EMBO Molecular Medicine (Apr 2024)

ImmunoPET imaging of Trop2 in patients with solid tumours

  • Wei Huang,
  • You Zhang,
  • Min Cao,
  • Yanfei Wu,
  • Feng Jiao,
  • Zhaohui Chu,
  • Xinyuan Zhou,
  • Lianghua Li,
  • Dongsheng Xu,
  • Xinbing Pan,
  • Yihui Guan,
  • Gang Huang,
  • Jianjun Liu,
  • Fang Xie,
  • Weijun Wei

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44321-024-00059-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 5
pp. 1143 – 1161

Abstract

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Abstract Accurately predicting and selecting patients who can benefit from targeted or immunotherapy is crucial for precision therapy. Trophoblast cell surface antigen 2 (Trop2) has been extensively investigated as a pan-cancer biomarker expressed in various tumours and plays a crucial role in tumorigenesis through multiple signalling pathways. Our laboratory successfully developed two 68Ga-labelled nanobody tracers that can rapidly and specifically target Trop2. Of the two tracers, [68Ga]Ga-NOTA-T4, demonstrated excellent pharmacokinetics in preclinical mouse models and a beagle dog. Moreover, [68Ga]Ga-NOTA-T4 immuno-positron emission tomography (immunoPET) allowed noninvasive visualisation of Trop2 heterogeneous and differential expression in preclinical solid tumour models and ten patients with solid tumours. [68Ga]Ga-NOTA-T4 immunoPET could facilitate clinical decision-making through patient stratification and response monitoring during Trop2-targeted therapies.

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