Evaluation of integrin αvβ6 cystine knot PET tracers to detect cancer and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

oleh: Richard H. Kimura, Ling Wang, Bin Shen, Li Huo, Willemieke Tummers, Fabian V. Filipp, Haiwei Henry Guo, Thomas Haywood, Lotfi Abou-Elkacem, Lucia Baratto, Frezghi Habte, Rammohan Devulapally, Timothy H. Witney, Yan Cheng, Suhas Tikole, Subhendu Chakraborti, Jay Nix, Christopher A. Bonagura, Negin Hatami, Joshua J. Mooney, Tushar Desai, Scott Turner, Richard S. Gaster, Andrea Otte, Brendan C. Visser, George A. Poultsides, Jeffrey Norton, Walter Park, Mark Stolowitz, Kenneth Lau, Eric Yang, Arutselvan Natarajan, Ohad Ilovich, Shyam Srinivas, Ananth Srinivasan, Ramasamy Paulmurugan, Juergen Willmann, Frederick T. Chin, Zhen Cheng, Andrei Iagaru, Fang Li, Sanjiv S. Gambhir

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-10-01

Deskripsi

Knottin is a cystine knot peptide. Here, the authors develop a knottin-based tracer for positron emission tomography and demonstrate its ability to detect cancer and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis through selective binding to integrin αvβ6.