Multimodal image-guided enzyme/prodrug cancer therapy

C Li, PT Winnard, T Takagi, D Artemov…

Index: Li, Cong; Winnard Jr., Paul T.; Takagi, Tomoyo; Artemov, Dmitri; Bhujwalla, Zaver M. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2006 ,  vol. 128,  # 47  p. 15072 - 15073

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Abstract

The conjugate of bacterial cytosine deaminase (bCD) and poly-l-lysine (PLL) that was functionalized with biotin, rhodamine, and Gd3+-DOTA was synthesized and characterized. It demonstrated high relaxivity, improved enzymatic specificity to prodrug 5-fluorocytosine, low cytotoxicity, efficient cell uptake, and high enzymatic stability in fresh mouse serum and human breast cancer cell culture.