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CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH
Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages 1063-1072Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-11-2462
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- Cancer Research UK-Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [C2536/A10337]
- UK Medical Research Council [MC US A6520030]
- MRC [MC_U120081322] Funding Source: UKRI
- Cancer Research UK [10337] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MC_U120081322] Funding Source: researchfish
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Purpose: C-11-Choline-positron emission tomography (PET) has been exploited to detect the aberrant choline metabolism in tumors. Radiolabeled choline uptake within the imaging time is primarily a function of transport, phosphorylation, and oxidation. Rapid choline oxidation, however, complicates interpretation of PET data. In this study, we investigated the biologic basis of the oxidation of deuterated choline analogs and assessed their specificity in human tumor xenografts. Experimental Design: C-11-Choline, C-11-methyl-[1,2-H-2(4)]-choline (C-11-D4-choline), and F-18-D4-choline were synthesized to permit comparison. Biodistribution, metabolism, small-animal PET studies, and kinetic analysis of tracer uptake were carried out in human colon HCT116 xenograft-bearing mice. Results: Oxidation of choline analogs to betaine was highest with C-11-choline, with reduced oxidation observed with C-11-D4-choline and substantially reduced with F-18-D4-choline, suggesting that both fluorination and deuteration were important for tracer metabolism. Although all tracers were converted intracellularly to labeled phosphocholine (specific signal), the higher rate constants for intracellular retention (Ki and k(3)) of C-11-choline and C-11-D4-choline, compared with F-18-D4-choline, were explained by the rapid conversion of the nonfluorinated tracers to betaine within HCT116 tumors. Imaging studies showed that the uptake of F-18-D4-choline in three tumors with similar radiotracer delivery (K-1) and choline kinase alpha expression-HCT116, A375, and PC3-M-were the same, suggesting that F-18-D4-choline has utility for cancer detection irrespective of histologic type. Conclusion: We have shown here that both deuteration and fluorination combine to provide protection against choline oxidation in vivo. F-18-D4-choline showed the highest selectivity for phosphorylation and warrants clinical evaluation. Clin Cancer Res; 18(4); 1063-72. (C)2012 AACR.
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