Theranostic Agents for Photodynamic Therapy of Prostate Cancer by Targeting Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen

©2016 American Association for Cancer Research..

Prostatectomy has been the mainstay treatment for men with localized prostate cancer. Surgery, however, often can result in major side effects, which are caused from damage and removal of nerves and muscles surrounding the prostate. A technology that can help surgeons more precisely identify and remove prostate cancer resulting in a more complete prostatectomy is needed. Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA), a type II membrane antigen highly expressed in prostate cancer, has been an attractive target for imaging and therapy. The objective of this study is to develop low molecular weight PSMA-targeted photodynamic therapy (PDT) agents, which would provide image guidance for prostate tumor resection and allow for subsequent PDT to eliminate unresectable or remaining cancer cells. On the basis of our highly negatively charged, urea-based PSMA ligand PSMA-1, we synthesized two PSMA-targeting PDT conjugates named PSMA-1-Pc413 and PSMA-1-IR700. In in vitro cellular uptake experiments and in vivo animal imaging experiments, the two conjugates demonstrated selective and specific uptake in PSMA-positive PC3pip cells/tumors, but not in PSMA-negative PC3flu cells/tumors. Further in vivo photodynamic treatment proved that the two PSMA-1-PDT conjugates can effectively inhibit PC3pip tumor progression. The two PSMA-1-PDT conjugates reported here may have the potential to aid in the detection and resection of prostate cancers. It may also allow for the identification of unresectable cancer tissue and PDT ablation of such tissue after surgical resection with potentially less damage to surrounding tissues. Mol Cancer Ther; 15(8); 1834-44. ©2016 AACR.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

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Molecular cancer therapeutics - 15(2016), 8 vom: 21. Aug., Seite 1834-44

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Xinning [VerfasserIn]
Tsui, Brian [VerfasserIn]
Ramamurthy, Gopolakrishnan [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Ping [VerfasserIn]
Meyers, Joseph [VerfasserIn]
Kenney, Malcolm E [VerfasserIn]
Kiechle, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]
Ponsky, Lee [VerfasserIn]
Basilion, James P [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antigens, Surface
Antineoplastic Agents
EC 3.4.17.21
FOLH1 protein, human
Glutamate Carboxypeptidase II
Journal Article
Ligands
Peptide Fragments

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Date Completed 29.06.2017

Date Revised 30.09.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-15-0722

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM261360019