Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Jagtvej 160, Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark.
Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine & PET, Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark.
Macromol Rapid Commun. 2022 Jun;43(12):e2100655. doi: 10.1002/marc.202100655. Epub 2021 Dec 28.
Functionalization of macromolecules (antibodies, polymers, nanoparticles) with click-reactive groups greatly enhances the versatility of their potential applications. Click chemistry based on tetrazine - trans-cyclooctene (TCO) ligation is especially promising and is already widely applied for pretargeted imaging and therapy. Indirect radiolabeling of TCO-functionalized macromolecules with substoichiometric amounts of radioactive tetrazines is a convenient way to monitor the fate of those macromolecules by means of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging after their administration into the test subject. In this work, the preparation is reported of TCO-containing graft copolymers, namely PeptoBrushes (polyglutamic acid-graft-polysarcosine), novel [ C]carboxylated tetrazines, and their combined use in radiolabeling the polymer by inverse electron demand Diels Alder reaction, to investigate it is potential for an application in pretarget imaging or injectable brachytherapy. The procedure for [ C]tetrazine production is easy and scalable, while indirect TCO-PeptoBrushes labeling with these [ C]tetrazines is mild, fast, and quantitative. This strategy allows facile C-labeling of diverse TCO-functionalized macromolecules, so that their localization and distribution shortly after injection can be assessed by PET.
点击反应基团的功能化大大提高了大分子(抗体、聚合物、纳米粒子)潜在应用的多功能性。基于四嗪-反式环辛烯(TCO)键合的点击化学尤其有前途,并且已经广泛应用于靶向前成像和治疗。用放射性四嗪亚化学计量数量间接放射性标记 TCO 功能化的大分子,是通过在实验对象中给药后通过正电子发射断层扫描(PET)成像来监测这些大分子命运的一种方便方法。在这项工作中,报道了 TCO 含有接枝共聚物,即 PeptoBrushes(聚谷氨酸接枝聚肌氨酸)、新型 [C] 羧基化四嗪及其在通过逆电子需求 Diels-Alder 反应对聚合物进行放射性标记中的组合使用,以研究其在靶向前成像或可注射近距离放射治疗中的应用潜力。[C]四嗪的制备过程简单且可扩展,而用这些 [C]四嗪进行间接 TCO-Peptobrush 标记则温和、快速且定量。该策略允许轻松对各种 TCO 功能化大分子进行 C 标记,从而可以通过 PET 评估注射后它们的定位和分布。