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  2. Radiosynthesis and in Vivo Evaluation of [11C]A1070722, a High Affinity GSK-3 PET Tracer in Primate Brain

Radiosynthesis and in Vivo Evaluation of [11C]A1070722, a High Affinity GSK-3 PET Tracer in Primate Brain

  • ACS Chem Neurosci. 2017 Aug 16;8(8):1697-1703. doi: 10.1021/acschemneuro.6b00376.
Jaya Prabhakaran 1 2 Francesca Zanderigo 1 2 Kiran Kumar Solingapuram Sai 3 Harry Rubin-Falcone 1 Matthew J Jorgensen 4 Jay R Kaplan 4 Akiva Mintz 3 J John Mann 1 2 J S Dileep Kumar 2
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Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center , New York, New York 10032, United States.
  • 2 Division of Molecular Imaging and Neuropathology, New York State Psychiatric Institute , New York, New York 10032, United States.
  • 3 Department of Radiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine , Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101, United States.
  • 4 Department of Pathology, Section on Comparative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine , Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101, United States.
Abstract

Dysfunction of glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3) is implicated in the etiology of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, pain, and Cancer. A radiotracer for functional positron emission tomography (PET) imaging could be used to study the kinase in brain disorders and to facilitate the development of small molecule inhibitors of GSK-3 for treatment. At present, there is no target-specific or validated PET tracer available for the in vivo monitoring of GSK-3. We radiolabeled the small molecule inhibitor [11C]1-(7-methoxy- quinolin-4-yl)-3-(6-(trifluoromethyl)pyridin-2-yl)urea ([11C]A1070722) with high affinity to GSK-3 (Ki = 0.6 nM) in excellent radiochemical yield. PET imaging experiments in anesthetized vervet/African green monkey exhibited that [11C]A1070722 penetrated the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and accumulated in brain regions, with highest radioactivity binding in frontal cortex followed by parietal cortex and anterior cingulate, and with the lowest bindings found in caudate, putamen, and thalamus, similarly to the known distribution of GSK-3 in human brain. Our studies suggest that [11C]A1070722 can be a potential PET radiotracer for the in vivo quantification of GSK-3 in brain.

Keywords

GSK-3; PET; brain; radiotracer.

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