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Published in final edited form as: Mol Imaging Biol. 2020 Aug;22(4):805–819. doi: 10.1007/s11307-019-01430-6

Table 5.

Data on metabolism of F-18 labeled tryptophan derivative tracers by IDO and TDO enzymes.

Author Year Tracer name Study type Result
Chiotellis, et al. 2016 6-(2-[18F]fluoroethoxy)-DL-tryptophan
2-(3-[18F]fluoropropyl)-DL-tryptophan
5-hydroxy-2-(3-[18F]fluoropropyl)-DL-tryptophan
5-hydroxy-2-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-DL-tryptophan
in vitro enzyme assays with rhIDO not substrate for IDO (no oxygenation was found)
Tang, et al. 2017 5-[18F] fluoro-L-tryptophan

5-[18F]fluoro-D-tryptophan
in vitro enzyme assays with hIDO1 and hTDO2

in vitro cell uptake studies of cells with diverse IDO1 and TDO2 expression
substrate for IDO1 and TDO2
not substrate for IDO1 and TDO2
Zlatopolskiy, et al. 2018 4-[18F]fluorotryptophan
5-[18F]fluorotryptophan
6-[18F]fluorotryptophan
7-[18F]fluorotryptophan
in vitro cell uptake studies using IFN-γ treated and non-treated cells

in vivo dynamic uptake studies
substrate for IDO
substrate for IDO
substrate for IDO
not substrate for TDO and IDO, inhibitor of both enzymes
Giglio, et al. 2017 5-[18F] fluoro-α-methyl-tryptophan in vitro enzyme assays
in vitro uptake study using IFN-γ treated cells
substrate for IDO1
Henrottin, et al. 2016 1-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-L-tryptophan in vitro enzyme assays with rhIDO
in vitro cell uptake studies of cells with diverse IDO expression
good and specific substrate for IDO
Xin, et al. 2017 1-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-L-tryptophan in vitro cell uptake studies using IFN-γ treated and non-treated cells substrate for IDO
Xin, et al. 2019 1-(2-[18F] fluoroethyl)-L-tryptophan radio-HPLC of tumor extracts 30% of the tracer was converted to a radioactive kynurenine metabolite

Abbreviations: rhIDO: recombinant human indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase; hTDO: human tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase; IFNγ: interferon-γ; HPLC: high-performance liquid chromatography.