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Supplementary Methods S1 from First-in-Human Study of the Radioligand 68Ga-N188 Targeting Nectin-4 for PET/CT Imaging of Advanced Urothelial Carcinoma

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posted on 2023-09-01, 08:21 authored by Xiaojiang Duan, Lei Xia, Zhuochen Zhang, Yanan Ren, Martin G. Pomper, Steven P. Rowe, Xuesong Li, Nan Li, Ning Zhang, Hua Zhu, Zhi Yang, Xinan Sheng, Xing Yang

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

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ARTICLE ABSTRACT

Nectin-4 is an emerging biomarker for cancer diagnosis and therapy. Recently, enfortumab vedotin (EV) was approved by the FDA as the first nectin-4 targeting antibody–drug conjugate for treating advanced urothelial carcinoma (UC). A PET imaging method to noninvasively quantify nectin-4 expression level would potentially help to select patients most likely to respond to EV and predict the response. In this study, we designed a bicyclic peptide-based nectin-4 targeting radiotracer 68Ga-N188. Initially, we performed preclinical evaluations of 68Ga-N188 in UC cell lines and xenograft mouse models. Next, we performed the translational study in healthy volunteers and a pilot cohort of patients with advanced UC on uEXPLORER total-body PET/CT. In the preclinical study, 68Ga-N188 showed high affinity to nectin-4, specific uptake in a nectin-4(+) xenograft mouse model, and suitable pharmacokinetic and safety profiles. In the translational study, 2 healthy volunteers and 14 patients with advanced UC were enrolled. The pharmacokinetic profile was determined for 68Ga-N188, and the nectin-4 relative expression level in different organs was quantitatively imaged. A clear correlation between PET SUV value and nectin-4 expression was observed, supporting the application of 68Ga-N188 PET as a companion diagnostic tool for optimizing treatments that target nectin-4.See related commentary by Jiang et al., p. 3259

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