Experimental Therapy of HER2-Expressing Xenografts Using the Second-Generation HER2-Targeting Affibody Molecule 188Re-ZHER2:41071

Autor: Yongsheng Liu, Anzhelika Vorobyeva, Anna Orlova, Mark W. Konijnenberg, Tianqi Xu, Olga Bragina, Annika Loftenius, Erica Rosander, Fredrik Y. Frejd, Vladimir Tolmachev
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Pharmaceutics, Vol 14, Iss 5, p 1092 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1999-4923
DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics14051092
Popis: HER2-targeted radionuclide therapy might be helpful for the treatment of breast, gastric, and ovarian cancers which have developed resistance to antibody and antibody-drug conjugate-based therapies despite preserved high HER2-expression. Affibody molecules are small targeting proteins based on a non-immunoglobulin scaffold. The goal of this study was to test in an animal model a hypothesis that the second-generation HER2-targeting Affibody molecule 188Re-ZHER2:41071 might be useful for treatment of HER2-expressing malignant tumors. ZHER2:41071 was efficiently labeled with a beta-emitting radionuclide rhenium-188 (188Re). 188Re-ZHER2:41071 demonstrated preserved specificity and high affinity (KD = 5 ± 3 pM) of binding to HER2-expressing cells. In vivo studies demonstrated rapid washout of 188Re from kidneys. The uptake in HER2-expressing SKOV-3 xenografts was HER2-specific and significantly exceeded the renal uptake 4 h after injection and later. The median survival of mice, which were treated by three injections of 16 MBq 188Re-ZHER2:41071 was 68 days, which was significantly longer (188Re-ZHER2:41071 enabled enhancement of survival of mice with human tumors without toxicity to the kidneys, which is the critical organ.
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