Vivo with (±)- 11C-YJH08 PET. J Nucl Med 2021; 62:723-731. [PMID: 32887758 DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.120.249755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2020] [Accepted: 08/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Noninvasive methods to study glucocorticoid receptor (GR) signaling are urgently needed to elaborate the complexity of GR signaling in normal physiology and human disorders, as well as to identify selective GR modulators to treat diseases. Here, we report evidence supporting translational studies with (±)-11C-5-(4-fluorobenzyl)-10-methoxy-2,2,4-trimethyl-2,5-dihydro-1H-chromeno[3,4-f]-quinoline ((±)-11C-YJH08), a radioligand for PET that engages the ligand binding domain on GR. Methods: (±)-11C-YJH08 was synthesized by reacting the phenol precursor with 11C-methyl iodide. The biodistribution was studied in vivo. Specific binding was tested in vivo with adrenalectomy and ligand competition. A library of analogs was synthesized and studied in vitro and in vivo to understand the (±)-11C-YJH08 structure-activity relationship. Rodent dosimetry studies were performed to estimate the human-equivalent doses of (±)-11C-YJH08. Results: (±)-11C-YJH08 was synthesized by reaction of the phenolic precursor with 11C-methyl iodide, giving a radiochemical yield of 51.7% ± 4.7% (decay-corrected to starting 11C-methyl iodide). Specific binding was observed in many tissues, including the brain. An analysis of the (±)-YJH08 structure-activity relationship showed that (R)- and (S)-enantiomers are equally avid for GR by occupying discrete binding modes. A focused chemical screen revealed that the aryl fluoride motif on YJH08 is essential for high-affinity GR binding in vitro, high tissue uptake in vivo, and efficient passage across the blood-brain barrier. Lastly, we performed dosimetry studies on rodents, from which we estimated the human-equivalent doses of (±)-11C-YJH08 to be commensurate with the widely used 11C and 18F tracers. Conclusion: These studies reveal the molecular determinants of a high-affinity and high-selectivity ligand-receptor interaction and support the use of (±)-11C-YJH08 PET to make the first measurements of GR expression in human subjects.
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- Yangjie Huang
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Imagerie Moleculaire in Vivo, INSERM, CEA, Université Paris Sud, CNRS, Universite Paris Saclay, CEA-Service Hospitalier Frederic Joliot, Orsay, France
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; and
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; and
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.,Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California .,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.,Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; and
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Coelho AA, Chater PA, Evans MJ. Generating the atomic pair distribution function without instrument or emission profile contributions. J Appl Crystallogr 2021. [DOI: 10.1107/s1600576721000765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
A method for generating the atomic pair distribution function (PDF) from powder diffraction data by the removal of instrument contributions, such as Kα2 from laboratory instruments or peak asymmetry from neutron time-of-flight data, has been implemented in the computer programs TOPAS and TOPAS-Academic. The resulting PDF is sharper, making it easier to identify structural parameters. The method fits peaks to the reciprocal-space diffraction pattern data whilst maximizing the intensity of a background function. The fit to the raw data is made `perfect' by including a peak at each data point of the diffraction pattern. Peak shapes are not changed during refinement and the process is a slight modification of the deconvolution procedure of Coelho [J. Appl. Cryst. (2018), 51, 112–123]. Fitting to the raw data and subsequently using the calculated pattern as an estimation of the underlying signal reduces the effects of division by small numbers during atomic scattering factor and polarization corrections. If the peak shape is sufficiently accurate then the fitting process should also be able to determine the background if the background intensity is maximized; the resulting calculated pattern minus background should then comprise coherent scattering from the sample. Importantly, the background is not allowed complete freedom; instead, it comprises a scan of an empty capillary sample holder with a maximum of two additional parameters to vary its shape. Since this coherent scattering is a calculated pattern, it can be easily recalculated without instrumental aberrations such as capillary sample aberration or Kα2 from laboratory emission profiles. Additionally, data reduction anomalies such as incorrect integration of data from two-dimensional detectors, resulting in peak position errors, can be easily corrected. Multiplicative corrections such as polarization and atomic scattering factors are also performed. Once corrected, the pattern can be scaled to produce the total scattering structure factor F(Q) and from there the sine transform is applied to obtain the pair distribution function G(r).
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Seo Y, Khalighi MM, Wangerin KA, Deller TW, Wang YH, Jivan S, Kohi MP, Aggarwal R, Flavell RR, Behr SC, Evans MJ. Quantitative and Qualitative Improvement of Low-Count [ 68Ga]Citrate and [ 90Y]Microspheres PET Image Reconstructions Using Block Sequential Regularized Expectation Maximization Algorithm. Mol Imaging Biol 2021; 22:208-216. [PMID: 30993558 DOI: 10.1007/s11307-019-01347-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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PURPOSE There are several important positron emission tomography (PET) imaging scenarios that require imaging with very low photon statistics, for which both quantitative accuracy and visual quality should not be neglected. For example, PET imaging with the low photon statistics is closely related to active efforts to significantly reduce radiation exposure from radiopharmaceuticals. We investigated two examples of low-count PET imaging: (a) imaging [90Y]microsphere radioembolization that suffers the very small positron emission fraction of Y-90's decay processes, and (b) cancer imaging with [68Ga]citrate with uptake time of 3-4 half-lives, necessary for visualizing tumors. In particular, we investigated a type of penalized likelihood reconstruction algorithm, block sequential regularized expectation maximization (BSREM), for improving both image quality and quantitative accuracy of these low-count PET imaging cases. PROCEDURES The NEMA/IEC Body phantom filled with aqueous solution of Y-90 or Ga-68 was scanned to mimic the low-count scenarios of corresponding patient data acquisitions on a time-of-flight (TOF) PET/magnetic resonance imaging system. Contrast recovery, background variation, and signal-to-noise ratio were evaluated in different sets of count densities using both conventional TOF ordered subset expectation (TOF-OSEM) and TOF-BSREM algorithms. The regularization parameter, beta, in BSREM that controls the tradeoff between image noise and resolution was evaluated to find a value for improved confidence in image interpretation. Visual quality assessment of the images obtained from patients administered with [68Ga]citrate (n = 6) was performed. We also made preliminary visual image quality assessment for one patient with [90Y]microspheres. In Y-90 imaging, the effect of 511-keV energy window selection for minimizing the number of random events was also evaluated. RESULTS Quantitatively, phantom images reconstructed with TOF-BSREM showed improved contrast recovery, background variation, and signal-to-noise ratio values over images reconstructed with TOF-OSEM. Both phantom and patient studies of delayed imaging of [68Ga]citrate show that TOF-BSREM with beta = 500 gives the best tradeoff between image noise and image resolution based on visual assessment by the readers. The NEMA-IQ phantom study with [90Y]microspheres shows that the narrow energy window (460-562 keV) recovers activity concentrations in small spheres better than the regular energy window (425-650 keV) with the beta value of 2000 using the TOF-BSREM algorithm. For the images obtained from patients with [68Ga]citrate using TOF-BSREM with beta = 500, the visual analogue scale (VAS) was improved by 17 % and the Likert score was increased by 1 point on average, both in comparison to corresponding scores for images reconstructed using TOF-OSEM. CONCLUSION Our investigation shows that the TOF-BSREM algorithm improves the image quality and quantitative accuracy in low-count PET imaging scenarios. However, the beta value in this algorithm needed to be adjusted for each radiopharmaceutical and counting statistics at the time of scans.
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- Youngho Seo
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0946, USA. .,Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. .,UC Berkeley - UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, California, CA, USA. .,Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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- GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, USA.,Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0946, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0946, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0946, USA.,Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0946, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0946, USA.,Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Evans MJ, Chaudhry UN, Costa-Júnior LM, Hamer K, Leeson SR, Sargison ND. A 4 year observation of gastrointestinal nematode egg counts, nemabiomes and the benzimidazole resistance genotypes of Teladorsagia circumcincta on a Scottish sheep farm. Int J Parasitol 2021; 51:393-403. [PMID: 33460620 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2020.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2020] [Revised: 10/21/2020] [Accepted: 10/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Anthelmintic resistance threatens the sustainability of sheep production globally. Advice regarding strategies to reduce the development of anthelmintic resistance incorporates the outcomes of modelling exercises. Further understanding of gastrointestinal nematode species diversity, and population dynamics and genetics (which may vary between species) is required to refine these models; and field studies combining faecal egg outputs, species composition and resistance genetics are needed to calibrate them. In this study, faecal samples were taken from ewes and lambs on a commercial farm in south-eastern Scotland at approximately 3 t-4 week intervals between spring and autumn over a period of 4 years. Faecal egg counts were performed on these samples, and L3 were collected from pooled coprocultures. Deep amplicon sequencing was used to determine both the species composition of these L3 and the proportions of benzimidazole-resistant single nucleotide polymorphisms in the isotype-1 β-tubulin locus of the predominant species, Teladorsagia circumcincta L3. Despite consistent management throughout the study, the results show variation in gastrointestinal nematode species composition with time and between age groups, that was potentially associated with weather conditions. The F200Y benzimidazole resistance mutation is close to genetic fixation in the T. circumcincta population on this farm. There was no evidence of variation in isotype-1 β-tubulin single nucleotide polymorphisms frequency between age groups, and no genetic evidence of reversion to benzimidazole susceptibility, despite targeted benzimidazole usage. This study highlights the need to include speciation when investigating gastrointestinal nematode epidemiology and anthelmintic resistance, and serves as an example of how genetic data may be analysed alongside species diversity and faecal egg counts, when markers for other anthelmintic classes are identified.
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- M J Evans
- Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian, UK.
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- Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian, UK
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- Laboratory of Parasite Control, Department of Pathology, Center for Biological and Health Sciences, Federal University of Maranhão, São Luis, MA, Brazil
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- Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian, UK; School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, Garscube Campus, Glasgow, UK
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- UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bush Estate, Penicuik, Midlothian, UK
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- Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian, UK
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Kalita M, Villanueva-Meyer J, Ohkawa Y, Kalyanaraman C, Chen K, Mohamed E, Parker MFL, Jacobson MP, Phillips JJ, Evans MJ, Wilson DM. Synthesis and Screening of α-Xylosides in Human Glioblastoma Cells. Mol Pharm 2021; 18:451-460. [PMID: 33315406 PMCID: PMC8483608 DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.0c00839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) such as heparan sulfate and chondroitin sulfate decorate all mammalian cell surfaces. These mucopolysaccharides act as coreceptors for extracellular ligands, regulating cell signaling, growth, proliferation, and adhesion. In glioblastoma, the most common type of primary malignant brain tumor, dysregulated GAG biosynthesis results in altered chain length, sulfation patterns, and the ratio of contributing monosaccharides. These events contribute to the loss of normal cellular function, initiating and sustaining malignant growth. Disruption of the aberrant cell surface GAGs with small molecule inhibitors of GAG biosynthetic enzymes is a potential therapeutic approach to blocking the rogue signaling and proliferation in glioma, including glioblastoma. Previously, 4-azido-xylose-α-UDP sugar inhibited both xylosyltransferase (XYLT-1) and β-1,4-galactosyltransferase-7 (β-GALT-7)-the first and second enzymes of GAG biosynthesis-when microinjected into a cell. In another study, 4-deoxy-4-fluoro-β-xylosides inhibited β-GALT-7 at 1 mM concentration in vitro. In this work, we seek to solve the enduring problem of drug delivery to human glioma cells at low concentrations. We developed a library of hydrophobic, presumed prodrugs 4-deoxy-4-fluoro-2,3-dibenzoyl-(α- or β-) xylosides and their corresponding hydrophilic inhibitors of XYLT-1 and β-GALT-7 enzymes. The prodrugs were designed to be activatable by carboxylesterase enzymes overexpressed in glioblastoma. Using a colorimetric MTT assay in human glioblastoma cell lines, we identified a prodrug-drug pair (4-nitrophenyl-α-xylosides) as lead drug candidates. The candidates arrest U251 cell growth at an IC50 = 380 nM (prodrug), 122 μM (drug), and U87 cells at IC50 = 10.57 μM (prodrug). Molecular docking studies were consistent with preferred binding of the α- versus β-nitro xyloside conformer to XYLT-1 and β-GALT-7 enzymes.
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- Mausam Kalita
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Department of Neurological Surgery, Brain Tumor Center University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Brain Tumor Center University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Brain Tumor Center University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Brain Tumor Center University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Brain Tumor Center University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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Wang S, Li J, Hua J, Su Y, Beckford-Vera DR, Zhao W, Jayaraman M, Huynh TL, Zhao N, Wang YH, Huang Y, Qin F, Shen S, Gioeli D, Dreicer R, Sriram R, Egusa EA, Chou J, Feng FY, Aggarwal R, Evans MJ, Seo Y, Liu B, Flavell RR, He J. Molecular Imaging of Prostate Cancer Targeting CD46 Using ImmunoPET. Clin Cancer Res 2020; 27:1305-1315. [PMID: 33293372 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-20-3310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2020] [Revised: 10/19/2020] [Accepted: 12/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
PURPOSE We recently identified CD46 as a novel therapeutic target in prostate cancer. In this study, we developed a CD46-targeted PET radiopharmaceutical, [89Zr]DFO-YS5, and evaluated its performance for immunoPET imaging in murine prostate cancer models. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN [89Zr]DFO-YS5 was prepared and its in vitro binding affinity for CD46 was measured. ImmunoPET imaging was conducted in male athymic nu/nu mice bearing DU145 [AR-, CD46+, prostate-specific membrane antigen-negative (PSMA-)] or 22Rv1 (AR+, CD46+, PSMA+) tumors, and in NOD/SCID gamma mice bearing patient-derived adenocarcinoma xenograft, LTL-331, and neuroendocrine prostate cancers, LTL-331R and LTL-545. RESULTS [89Zr]DFO-YS5 binds specifically to the CD46-positive human prostate cancer DU145 and 22Rv1 xenografts. In biodistribution studies, the tumor uptake of [89Zr]DFO-YS5 was 13.3 ± 3.9 and 11.2 ± 2.5 %ID/g, respectively, in DU145 and 22Rv1 xenografts, 4 days postinjection. Notably, [89Zr]DFO-YS5 demonstrated specific uptake in the PSMA- and AR-negative DU145 model. [89Zr]DFO-YS5 also showed uptake in the patient-derived LTL-331 and -331R models, with particularly high uptake in the LTL-545 neuroendocrine prostate cancer tumors (18.8 ± 5.3, 12.5 ± 1.8, and 32 ± 5.3 %ID/g in LTL-331, LTL-331R, and LTL-545, respectively, at 4 days postinjection). CONCLUSIONS [89Zr]DFO-YS5 is an excellent PET imaging agent across a panel of prostate cancer models, including in both adenocarcinoma and neuroendocrine prostate cancer, both cell line- and patient-derived xenografts, and both PSMA-positive and -negative tumors. It demonstrates potential for clinical translation as an imaging agent, theranostic platform, and companion biomarker in prostate cancer.
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- Sinan Wang
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.,Department of Nuclear Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.,Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chongqing University Cancer Hospital, Chongqing, P.R. China
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- Department of Anesthesia, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.,University of Virginia Cancer Center, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- University of Virginia Cancer Center, Charlottesville, Virginia.,Departments of Medicine and Urology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, California.,Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, California.,Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, California.,Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, California.,Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.,UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, California.,Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.,UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, California.,Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Anesthesia, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California. .,UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California. .,UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, California.,Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. .,University of Virginia Cancer Center, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Zhao N, Huang Y, Wang YH, Muir RK, Chen YC, Wei J, Hooshdaran N, Viswanath P, Seo Y, Ruggero D, Renslo AR, Evans MJ. Ferronostics: Measuring Tumoral Ferrous Iron with PET to Predict Sensitivity to Iron-Targeted Cancer Therapies. J Nucl Med 2020; 62:949-955. [PMID: 33246980 DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.120.252460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2020] [Accepted: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Although cancer has been known for decades to harbor an insatiable appetite for iron, only recently has the chemistry emerged to exploit this altered state therapeutically, by targeting the expanded cytosolic labile iron pool (LIP) of the cancer cell. The state of the art includes therapies that react with the LIP to produce cytotoxic radical species (in some cases also releasing drug payloads) and molecules that exacerbate LIP-induced oxidative stress to trigger ferroptosis. Effectively implementing LIP-targeted therapies in patients will require biomarkers to identify those tumors with the most elevated LIP and thus most likely to succumb to LIP-targeted interventions. Toward this goal, we tested whether tumor uptake of the novel LIP-sensing radiotracer 18F-TRX aligns with tumor sensitivity to LIP-targeted therapies. Methods: 18F-TRX uptake was assessed in vivo among 10 subcutaneous and orthotopic human xenograft models. Glioma and renal cell carcinoma were prioritized because these tumors have the highest relative expression levels of STEAP3, the oxidoreductase that reduces ferric iron to the ferrous oxidation state, in the Broad Institute Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia. The antitumor effects of the LIP-activated prodrug TRX-CBI, which releases the DNA alkylator CBI, were compared in mice bearing U251 or PC3 xenografts, tumors with high and intermediate levels of 18F-TRX uptake, respectively. Results: 18F-TRX showed a wide range of tumor accumulation. An antitumor assessment study showed that the growth of U251 xenografts, the model with the highest 18F-TRX uptake, was potently inhibited by TRX-CBI. Moreover, the antitumor effects against U251 were significantly greater than those observed for PC3 tumors, consistent with the relative 18F-TRX-determined LIP levels in tumors before therapy. Lastly, a dosimetry study showed that the estimated effective human doses for adult male and female mice were comparable to those of other 18F-based imaging probes. Conclusion: We report the first evidence-to our knowledge-that tumor sensitivity to an LIP-targeted therapy can be predicted with a molecular imaging tool. More generally, these data bring a new dimension to the nuclear theranostic model by showing a requirement for imaging to quantify, in situ, the concentration of a metastable bioanalyte toward predicting tumor drug sensitivity.
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- Ning Zhao
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; and
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; and.,Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; and
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; .,Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; and
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Flavell RR, Evans MJ, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Yom SS. Understanding Response to Immunotherapy Using Standard of Care and Experimental Imaging Approaches. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2020; 108:242-257. [PMID: 32585333 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2020.06.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2020] [Revised: 05/14/2020] [Accepted: 06/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Abstract
Immunotherapy has emerged as a standard of care in the treatment of a wide variety of malignancies, and it may be used in combination with other treatments including surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. However, a patient's imaging response to immunotherapy can be confounded by a variety of factors, including the appearance of pseudoprogression or the development of immune-related adverse events. In these situations, the immune response itself can mimic disease progression, potentially causing confusion in assessment and determination of further treatment. To address these challenges, a variety of approaches have been proposed to improve response assessment. First, revised definitions of response criteria, accounting for the appearance of pseudoprogression, can improve specificity of assessment. Second, advanced image processing including radiomics and machine learning analysis can be used to further analyze standard of care imaging data. In addition, new molecular imaging techniques can be used to directly interrogate immune cell activity or study aspects of the tumor microenvironment. These approaches have promise for improving the understanding of the response to immunotherapy and improving patient care.
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- Robert R Flavell
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Wei J, Wang YH, Lee CY, Truillet C, Oh DY, Xu Y, Ruggero D, Flavell RR, VanBrocklin HF, Seo Y, Craik CS, Fong L, Wang CI, Evans MJ. An Analysis of Isoclonal Antibody Formats Suggests a Role for Measuring PD-L1 with Low Molecular Weight PET Radiotracers. Mol Imaging Biol 2020; 22:1553-1561. [PMID: 32813112 DOI: 10.1007/s11307-020-01527-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2020] [Revised: 07/30/2020] [Accepted: 08/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Abstract
PURPOSE The swell of new and diverse radiotracers to predict or monitor tumor response to cancer immunotherapies invites the opportunity for comparative studies to identify optimal platforms. To probe the significance of antibody format on image quality for PD-L1 imaging, we developed and studied the biodistribution of a library of antibodies based on the anti-PD-L1 IgG1 clone C4. PROCEDURE A C4 minibody and scFv were cloned, expressed, and characterized. The antibodies were functionalized with desferrioxamine and radiolabeled with Zr-89 to enable a rigorous comparison with prior data collected using 89Zr-labeled C4 IgG1. The biodistribution of the radiotracers was evaluated in C57Bl6/J or nu/nu mice bearing B16F10 or H1975 tumors, respectively, which are models that represent high and low tumor autonomous PD-L1 expression. RESULTS The tumor uptake of the 89Zr-C4 minibody was higher than 89Zr-C4 scFv and equivalent to previous data collected using 89Zr-C4 IgG1. However, the peak tumors to normal tissue ratios were generally higher for 89Zr-C4 scFv compared with 89Zr-C4 minibody and 89Zr-IgG1. Moreover, an exploratory study showed that the rapid clearance of 89Zr-C4 scFv enabled detection of endogenous PD-L1 on a genetically engineered and orthotopic model of hepatocellular carcinoma. CONCLUSION In summary, these data support the use of low molecular weight constructs for PD-L1 imaging, especially for tumor types that manifest in abdominal organs that are obstructed by the clearance of high molecular weight radioligands.
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- Junnian Wei
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
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- Singapore Immunology Network, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 8A Biomedical Grove Immunos #03-06, Biopolis, Singapore, 138648, Singapore
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- Imagerie Moleculaire In Vivo, INSERM, CEA, Univ. Paris Sud, CNRS, Universite Paris Saclay, CEA-Service Hospitalier Frederic Joliot, 94100, Orsay, France
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
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- Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA.,Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA.,Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
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- Singapore Immunology Network, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 8A Biomedical Grove Immunos #03-06, Biopolis, Singapore, 138648, Singapore
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA. .,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA. .,Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA.
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Huang Y, Zhao N, Wang YH, Truillet C, Wei J, Blecha JE, VanBrocklin HF, Seo Y, Sayeed M, Feldman BJ, Aggarwal R, Behr SC, Shao H, Wilson DM, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Gestwicki JE, Evans MJ. A Novel Radioligand Reveals Tissue Specific Pharmacological Modulation of Glucocorticoid Receptor Expression with Positron Emission Tomography. ACS Chem Biol 2020; 15:1381-1391. [PMID: 32255605 PMCID: PMC8031368 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.9b01043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The
complexity of glucocorticoid receptor (GR) signaling cannot
be measured with direct tissue analysis in living subjects, which
has stifled our understanding of GR’s role in human physiology
or disease and impeded the development of selective GR modulators.
Herein, we report 18F-5-(4-fluorobenzyl)-10-methoxy-2,2,4-trimethyl-2,5-dihydro-1H-chromeno[3,4-f]quinoline (18F-YJH08), a radioligand that enables
noninvasive measurements of tissue autonomous GR expression levels in vivo with positron emission tomography (PET). YJH08 potently
binds GR (Ki ∼ 0.4 nM) with ∼100-fold
selectivity compared to nuclear hormone receptors in the same subfamily. 18F-YJH08 was prepared via Cu(OTf)2(py)4-mediated radiofluorination of an arylboronic acid
pinacol ester with ∼12% decay corrected radiochemical yield
from the starting 18F-fluoride ion. We applied treatment
with the tissue-wide GR agonist dexamethasone and adrenalectomy and
generated an adipocyte specific GR knockout mouse to show that 18F-YJH08 specifically binds GR in normal mouse tissues, including
those for which aberrant GR expression is thought to drive severe
diseases (e.g., brain, adipose tissue, kidneys). Remarkably, 18F-YJH08 PET also revealed that JG231, a potent and bioavailable
HSP70 inhibitor, selectively degrades GR only in the adipose tissue
of mice, a finding that foreshadows how GR targeted PET might be integrated
into drug discovery to screen for selective GR modulation at the tissue
level, beyond the historical screening that was performed at the transcriptional
level. In summary, 18F-YJH08 enables a quantitative assessment
of GR expression levels in real time among multiple tissues simultaneously,
and this technology is a first step toward unraveling the daunting
complexity of GR signaling and rationally engineering tissue specific
therapeutic modulators in vivo.
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- Yangjie Huang
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Imagerie Moleculaire in Vivo, INSERM, CEA, Université Paris Sud, CNRS, Universite Paris Saclay, CEA-Service Hospitalier Frederic Joliot, Orsay 94100, France
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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Kalita M, Parker MFL, Luu JM, Stewart MN, Blecha JE, VanBrocklin HF, Evans MJ, Flavell RR, Rosenberg OS, Ohliger MA, Wilson DM. Arabinofuranose-derived positron-emission tomography radiotracers for detection of pathogenic microorganisms. J Labelled Comp Radiopharm 2020; 63:231-239. [PMID: 32222086 DOI: 10.1002/jlcr.3835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2019] [Revised: 02/06/2020] [Accepted: 02/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
PURPOSE Detection of bacteria-specific metabolism via positron emission tomography (PET) is an emerging strategy to image human pathogens, with dramatic implications for clinical practice. In silico and in vitro screening tools have recently been applied to this problem, with several monosaccharides including l-arabinose showing rapid accumulation in Escherichia coli and other organisms. Our goal for this study was to evaluate several synthetically viable arabinofuranose-derived 18 F analogs for their incorporation into pathogenic bacteria. PROCEDURES We synthesized four radiolabeled arabinofuranose-derived sugars: 2-deoxy-2-[18 F]fluoro-arabinofuranoses (d-2-18 F-AF and l-2-18 F-AF) and 5-deoxy-5-[18 F]fluoro-arabinofuranoses (d-5-18 F-AF and l-5-18 F-AF). The arabinofuranoses were synthesized from 18 F- via triflated, peracetylated precursors analogous to the most common radiosynthesis of 2-deoxy-2-[18 F]fluoro-d-glucose ([18 F]FDG). These radiotracers were screened for their uptake into E. coli and Staphylococcus aureus. Subsequently, the sensitivity of d-2-18 F-AF and l-2-18 F-AF to key human pathogens was investigated in vitro. RESULTS All 18 F radiotracer targets were synthesized in high radiochemical purity. In the screening study, d-2-18 F-AF and l-2-18 F-AF showed greater accumulation in E. coli than in S. aureus. When evaluated in a panel of pathologic microorganisms, both d-2-18 F-AF and l-2-18 F-AF demonstrated sensitivity to most gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. CONCLUSIONS Arabinofuranose-derived 18 F PET radiotracers can be synthesized with high radiochemical purity. Our study showed absence of bacterial accumulation for 5-substitued analogs, a finding that may have mechanistic implications for related tracers. Both d-2-18 F-AF and l-2-18 F-AF showed sensitivity to most gram-negative and gram-positive organisms. Future in vivo studies will evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of these radiotracers in animal models of infection.
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- Mausam Kalita
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.,Department of Radiology, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Moroz A, Wang YH, Sharib JM, Wei J, Zhao N, Huang Y, Chen Z, Martinko AJ, Zhuo J, Lim SA, Zhang LH, Seo Y, Carlin S, Leung KK, Collisson EA, Kirkwood KS, Wells JA, Evans MJ. Theranostic Targeting of CUB Domain Containing Protein 1 (CDCP1) in Pancreatic Cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2020; 26:3608-3615. [PMID: 32341034 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-20-0268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Revised: 03/09/2020] [Accepted: 04/22/2020] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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PURPOSE The recent emergence of radioligand therapies for cancer treatment has increased enthusiasm for developing new theranostic strategies coupling both imaging and cytotoxicity in the same entity. In this study, we evaluated whether CUB domain containing protein 1 (CDCP1), a single-pass transmembrane protein highly overexpressed in diverse human cancers, might be a target for cancer theranostics. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN The ectodomain of CDCP1 was targeted using radiolabeled forms of 4A06, a potent and specific recombinant human antibody that we developed. Imaging and antitumor assessment studies were performed in animal models of pancreatic cancer, including two patient-derived xenograft models we developed for this study. For antitumor assessment studies, the endpoints were death due to tumor volume >3,000 mm3 or ≥20% loss in body weight. Specific tracer binding or antitumor effects were assessed with an unpaired, two-tailed Student t test and survival advantages were assessed with a log rank (Mantel-Cox) test. Differences at the 95% confidence level were interpreted to be significant. RESULTS 89Zr-4A06 detected a broad dynamic range of full length or cleaved CDCP1 expression on seven human pancreatic cancer tumors (n = 4/tumor). Treating mice with single or fractionated doses of 177Lu-4A06 significantly reduced pancreatic cancer tumor volume compared with mice receiving vehicle or unlabeled 4A06 (n = 8; P < 0.01). A single dose of 225Ac-4A06 also inhibited tumor growth, although the effect was less profound compared with 177Lu-4A06 (n = 8; P < 0.01). A significant survival advantage was imparted by 225Ac-4A06 (HR = 2.56; P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS These data establish that CDCP1 can be exploited for theranostics, a finding with widespread implications given its breadth of overexpression in cancer.
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- Anna Moroz
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.,Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo Innovation Center, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. .,Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Wei J, Leung K, Truillet C, Ruggero D, Wells JA, Evans MJ. Profiling the Surfaceome Identifies Therapeutic Targets for Cells with Hyperactive mTORC1 Signaling. Mol Cell Proteomics 2020; 19:294-307. [PMID: 31792071 PMCID: PMC7000124 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.ra119.001785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Revised: 11/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
Aberrantly high mTORC1 signaling is a known driver of many cancers and human disorders, yet pharmacological inhibition of mTORC1 rarely confers durable clinical responses. To explore alternative therapeutic strategies, herein we conducted a proteomics survey to identify cell surface proteins upregulated by mTORC1. A comparison of the surfaceome from Tsc1-/-versus Tsc1+/+ mouse embryonic fibroblasts revealed 59 proteins predicted to be significantly overexpressed in Tsc1-/- cells. Further validation of the data in multiple mouse and human cell lines showed that mTORC1 signaling most dramatically induced the expression of the proteases neprilysin (NEP/CD10) and aminopeptidase N (APN/CD13). Functional studies showed that constitutive mTORC1 signaling sensitized cells to genetic ablation of NEP and APN, as well as the biochemical inhibition of APN. In summary, these data show that mTORC1 signaling plays a significant role in the constitution of the surfaceome, which in turn may present novel therapeutic strategies.
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- Junnian Wei
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco California 94143
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco California 94143
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- Imagerie Moleculaire In Vivo, INSERM, CEA, Univ. Paris Sud, CNRS, Universite Paris Saclay, CEA-Service Hospitalier Frederic Joliot, Orsay France, 94100
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- Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco California 94143; Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco California 94143
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco California 94143; Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco California 94143.
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco California 94143; Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco California 94143; Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco California 94143.
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Cunningham SA, Evans MJ, Neave M, Armstrong J, Barton PS. Pollination and resource limitation as interacting constraints on almond fruit set. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2020; 22:113-119. [PMID: 31520511 DOI: 10.1111/plb.13045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2019] [Accepted: 08/18/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
Pollination and resource availability are factors determining reproductive success of plants, and in agriculture these factors influence yield of fruit-bearing crops. Our understanding of the importance of crop pollination is fast improving, but less is known about how the interaction between pollination and resources constrains fruit production. We conducted an experiment with almond trees (Prunus dulcis) to examine how the number of flowers, light availability and competition for resources affected nut (fruit) production on individual spurs (fruit-bearing structures) exposed to open-pollination or hand-pollination. We found a positive relationship between flower number and nut number on spurs with up to four flowers, but no further benefit after four flowers, suggesting a resource threshold expressed by individual spurs. Spurs with few flowers increased the conversion rate of flowers to nuts when supplemented with hand-pollination, but spurs with more flowers were more likely to achieve the threshold number of nuts even under open-pollination. Our experiment included a further treatment involving spraying whole trees with pollen. This treatment reduced nut production by spurs with many flowers and high light availability, suggesting competition is experienced by well-resourced spurs when resources need to be shared among developing nuts across the whole tree. Our study supports the hypothesis that excess flower production in fruit trees increases the potential for fruit production when pollinator and resource availability is variable (bet-hedging). Spurs with more flowers typically produce more nuts (within a limited range), but only if both resources and pollen supply increase with flower number. For almond growers, a focus on maintaining high flower numbers, especially in high light regions of the canopy, is the foundation for high levels of production. Strategies to lift flower number and light are complicated by trade-offs inherent in tree architecture and orchard design. However, fruit set would be lifted above that achieved by current practice by an increase in the pollination rate of flowers.
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- S A Cunningham
- Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Land and Water, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Land and Water, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Wang S, Blaha C, Santos R, Huynh T, Hayes TR, Beckford-Vera DR, Blecha JE, Hong AS, Fogarty M, Hope TA, Raleigh DR, Wilson DM, Evans MJ, VanBrocklin HF, Ozawa T, Flavell RR. Synthesis and Initial Biological Evaluation of Boron-Containing Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Ligands for Treatment of Prostate Cancer Using Boron Neutron Capture Therapy. Mol Pharm 2019; 16:3831-3841. [PMID: 31381351 DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.9b00464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is a therapeutic modality which has been used for the treatment of cancers, including brain and head and neck tumors. For effective treatment via BNCT, efficient and selective delivery of a high boron dose to cancer cells is needed. Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is a target for prostate cancer imaging and drug delivery. In this study, we conjugated boronic acid or carborane functional groups to a well-established PSMA inhibitor scaffold to deliver boron to prostate cancer cells and prostate tumor xenograft models. Eight boron-containing PSMA inhibitors were synthesized. All of these compounds showed a strong binding affinity to PSMA in a competition radioligand binding assay (IC50 from 555.7 to 20.3 nM). Three selected compounds 1a, 1d, and 1f were administered to mice, and their in vivo blocking of 68Ga-PSMA-11 uptake was demonstrated through a positron emission tomography (PET) imaging and biodistribution experiment. Biodistribution analysis demonstrated boron uptake of 4-7 μg/g in 22Rv1 prostate xenograft tumors and similar tumor/muscle ratios compared to the ratio for the most commonly used BNCT compound, 4-borono-l-phenylalanine (BPA). Taken together, these data suggest a potential role for PSMA targeted BNCT agents in prostate cancer therapy following suitable optimization.
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- Sinan Wang
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging , University of California , San Francisco , California , United States
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences , University of California , San Francisco , California , United States
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- Department of Neurological Surgery , University of California , San Francisco , California , United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging , University of California , San Francisco , California , United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging , University of California , San Francisco , California , United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging , University of California , San Francisco , California , United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging , University of California , San Francisco , California , United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging , University of California , San Francisco , California , United States
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- Department of Neurological Surgery , University of California , San Francisco , California , United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging , University of California , San Francisco , California , United States
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- Department of Neurological Surgery , University of California , San Francisco , California , United States.,Departments of Radiation Oncology , University of California , San Francisco , California , United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging , University of California , San Francisco , California , United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging , University of California , San Francisco , California , United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging , University of California , San Francisco , California , United States
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- Department of Neurological Surgery , University of California , San Francisco , California , United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging , University of California , San Francisco , California , United States.,Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry , University of California , San Francisco , California , United States
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Lingappa L, Ichikawa S, Gray AK, Acton D, Evans MJ, Madarasu RC, Kekunnaya R, Siddaiahagari S. An Unusual Combination of Neurological Manifestations and Sudden Vision Loss in a Child with Familial Hyperphosphatemic Tumoral Calcinosis. Ann Indian Acad Neurol 2019; 22:327-331. [PMID: 31359949 PMCID: PMC6613414 DOI: 10.4103/aian.aian_191_18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Hyperphosphatemia in the absence of renal failure is an unusual occurrence, particularly in children, but is a common primary feature of familial hyperphosphatemic tumor calcinosis. We report a child with hyperphosphatemia who presented with multiple episodes of neurologic dysfunction involving lower motor neuron facial nerve palsy along with sequential visual loss. He also had an episode of stroke. There was an extensive metastatic calcification of soft tissue and vasculature. Hyperphosphatemia with normal serum alkaline phosphatase, calcium, parathyroid hormone, and renal function was noted. He was managed with hemodialysis and sevelamer (3 months) without much success in reducing serum phosphate level, requiring continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (3 years). Intact fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) was undetectable, with C-terminal FGF23 fragments significantly elevated (2575 RU/ml, normal <180 RU/ml). Sequencing demonstrated homozygous c.486C >A (p.N162K) mutation in FGF23 exon 3, confirming the diagnoses of primary FGF23 deficiency, the first case to be reported from India.
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- Lokesh Lingappa
- Department of Neurology and Hemato-Oncology, Rainbow Children's Hospital and Birthright, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Jasti V Ramanamma Children's Eye Care Centre, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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- Department of Neurology and Hemato-Oncology, Rainbow Children's Hospital and Birthright, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Muir RK, Zhao N, Wei J, Wang YH, Moroz A, Huang Y, Chen YC, Sriram R, Kurhanewicz J, Ruggero D, Renslo AR, Evans MJ. Measuring Dynamic Changes in the Labile Iron Pool in Vivo with a Reactivity-Based Probe for Positron Emission Tomography. ACS Cent Sci 2019; 5:727-736. [PMID: 31041393 PMCID: PMC6487455 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b00240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2019] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Redox cycling of iron powers various enzyme functions crucial for life, making the study of iron acquisition, storage, and disposition in the whole organism a worthy topic of inquiry. However, despite its important role in biology and disease, imaging iron in animals with oxidation-state specificity remains an outstanding problem in biology and medicine. Here we report a first-generation reactivity-based probe of labile ferrous iron suitable for positron emission tomography studies in live animals. The responses of this reagent to systemic changes in labile iron disposition were revealed using iron supplementation and sequestration treatments in mice, while the potential of this approach for in vivo imaging of cancer was demonstrated using genetically and pathologically diverse mouse models, including spontaneous tumors arising in a genetically engineered model of prostate cancer driven by loss of PTEN.
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- Ryan K. Muir
- Department
of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Graduate
Program in Chemistry & Chemical Biology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Helen
Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Department
of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Helen
Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Department
of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
- Helen
Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States
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Sherwen T, Evans MJ, Sommariva R, Hollis LDJ, Ball SM, Monks PS, Reed C, Carpenter LJ, Lee JD, Forster G, Bandy B, Reeves CE, Bloss WJ. Effects of halogens on European air-quality. Faraday Discuss 2018; 200:75-100. [PMID: 28581558 DOI: 10.1039/c7fd00026j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Halogens (Cl, Br) have a profound influence on stratospheric ozone (O3). They (Cl, Br and I) have recently also been shown to impact the troposphere, notably by reducing the mixing ratios of O3 and OH. Their potential for impacting regional air-quality is less well understood. We explore the impact of halogens on regional pollutants (focussing on O3) with the European grid of the GEOS-Chem model (0.25° × 0.3125°). It has recently been updated to include a representation of halogen chemistry. We focus on the summer of 2015 during the ICOZA campaign at the Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory on the North Sea coast of the UK. Comparisons between these observations together with those from the UK air-quality network show that the model has some skill in representing the mixing ratios/concentration of pollutants during this period. Although the model has some success in simulating the Weybourne ClNO2 observations, it significantly underestimates ClNO2 observations reported at inland locations. It also underestimates mixing ratios of IO, OIO, I2 and BrO, but this may reflect the coastal nature of these observations. Model simulations, with and without halogens, highlight the processes by which halogens can impact O3. Throughout the domain O3 mixing ratios are reduced by halogens. In northern Europe this is due to a change in the background O3 advected into the region, whereas in southern Europe this is due to local chemistry driven by Mediterranean emissions. The proportion of hourly O3 above 50 nmol mol-1 in Europe is reduced from 46% to 18% by halogens. ClNO2 from N2O5 uptake onto sea-salt leads to increases in O3 mixing ratio, but these are smaller than the decreases caused by the bromine and iodine. 12% of ethane and 16% of acetone within the boundary layer is oxidised by Cl. Aerosol response to halogens is complex with small (∼10%) reductions in PM2.5 in most locations. A lack of observational constraints coupled to large uncertainties in emissions and chemical processing of halogens make these conclusions tentative at best. However, the results here point to the potential for halogen chemistry to influence air quality policy in Europe and other parts of the world.
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- T Sherwen
- Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory, University of York, York, UK.
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- Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory, University of York, York, UK. and National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), University of York, York, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory, University of York, York, UK.
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- Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory, University of York, York, UK.
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- Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory, University of York, York, UK. and National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), University of York, York, UK
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- NCAS, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK and School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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Evans MJ, Hawley JE, Rego PW, Rittenhouse TAG. Hourly movement decisions indicate how a large carnivore inhabits developed landscapes. Oecologia 2018; 190:11-23. [PMID: 30506304 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-018-4307-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2017] [Accepted: 11/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The ecology of wildlife living in proximity to humans often differs from that in more natural places. Animals may perceive anthropogenic features and people as threats, exhibiting avoidance behavior, or may acclimate to human activities. As development expands globally, changes in the ecology of species in response to human phenomena may determine whether animals persist in these changing environments. We hypothesize that American black bears (Ursus americanus) persist within developed areas by effectively avoiding risky landscape features. We test this by quantifying changes in the movements of adult females from a population living within exurban and suburban development. We collected hourly GPS data from 23 individuals from 2012 to 2014 and used step-selection functions to estimate selection for anthropogenic features. Females were more avoidant of roads and highways when with cubs than without and were more responsive to increased traffic volume. As bears occupied greater housing densities, selection for housing increased, while avoidance of roads and responsiveness to traffic increased. Behavioral flexibility allowed bears in highly developed areas to alter selection and avoidance for anthropogenic features seasonally. These findings support the hypothesis that black bears perceive human activity as risky, and effectively avoid these risks while inhabiting developed areas. We document a high amount of individual variation in selection of anthropogenic features within the study population. Our findings suggest that initially, wildlife can successfully inhabit developed landscapes by effectively avoiding human activity. However, variation among individuals provides the capacity for population-level shifts in behavior over time.
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- Michael J Evans
- Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Connecticut, Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation Center, Unit 4087, 1376 Storrs Rd., Storrs, CT, 06269, USA.
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- Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Wildlife Division, 341 Milford St., Burlington, CT, 06013, USA
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- Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Wildlife Division, 341 Milford St., Burlington, CT, 06013, USA
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- Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Connecticut, Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation Center, Unit 4087, 1376 Storrs Rd., Storrs, CT, 06269, USA
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Evans MJ, Pike G, Jaikaransingh D, Antony A. Re: Knowledge of final-year medical students about oral and maxillofacial surgery: a two-centre study. Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2018; 56:987. [PMID: 30482601 DOI: 10.1016/j.bjoms.2018.10.270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2018] [Accepted: 10/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- M J Evans
- St George's, University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE.
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- St George's, University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE
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- St George's, University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE
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- St George's, University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE
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Behr SC, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Li Y, Wang YH, Wei J, Moroz A, Lee JK, Hsiao JC, Gao KT, Ma W, Cha S, Wilson DM, Seo Y, Nelson SJ, Chang SM, Evans MJ. Targeting iron metabolism in high-grade glioma with 68Ga-citrate PET/MR. JCI Insight 2018; 3:93999. [PMID: 30385712 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.93999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2017] [Accepted: 09/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Noninvasive tools that target tumor cells could improve the management of glioma. Cancer generally has a high demand for Fe(III), an essential nutrient for a variety of biochemical processes. We tested whether 68Ga-citrate, an Fe(III) biomimetic that binds to apo-transferrin in blood, detects glioma in preclinical models and patients using hybrid PET/MRI. Mouse PET/CT studies showed that 68Ga-citrate accumulates in subcutaneous U87MG xenografts in a transferrin receptor-dependent fashion within 4 hours after injection. Seventeen patients with WHO grade III or IV glioma received 3.7-10.2 mCi 68Ga-citrate and were imaged with PET/MR 123-307 minutes after injection to establish that the radiotracer can localize to human tumors. Multiple contrast-enhancing lesions were PET avid, and tumor to adjacent normal white matter ratios were consistently greater than 10:1. Several contrast-enhancing lesions were not PET avid. One minimally enhancing lesion and another tumor with significantly reduced enhancement following bevacizumab therapy were PET avid. Advanced MR imaging analysis of one patient with contrast-enhancing glioblastoma showed that metabolic hallmarks of viable tumor spatially overlaid with 68Ga-citrate accumulation. These early data underscore that high-grade glioma may be detectable with a radiotracer that targets Fe(III) transport.
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- Spencer C Behr
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA.,Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo Innovation Center, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.,Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.,Department of Neurological Surgery, and
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.,Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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Moroz A, Lee CY, Wang YH, Hsiao JC, Sevillano N, Truillet C, Craik CS, Fong L, Wang CI, Evans MJ. A Preclinical Assessment of 89Zr-atezolizumab Identifies a Requirement for Carrier Added Formulations Not Observed with 89Zr-C4. Bioconjug Chem 2018; 29:3476-3482. [PMID: 30227708 DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.8b00632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The swell of experimental imaging technologies to noninvasively measure immune checkpoint protein expression presents the opportunity for rigorous comparative studies toward identifying a gold standard. 89Zr-atezolizumab is currently in man, and early data show tumor targeting but also abundant uptake in several normal tissues. Therefore, we conducted a reverse translational study both to understand if tumor to normal tissue ratios for 89Zr-atezolizumab could be improved and to make direct comparisons to 89Zr-C4, a radiotracer that we showed can detect a large dynamic range of tumor-associated PD-L1 expression. PET/CT and biodistribution studies in tumor bearing immunocompetent and nu/nu mice revealed that high specific activity 89Zr-atezolizumab (∼2 μCi/μg) binds to PD-L1 on tumors but also results in very high uptake in many normal mouse tissues, as expected. Unexpectedly, 89Zr-atezolizumab uptake was generally higher in normal mouse tissues compared to 89Zr-C4 and lower in H1975, a tumor model with modest PD-L1 expression. Also unexpectedly, reducing the specific activity at least 15-fold suppressed 89Zr-atezo uptake in normal mouse tissues but increased tumor uptake to levels observed with high specific activity 89Zr-C4. In summary, these data reveal that low specific activity 89Zr-atezo may be necessary for accurately measuring PD-L1 in the tumor microenvironment, assuming a threshold can be identified that preferentially suppresses binding in normal tissues without reducing binding to tumors with abundant expression. Alternatively, high specific activity approaches like 89Zr-C4 PET may be simpler to implement clinically to measure the broad dynamic range of PD-L1 expression known to manifest among tumors.
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- Anna Moroz
- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology , Skolkovo Innovation Center, 3 Nobel Street , Moscow 143026 , Russia.,Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging , University of California, San Francisco , 505 Parnassus Avenue , San Francisco , California 94143 , United States
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- Singapore Immunology Network, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) , 8A Biomedical Grove Immunos No. 03-06 , Biopolis, 138648 , Singapore
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging , University of California, San Francisco , 505 Parnassus Avenue , San Francisco , California 94143 , United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging , University of California, San Francisco , 505 Parnassus Avenue , San Francisco , California 94143 , United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry , University of California, San Francisco , 505 Parnassus Avenue , San Francisco , California 94143 , United States
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- Imagerie Moleculaire In Vivo, INSERM, CEA, Université Paris Sud, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay, CEA-Service Hospitalier Frederic Joliot , Orsay 94100 , France
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry , University of California, San Francisco , 505 Parnassus Avenue , San Francisco , California 94143 , United States
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- Singapore Immunology Network, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) , 8A Biomedical Grove Immunos No. 03-06 , Biopolis, 138648 , Singapore
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging , University of California, San Francisco , 505 Parnassus Avenue , San Francisco , California 94143 , United States.,Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry , University of California, San Francisco , 505 Parnassus Avenue , San Francisco , California 94143 , United States
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Henry KE, Dacek MM, Dilling TR, Caen JD, Fox IL, Evans MJ, Lewis JS. A PET Imaging Strategy for Interrogating Target Engagement and Oncogene Status in Pancreatic Cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2018; 25:166-176. [PMID: 30228208 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-18-1485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2018] [Revised: 08/17/2018] [Accepted: 09/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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PURPOSE Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most deadly cancers, with a 5-year survival rate of less than 10%. Physicians often rely on biopsy or CT to guide treatment decisions, but these techniques fail to reliably measure the actions of therapeutic agents in PDAC. KRAS mutations are present in >90% of PDAC and are connected to many signaling pathways through its oncogenic cascade, including extracellular regulated kinase (ERK) and MYC. A key downstream event of MYC is transferrin receptor (TfR), which has been identified as a biomarker for cancer therapeutics and imaging. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN In this study, we aimed to test whether zirconium-89 transferrin ([89Zr]Zr-Tf) could measure changes in MYC depending on KRAS status of PDAC, and assess target engagement of anti-MYC and anti-ERK-targeted therapies. RESULTS Mice bearing iKras*p53* tumors showed significantly higher (P < 0.05) uptake of [89Zr]Zr-Tf in mice withdrawn from inducible oncogenic KRAS. A therapy study with JQ1 showed a statistically significant decrease (P < 0.05) of [89Zr]Zr-Tf uptake in drug versus vehicle-treated mice bearing Capan-2 and Suit-2 xenografts. IHC analysis of resected PDAC tumors reflects the data observed via PET imaging and radiotracer biodistribution. CONCLUSIONS Our study demonstrates that [89Zr]Zr-Tf is a valuable tool to noninvasively assess oncogene status and target engagement of small-molecule inhibitors downstream of oncogenic KRAS, allowing a quantitative assessment of drug delivery.
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- Kelly E Henry
- Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Program of Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.,Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
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- Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York. .,Program of Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.,Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.,Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.,Radiochemistry and Molecular Imaging Probes Core, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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Mari Aparici C, Behr SC, Seo Y, Kelley RK, Corvera C, Gao KT, Aggarwal R, Evans MJ. Imaging Hepatocellular Carcinoma With 68Ga-Citrate PET: First Clinical Experience. Mol Imaging 2018; 16:1536012117723256. [PMID: 28893116 PMCID: PMC5598799 DOI: 10.1177/1536012117723256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
Abstract
While cross-sectional imaging with computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging is the primary method for diagnosing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), they provide little biological insight into this molecularly heterogeneous disease. Nuclear imaging tools that can detect molecular subsets of tumors could greatly improve diagnosis and management of HCC. To this end, we conducted a patient study to determine whether HCC can be resolved using 68Ga-citrate positron emission tomography (PET). One patient with recurrent HCC was injected with 300 MBq of 68Ga-citrate and imaged with PET/CT 249 minutes post injection. Four (28%) of 14 hepatic lesions were avid for 68Ga-citrate. One extrahepatic lesion was not PET avid. The average maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) for the lesions was 7.2 (range: 6.2-8.4), while the SUVmax of the normal liver parenchyma was 4.7 and blood pool was 5.7. The avid lesions were not significantly larger than the quiescent lesions, and a prior contrast CT showed uniform enhancement among the lesions, suggesting that tumor signals are due to specific binding of the radiotracer to the transferrin receptor, rather than enhanced vascularity in the tumor microenvironment. Further studies are required in a larger patient cohort to verify the molecular basis of radiotracer uptake and the clinical utility of this tool.
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- Carina Mari Aparici
- 1 Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- 1 Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- 1 Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.,2 Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- 2 Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- 3 Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- 1 Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- 2 Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- 1 Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.,2 Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.,4 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Afshar-Oromieh A, Debus N, Uhrig M, Hope TA, Evans MJ, Holland-Letz T, Giesel FL, Kopka K, Hadaschik B, Kratochwil C, Haberkorn U. Impact of long-term androgen deprivation therapy on PSMA ligand PET/CT in patients with castration-sensitive prostate cancer. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2018; 45:2045-2054. [PMID: 29980832 PMCID: PMC6182397 DOI: 10.1007/s00259-018-4079-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2018] [Accepted: 06/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Purpose Since the introduction of PSMA PET/CT with 68Ga-PSMA-11, this modality for imaging prostate cancer (PC) has spread worldwide. Preclinical studies have demonstrated that short-term androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) can significantly increase PSMA expression on PC cells. Additionally, retrospective clinical data in large patient cohorts suggest a positive association between ongoing ADT and a pathological PSMA PET/CT scan. The present evaluation was conducted to further analyse the influence of long-term ADT on PSMA PET/CT findings. Methods A retrospective analysis was performed of all 1,704 patients who underwent a 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT scan at our institution from 2011 to 2017 to detect PC. Of 306 patients scanned at least twice, 10 had started and continued ADT with a continuous clinical response between the two PSMA PET/CT scans. These ten patients were included in the current analysis which compared the tracer uptake intensity and volume of PC lesions on PSMA PET/CT before and during ongoing ADT. Results Overall, 31 PC lesions were visible in all ten patients before initiation of ADT. However, during ongoing ADT (duration 42–369 days, median 230 days), only 14 lesions were visible in eight of the ten patients. The average tracer uptake values decreased in 71% and increased in 12.9% of the PC lesions. Of all lesions, 33.3% were still visible in six patients with a complete PSA response (≤0.1 ng/ml). Conclusion Continuous long-term ADT significantly reduces the visibility of castration-sensitive PC on PSMA PET/CT. If the objective is visualization of the maximum possible extent of disease, we recommend referring patients for PSMA PET/CT before starting ADT.
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- Ali Afshar-Oromieh
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany. .,Department of Nuclear Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Freiburgstrasse 18, 3010, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany.,German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Urology, Essen University Hospital, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.,Clinical Cooperation Unit Nuclear Medicine, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Michael J. Evans
- Department of Natural Resources and the EnvironmentWildlife and Fisheries Conservation CenterUniversity of Connecticut Storrs Connecticut
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- Department of Natural Resources and the EnvironmentWildlife and Fisheries Conservation CenterUniversity of Connecticut Storrs Connecticut
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Evans MJ, Truillet C, Ruggero D, Lewis JS, Aggarwal R, Behr SC. Abstract 3694: Measuring oncogene signaling with transferrin-based PET: From bench to bedside. Cancer Res 2018. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2018-3694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background: Non-invasive tools that measure the activity of central oncogenes could be broadly useful for cancer detection and management. We have shown that radiolabeled transferrin molecules can be used to measure mTORC1 and MYC signaling in prostate cancer models, because the transferrin receptor is a MYC target gene. The purpose of this study was to complete the preclinical assessment of 89Zr-transferrin, as well as demonstrate that clinical disease harbors avidity for transferrin using 68Ga-citrate. Methods: Human prostate cancer cell lines have been manipulated pharmacologically and genetically to alter mTORC1 and/or MYC signaling, and radiolabeled transferrin has been used to study the impact of aberrant oncogene signaling on transferrin biology. A first in man study with 68Ga-transferrin PET was also performed at UCSF using a GE SIGNA PET/MR. A dose escalation study was performed in eight patients with castration resistant prostate cancer to identify the optimal signal to noise ratio. Results: Activation of mTORC1 or MYC resulted in higher transferrin receptor expression and higher transferrin uptake into cells, as expected. Pharmacological inhibition of either oncogene suppressed transferrin uptake in vitro and in vivo. 68Ga-transferrin PET/MR resolved ~75% of lesions that were detectable by CT or bone scan. Approximately 4 mCi and >3.5 hours post injection was required to visualize tumor lesions. Conclusions: These experiments establish that like MYC, mTOR activity can be quantified in prostate cancer models with 89Zr-transferrin. Moreover, our first in human study with 68Ga-transferrin shows that human disease is generally avid for the radiotracer, but the uptake is variable among lesions, consistent with a molecularly diverse disease.
Citation Format: Michael J. Evans, Charles Truillet, Davide Ruggero, Jason S. Lewis, Rahul Aggarwal, Spencer C. Behr. Measuring oncogene signaling with transferrin-based PET: From bench to bedside [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018; 2018 Apr 14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 3694.
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- 1University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- 1University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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