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An imaging agent to detect androgen receptor and its active splice variants in prostate cancer
Yusuke Imamura, … , Raymond J. Andersen, Marianne D. Sadar
Yusuke Imamura, … , Raymond J. Andersen, Marianne D. Sadar
Published July 21, 2016
Citation Information: JCI Insight. 2016;1(11):e87850. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.87850.
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An imaging agent to detect androgen receptor and its active splice variants in prostate cancer

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Abstract

Constitutively active splice variants of androgen receptor (AR-Vs) lacking ligand-binding domain (LBD) are a mechanism of resistance to androgen receptor LBD–targeted (AR LBD–targeted) therapies for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). There is a strong unmet clinical need to identify prostate cancer patients with AR-V–positive lesions to determine whether they will benefit from further AR LBD–targeting therapies or should receive taxanes or investigational drugs like EPI-506 or galeterone. Both EPI-506 (NCT02606123) and galeterone (NCT02438007) are in clinical trials and are proposed to have efficacy against lesions that are positive for AR-Vs. AR activation function-1 (AF-1) is common to the N-terminal domains of full-length AR and AR-Vs. Here, we provide proof of concept for developing imaging compounds that directly bind AR AF-1 to detect both AR-Vs and full-length AR. 123I-EPI-002 had specific binding to AR AF-1, which enabled direct visualization of CRPC xenografts that express full-length AR and AR-Vs. Our findings highlight the potential of 123I-EPI-002 as an imaging agent for the detection of full-length AR and AR-Vs in CRPC.

Authors

Yusuke Imamura, Amy H. Tien, Jinhe Pan, Jacky K. Leung, Carmen A. Banuelos, Kunzhong Jian, Jun Wang, Nasrin R. Mawji, Javier Garcia Fernandez, Kuo-Shyan Lin, Raymond J. Andersen, Marianne D. Sadar

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