Preclinical study of a new 177Lu-labeled somatostatin receptor antagonist in HT-29 human colorectal cancer cells

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Department of Nuclear Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

2 Radiation Application Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute (NSTRI), Tehran, Iran

3 Research Center for Nuclear Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

4 Department of Toxicology and Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Toxicology and Poisoning Research Centre, Tehran

5 Toxicology and Poisoning Research Centre, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

6 Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

7 Drug Design and Development Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Objective(s): Somatostatin receptor-positive neuroendocrine tumors have been targeted using various peptide analogs radiolabeled with therapeutic radionuclides for years. The better biomedical properties of radioantagonists as higher tumor uptake make these radioligands more attractive than agonists for somatostatin receptor-targeted radionuclide therapy. In this study, we tried to evaluate the efficiency of Luthetium-177 (177Lu) radiolabeled DOTA-Peptide 2 (177Lu-DOTA-Peptide 2) as a new radioantagonist in HT-29 human colorectal cancer in vitro and in vivo.
Methods: DOTA conjugated antagonistic peptide with the sequence of p-Cl-Phe-Cyclo(D-Cys-L-BzThi-D-Aph-Lys-Thr-Cys)-D-Tyr-NH2 (DOTA-Peptide 2) was labeled with 177Lu. In vitro assays (saturation binding assay and internalization test) and animal biodistribution were performed in human colon adenocarcinoma cells (HT-29) and HT-29 tumor-bearing nude mice.
Results: 177Lu-DOTA-Peptide 2 showed high stability in acetate buffer and human plasma (>97%). Antagonistic property of 177Lu-DOTA-Peptide 2 was confirmed by low internalization in HT-29 cells (<5%). The desired dissociation constant (Kd =11.14 nM) and effective tumor uptake (10.89 percentage of injected dose per gram of tumor) showed high binding affinity of 177Lu-DOTA-Peptide 2 to somatostatin receptors. 
Conclusion: 177Lu-DOTA-Peptide 2 demonstrated selective and high binding affinity to somatostatin receptors overexpressed on the surface of HT-29 cancer cells, which could make this radiopeptide suitable for somatostatin receptor-targeted radionuclide therapy.

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Asia Oceania Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Biology
Volume 8, Issue 2
July 2020
Pages 109-115

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