Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

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

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11863-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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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.