Issue 20, 2021

Dual contrast agents for fluorescence and photoacoustic imaging: evaluation in a murine model of prostate cancer

Abstract

Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is a promising diagnostic and therapeutic target for prostate cancer (PC). Poly(amidoamine) [PAMAM] dendrimers serve as versatile scaffolds for imaging agents and drug delivery that can be tailored to different sizes and compositions depending upon the application. We have developed PSMA-targeted PAMAM dendrimers for real-time detection of PC using fluorescence (FL) and photoacoustic (PA) imaging. A generation-4, ethylenediamine core, amine-terminated dendrimer was consecutively conjugated with on average 10 lysine-glutamate-urea PSMA targeting moieties and a different number of sulfo-cyanine7.5 (Cy7.5) near-infrared dyes (2, 4, 6 and 8 denoted as conjugates II, III, IV and V, respectively). The remaining terminal primary amines were capped with butane-1,2-diol functionalities. We also prepared a conjugate composed of Cy7.5-lysine-suberic acid-lysine glutamate-urea (I) and control dendrimer conjugate (VI). Among all conjugates, IV showed superior in vivo target specificity in male NOD-SCID mice bearing isogenic PSMA+ PC3 PIP and PSMA PC3 flu xenografts and suitable physicochemical properties for FL and PA imaging. Such agents may prove useful in PC cancer detection and subsequent surgical guidance during excision of PSMA-expressing lesions.

Graphical abstract: Dual contrast agents for fluorescence and photoacoustic imaging: evaluation in a murine model of prostate cancer

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
31 Jan 2021
Accepted
27 Apr 2021
First published
30 Apr 2021

Nanoscale, 2021,13, 9217-9228

Author version available

Dual contrast agents for fluorescence and photoacoustic imaging: evaluation in a murine model of prostate cancer

W. G. Lesniak, Y. Wu, J. Kang, S. Boinapally, S. Ray Banerjee, A. Lisok, A. Jablonska, E. M. Boctor and M. G. Pomper, Nanoscale, 2021, 13, 9217 DOI: 10.1039/D1NR00669J

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