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Selective Tumor Targeting of Desacetyl Vinblastine Hydrazide and Tubulysin B via Conjugation to a Cholecystokinin 2 Receptor (CCK2R) Ligand

Journal

MOLECULAR PHARMACEUTICS
Volume 12, Issue 7, Pages 2477-2483

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.5b00218

Keywords

CCK2R; cholecystokinin 2 receptor; tubulysin; vinblastine; targeted therapy

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  1. Purdue University

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As the delivery of selectively targeted cytotoxic agents via antibodies or small molecule ligands to malignancies has begun to show promise in the clinic, the need to identify and validate additional cellular targets for specific therapeutic delivery is critical. Although a multitude of cancers have been targeted using the folate receptor, PSMA, bombesin receptor, somatostatin receptor, LHRH, and alpha(v)beta(3), there is a notable lack of specific small molecule ligand/receptor pairs to cellular targets found within cancers of the GI tract. Because of the selective GI tract expression of the cholecystokinin 2 receptor (CCK2R), we undertook the creation of conjugates that would deliver microtubule-disrupting drugs to malignancies through the specific targeting of CCK2R via a high affinity small molecule ligand. The c-ytotoxic activity of these conjugates were shown to be receptor mediated in vitro and in vivo with xenograft mouse models exhibiting delayed growth or regression of tumors that expressed CCK2R Overall, this work demonstrates that ligands to CCK2R can be used to create selectively targeted therapeutic conjugates.

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