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. 2019 May 14;10:510. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2019.00510

Table 2.

Comprehensive overview of potential activatable FIGS tracers.

Tracer type Compound name Molecular target Imaging target Reporter fluorophore(s) References Remarks
Activatables; Cell-binding based Antibody Cetuximab EGFR Pancreatic cancerO AF660 (Obaid et al., 2017) IRDye QC-1 quencher
Trastuzumab HER2 Lung cancerS ATTO680 (Kim et al., 2017) Molecular switch
J591 PSMA Prostate cancerS ICG (Nakajima et al., 2011)
Minibody PSMA-Mb PSMA Prostate cancerS ICG (Watanabe et al., 2014)
Diabody PSMA-Cys-Db PSMA Prostate cancerS ICG (Sano et al., 2013)
Peptide EGF EGFR Breast cancerS, Skin cancerS ATTO655, Cy5.5 (Ryu et al., 2013; Kim et al., 2019) BHQ3 Quencher (Cy5.5)
Activatables; enzyme-activated HMRef-bGal β-Galactosidase Ovarian cancerIp HMRef (Asanuma et al., 2015) Spirocyclic
6QCNIR Cathepsins Breast cancerO, Lung cancerTg DyLight780-B1 (Ofori et al., 2015) IRDye QC-1 quencher
BMV109 Cathepsins Colorectal cancerTg Cy5 (Segal et al., 2015) QSY21 quencher
GB119 Cathepsins GliomaO, Skin cancerEv Cy5 (Cutter et al., 2012; Walker et al., 2017) QSY21 quencher
LUM015 Cathepsins Breast cancerC, O, Soft tissue sarcomaC, O Cy5 (Whitley et al., 2016; Smith et al., 2018) Clinical trial, QSY21 quencher
Z-Phe-Arg-HMRG Cathepsins Ovarian CancerIp Hydroxymethyl rhodamine green (Fujii et al., 2014) Spirocyclic
ANPFAP FAP-α GliomaS Cy5.5 (Li et al., 2012) QSY21 quencher
gGlu-HMRG GGT Breast cancerEv, Colorectal cancerEv, Head and Neck cancerO Hydroxymethyl rhodamine green (Urano et al., 2011; Sato et al., 2015; Ueo et al., 2015; Slooter et al., 2018) Spirocyclic
HMRef-βGlcNAc Hexosaminidase Colorectal cancerEv, Ip HMRef (Matsuzaki et al., 2016) Spirocyclic
Q3STCy hNQO1 Ovarian cancerEv, Ip TCy (Shen et al., 2017) Q3 is target specific, and quencher
AVB-620 MMP-1,9, … Breast cancerO, Pancreatic cancerO Cy5 (Metildi et al., 2015; Miampamba et al., 2017; Unkart et al., 2017) Clinical trial, Cy7 quencher

*C, In clinical trial; Ev, Ex vivo human tumor samples; Ip, small animal intraperitoneally disseminated tumor model; O, small animal orthotopic tumor model; S, small animal subcutaneous tumor model; Tg, small animal transgenic spontaneous tumor model.

EGFR, epidermal growth factor receptor; EpCAM, epithelial cell adhesion molecule; FAP-α, fibroblast activation protein alpha; GGT, gamma-glutamyltransferase; hNQO1, human NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase type I; MMP-1/9, matrix metalloproteinase 1/9; PSMA, prostate specific membrane antigen.