Abstract |
The estrogen receptors (ERs) are attractive targets in the treatment of breast cancer and the development of receptor-based breast cancer imaging agents for diagnostic use in biomedical imaging technique positron emission tomography (PET). Tetrahydroisoquinoline derivatives are a class of selective estrogen receptor modulators ( SERMs) with high binding affinity and specificity exhibiting up to 50 folds for ERalpha over ERbeta. New carbon-11 labeled tetrahydroisoquinoline derivatives, [11C]methyl 1-(2-(4-(2-(4-fluorophenyl)-6-hydroxy-1-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinolin-1-yl)phenoxy)ethyl)piperidine-4-carboxylate ([11C]10a) and [11C]methyl 1-(2-(4-(2-(4-chlorophenyl)-6-hydroxy-1-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinolin-1-yl)phenoxy)ethyl)piperidine-4-carboxylate ([11C]10b), have been first designed, synthesized and evaluated. The target tracers were prepared by O-[11C]methylation of their corresponding precursors using [11C]CH3OTf and isolated by solid-phase extraction (SPE) purification procedure in 40-60% radiochemical yields, which were decay corrected to the end of bombardment (EOB), based on [11C]CO2. The overall synthesis time was 15-20 min from EOB. The radiochemical purity was >99%, and specific activity was in a range of 74-111GBq/micromol at the end of synthesis (EOS). Preliminary findings from in vitro biological assay indicate that the synthesized derivatives displayed similar potencies in the MCF-7 human breast cancer cell line in comparison with 4-hydroxytamoxifen, a well-known potent SERM. These results encourage further in vivo evaluation of carbon-11 labeled tetrahydroisoquinoline derivatives as new potential SERM radioligands for PET imaging of ER expression in breast cancer.
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Authors | Mingzhang Gao, Min Wang, Kathy D Miller, George W Sledge, Qi-Huang Zheng |
Journal | European journal of medicinal chemistry
(Eur J Med Chem)
Vol. 43
Issue 10
Pg. 2211-9
(Oct 2008)
ISSN: 0223-5234 [Print] France |
PMID | 18272256
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
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Chemical References |
- Carbon Radioisotopes
- Ligands
- Receptors, Estrogen
- Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators
- Tetrahydroisoquinolines
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Topics |
- Breast Neoplasms
(diagnostic imaging, metabolism, pathology)
- Carbon Radioisotopes
(chemistry)
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Cell Proliferation
(drug effects)
- Drug Design
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Humans
- Ligands
- Positron-Emission Tomography
- Radiochemistry
- Receptors, Estrogen
(metabolism)
- Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators
(chemical synthesis, chemistry, pharmacology)
- Staining and Labeling
- Tetrahydroisoquinolines
(chemical synthesis, chemistry, pharmacology)
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