Radiosynthesis of PET radiotracer as a prodrug for imaging group II metabotropic glutamate receptors in vivo
作者:Ji-Quan Wang、Zhaoda Zhang、Darshini Kuruppu、Anna-Liisa Brownell
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2012.01.039
日期:2012.3
Group II metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) have been implicated in a variety of neurological and psychiatric disorders in recent studies. As a noninvasive medical imaging technique and a powerful tool in neurological research, positron emission tomography (PET) offers the possibility to visualize and study group II mGluRs in vivo under physiologic and pathologic conditions. We synthesized a PET tracer, (S,S,S)-2-(2-carboxycyclopropyl)-2-(3-[C-11]methoxyphenethyl) glycine dimethyl ester ([C-11]CMGDE), as a prodrug for group II mGluRs, and studied its preliminary biological properties in Sprague-Dawley rats to visualize group II mGluRs. The microPET studies demonstrated that [C-11]CMGDE readily penetrated into the brain and the radiotracer generated from [C-11]CMGDE had fast reversible binding in the group II mGluRs rich regions including striatum, hippocampus and different cortical areas. Blocking studies with LY341495 showed 20-30% decrease of binding of the radiotracer generated from [C-11]CMGDE in all brain areas with the highest decrease in the striatum 31.5 +/- 3.2%. The results show [C-11]CMGDE is the first PET tracer that is brain penetrating and can be used to image group II mGluRs in vivo. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.