Radiolabeled nanobodies for tumor targeting: From bioengineering to imaging and therapy

Piramoon, Majid and Khodadust, Fatemeh and Hosseinimehr, Seyed Jalal (2021) Radiolabeled nanobodies for tumor targeting: From bioengineering to imaging and therapy. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer.

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Abstract

So far, numerous molecules and biomolecules have been evaluated for tumor targeting purposes for radionuclide-based imaging and therapy modalities. Due to the high affinity and specificity against tumor antigens, monoclonal antibodies are appropriate candidates for tumor targeting. However, their large size prevents their comprehensive application in radionuclide-based tumor imaging or therapy, since it leads to their low tumor penetration, low blood clearance, and thus inappropriate tumor-to-background ratio. Nowadays, the variable domain of heavy-chain antibodies from the Camelidae family, known as nanobodies (Nbs), turns into exciting candidates for medical research. Considering several innate advantages of these new tumor-targeting agents, including excellent affinity and specificity toward antigen, high solubility, high stability, fast washout from blood, convenient production, ease of selection, and low immunogenicity, it assumes that they may overcome generic problems of monoclonal antibodies, their fragments, and other vectors for tumor imaging/therapy. After three decades of Nbs discovery, the increasing number of their preclinical and clinical investigations, which have led to outstanding results, confirm their application for tumor targeting purposes. This review describes Nbs characteristics, the diagnostic and therapeutic application of their radioconjugates, and their recent advances.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica
Divisions: Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences > School of Medicine
Depositing User: samira sepahvandy
Date Deposited: 07 Mar 2021 04:56
Last Modified: 07 Mar 2021 04:56
URI: http://eprints.lums.ac.ir/id/eprint/2667

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