Development of Polar BODIPY-Tetrazines for Rapid Pretargeted Fluorescence Imaging

Markus Staudt, Lars Hvass, Marius Müller, Rocío García-Vázquez, Jesper Tranekjær Jo Rgensen, Vladimir Shalgunov, Umberto Maria Battisti, Andreas Kjær*, Matthias M Herth*

*Corresponding author for this work

Abstract

Polar BODIPY-tetrazine dyes were developed and clicked in vivo to a preaccumulated trans-cyclooctene-modified anti-TAG72 monoclonal antibody CC49 (CC49-TCO). The in vivo click performance was evaluated using an in-house developed ex vivo blocking assay. All tested polar BODIPY structures exhibited excellent in vivo binding, confirming that the turn-on tetrazine dyes successfully clicked in vivo to pretargeted CC49-TCO. Fluorescence imaging showed high tumor-to-muscle ratios of 4:1. This proof-of-concept study indicates that the pretargeting concept based on turn-on probes could be used for cancer treatments, such as photodynamic or -thermal therapy.

Original languageEnglish
JournalACS omega
Volume9
Issue number41
Pages (from-to)42498-42505
Number of pages8
ISSN2470-1343
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Oct 2024

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