Synthesis and in vivo evaluation of 18F-fluoroethyl GF120918 and XR9576 as positron emission tomography probes for assessing the function of drug efflux transporters
作者:Kazunori Kawamura、Tomoteru Yamasaki、Fujiko Konno、Joji Yui、Akiko Hatori、Kazuhiko Yanamoto、Hidekatsu Wakizaka、Masanao Ogawa、Yuichiro Yoshida、Nobuki Nengaki、Toshimitsu Fukumura、Ming-Rong Zhang
DOI:10.1016/j.bmc.2010.12.004
日期:2011.1
The purpose of this study was to synthesize two new positron emission tomography (PET) probes, N-(4-(2-(1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-6,7-dimethoxy-2-isoquinolinyl)ethyl)phenyl)-9,10-dihydro-5-[F-18]fluoroethoxy-9- oxo-4-acridine carboxamide ([F-18]3) and quinoline-3-carboxylic acid [2-(4-2-[7-(2-[F-18] fluoroethoxy)6- methoxy-3,4-dihydro-1H-isoquinolin-2-yl]ethyl}phenylcarbamoyl)-4,5-dimethoxyphenyl] amide ([F-18]4), andtoevaluate the potential of these PET probes for assessing the function of two major drug efflux transporters, P-glycoprotein (P-gp) and breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP). [F-18]3 and [F-18]4 were synthesized by F-18-alkylation of each O-desmethyl precursor with [F-18]2-fluoroethyl bromide for injection as PET probes. In vitroaccumulation assayshowed that treatmentwith P-gp/BCRPinhibitors (1 and 2) enhanced the intracellular accumulation capacity of P-gp-and BCRP-overexpressing MES-SA/Dx5 cells. In PET studies, the uptake (AUC(brain) ([0-60 min])) of [F-18]3 and [F-18]4 in wild-type mice co-injected with 1 were approximately sevenfold higher than that in wild-typemice, and the uptake of [F-18]3 and [F-18]4 in P-gp/Bcrp knockoutmicewere eightto ninefold higher than that in wild-typemice. The increased uptake of [F-18]3 and [F-18]4 was similar to that of parent compounds([C-11]1 and [C-11]2) previously described, indicating that radioactivity levels in the brain after injection of [F-18] 3 and [F-18]4 are related to the function of drug efflux transporters. Also, these results suggest that the structural difference between parent compounds ([C-11]1 and [C-11]2) and fluoroethyl analogs ([F-18]3 and [F-18]4) do not obviously affect the potency against drug efflux transporters. Inmetabolite analysis of mice, the unchanged form in the brain and plasma at 60 min after co-injection of [F-18]4 plus 1 were higher (95% for brain; 81% for plasma) than that after co-injection of [F-18]3 plus 1. [F-18]4 is a promising PET probe to assess the function of drug efflux transporters. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.