Chelation with a twist: a bifunctional chelator to enable room temperature radiolabeling and targeted PET imaging with scandium-44†,Chemical Science

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Chelation with a twist: a bifunctional chelator to enable room temperature radiolabeling and targeted PET imaging with scandium-44†
Chemical Science ( IF 9.969 ) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 , DOI: 10.1039/c9sc04655k
Brett A. Vaughn, Shin Hye Ahn, Eduardo Aluicio-Sarduy, Justin Devaraj, Aeli P. Olson, Jonathan Engle, Eszter Boros

Scandium-44 has emerged as an attractive, novel PET radioisotope with ideal emission properties and half-life (t_1/2 = 3.97 h, E_mean β⁺ = 632 keV) well matched to the pharmacokinetics of small molecules, peptides and small biologics. Conjugates of the current gold-standard chelator for ⁴⁴Sc, 1,4,7,10-tetraaza-cyclododecane-1,4,7,10-tetraacetic acid (DOTA), require heating to achieve radiochemical complexation, limiting application of this isotope in conjunction with temperature-sensitive biologics. To establish Sc(III) isotopes as broadly applicable tools for nuclear medicine, development of alternative bifunctional chelators is required. To address this need, we characterized the Sc(III)-chelation properties of the small-cavity triaza-macrocycle-based, picolinate-functionalized chelator H₃mpatcn. Spectroscopic and radiochemical studies establish the [Sc(mpatcn)] complex as kinetically inert and appropriate for biological applications. A proof-of-concept bifunctional conjugate targeting the prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA), picaga-DUPA, chelates ⁴⁴Sc to form ⁴⁴Sc(picaga)-DUPA at room temperature with an apparent molar activity of 60 MBq μmol⁻¹ and formation of inert RRR-Λ and SSS-Δ-twist isomers. Sc(picaga)-DUPA exhibits a K_i of 1.6 nM for PSMA, comparable to the ¹⁸F-based imaging probe DCFPyL (K_i = 1.1 nM) currently in phase 3 clinical trials for imaging prostate cancer. Finally, we successfully employed ⁴⁴Sc(picaga)-DUPA to image PSMA-expressing tumors in a preclinical mouse model, establishing the picaga bifunctional chelator as an optimal choice for the ⁴⁴Sc PET nuclide.

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