Investigations into the synthesis, radiofluorination and conjugation of a new [18F]fluorocyclobutyl prosthetic group and its in vitro stability using a tyrosine model system
Investigations into the synthesis, radiofluorination and conjugation of a new [18F]fluorocyclobutyl prosthetic group and its in vitro stability using a tyrosine model system
Franck, D.; Kniess, T.; Steinbach, J.; Zitzmann-Kolbe, S.; Friebe, M.; Dinkelborg, L. M.; Graham, K.
The [18F]fluorocyclobutyl group has the potential to be a metabolically stable prosthetic group for PET tracers. The synthesis of the radiolabeling precursor cis-cyclobutane-1,3-diyl bis(toluene-4-sulfonate) 8 was obtained from epibromohydrin in 7 steps (2% overall yield). The radiolabeling of this precursor 8 and its conjugation to L-tyrosine as a model system was successfully achieved to give the new nonnatural amino acid 3-[18F]fluorocyclobutyl-L-tyrosine (L-3-[18F]FCBT) [18F]17 in 8% decay-corrected yield from the non-carrier-added [18F]fluoride. L-3-[18F]FCBT was investigated in vitro in different cancer cell lines to determine the uptake and stability. The tracer [18F]17 showed a time dependent uptake into different
tumor cell lines (A549, NCI-H460, DU145) with the best uptake of 5.8% injected dose per 5 105 cells after 30 min in human lung carcinoma cells A549. The stability of L-3-[18F]FCBT in human and rat plasma and the stability of the non-radioactive L-3-FCBT in rat hepatocytes were both found to be excellent. These results show that the non-natural amino acid L-3-[18F]FCBT is a promising metabolically stable radiotracer for positron emission tomography.
Keywords: Cyclobutyl; Stability; Metabolism; Fluorine-18; Positron emission tomography (PET)
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Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 21(2013), 643-652
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2012.11.049
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