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Acid Specific Dark Quencher QC1 pHLIP for Multi-Spectral Optoacoustic Diagnoses of Breast Cancer

Acid Specific Dark Quencher QC1 pHLIP for Multi-Spectral Optoacoustic Diagnoses of Breast Cancer

Sheryl Roberts, Arianna Strome, Crystal Choi, Chrysafis Andreou, Susanne Kossatz, Christian Brand, Travis Williams, Michelle Bradbury, Moritz F Kircher, Yana K Reshetnyak, Jan Grimm, Jason S Lewis, Thomas Reiner

Sci Rep. 2019 Jun 12;9(1):8550.

PMID: 31189972

Abstract:

Breast cancer is the most common type of malignant growth in women. Early detection of breast cancer, as well as the identification of possible metastatic spread poses a significant challenge because of the structural and genetic heterogeneity that occurs during the progression of the disease. Currently, mammographies, biopsies and MRI scans are the standard of care techniques used for breast cancer diagnosis, all of which have their individual shortfalls, especially when it comes to discriminating tumors and benign growths. With this in mind, we have developed a non-invasive optoacoustic imaging strategy that targets the acidic environment of breast cancer. A pH low insertion peptide (pHLIP) was conjugated to the dark quencher QC1, yielding a non-fluorescent sonophore with high extinction coefficient in the near infrared that increases signal as a function of increasing amounts of membrane insertion. In an orthotopic murine breast cancer model, pHLIP-targeted optoacoustic imaging allowed us to differentiate between healthy and breast cancer tissues with high signal/noise ratios. In vivo, the sonophore QC1-pHLIP could detect malignancies at higher contrast than its fluorescent analog ICG-pHLIP, which was developed for fluorescence-guided surgical applications. PHLIP-type optoacoustic imaging agents in clinical settings are attractive due to their ability to target breast cancer and a wide variety of other malignant growths for diagnostic purposes. Intuitively, these agents could also be used for visualization during surgery.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP403718456	Qc1		403718-45-6	Price

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