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Automated sulfur-[18F]fluoride exchange radiolabelling of a prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) targeted ligand using the GE FASTlab™ cassette-based platform (2023)
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Yang, Z., Barnes, C., Domarkas, J., Koch-Paszkowski, J., Wright, J., Amgheib, A., …Allott, L. (2023). Automated sulfur-[18F]fluoride exchange radiolabelling of a prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) targeted ligand using the GE FASTlab™ cassette-based platform. Reaction Chemistry and Engineering, 8(10), 2403-2407. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3re00307h

Sulfur-[18F]fluoride exchange radiochemistry is a rapid and convenient method for incorporating fluorine-18 into biologically active molecules. We report a fully automated radiolabelling procedure for the synthesis of a [18F]SO3F-bearing prostate spe... Read More about Automated sulfur-[18F]fluoride exchange radiolabelling of a prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) targeted ligand using the GE FASTlab™ cassette-based platform.

Design, synthesis, and evaluation of a novel PET imaging agent targeting lipofuscin in senescent cells (2022)
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Brickute, D., Chen, C., Braga, M., Barnes, C., Wang, N., Allott, L., & Aboagye, E. O. (2022). Design, synthesis, and evaluation of a novel PET imaging agent targeting lipofuscin in senescent cells. RSC advances, 12(40), 26372-26381. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ra04535d

Promoting a senescent phenotype to suppress tumour progression may present an alternative strategy for treating cancer and encourages the development of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging biomarkers for assessing response to treatment. The ac... Read More about Design, synthesis, and evaluation of a novel PET imaging agent targeting lipofuscin in senescent cells.

A practical guide to automating fluorine-18 PET radiochemistry using commercially available cassette-based platforms (2022)
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Barnes, C., Nair, M., Aboagye, E. O., Archibald, S. J., & Allott, L. (2022). A practical guide to automating fluorine-18 PET radiochemistry using commercially available cassette-based platforms. Reaction Chemistry and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1039/d2re00219a

The automation of positron emission tomography (PET) radiochemistry using cassette-based automated radiosynthesis platforms is an essential component of clinical translation for the vast majority of 18F-based radiopharmaceuticals. The technology is w... Read More about A practical guide to automating fluorine-18 PET radiochemistry using commercially available cassette-based platforms.

A kit-based aluminium-[18F]fluoride approach to radiolabelled microbubbles (2021)
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Teh, J., Costa-Braga, M., Allott, L., Barnes, C., Hernandez-Gil, J., Tang, M., …Long, N. J. (2021). A kit-based aluminium-[18F]fluoride approach to radiolabelled microbubbles. Chemical communications : Chem comm / the Royal Society of Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cc04790f

The production of 18F-labelled microbubbles (MBs) via the aluminium-[18F]fluoride ([18F]AlF) radiolabelling method and facile inverse-electron-demand Diels-Alder (IEDDA) ‘click’ chemistry is reported. An [18F]AlF-NODA-labelled tetrazine was synthesis... Read More about A kit-based aluminium-[18F]fluoride approach to radiolabelled microbubbles.

The aluminium-[18F]fluoride revolution: simple radiochemistry with a big impact for radiolabelled biomolecules (2021)
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Archibald, S. J., & Allott, L. (2021). The aluminium-[18F]fluoride revolution: simple radiochemistry with a big impact for radiolabelled biomolecules. EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and Chemistry, 6(1), Article 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41181-021-00141-0

The aluminium-[18F]fluoride ([18F]AlF) radiolabelling method combines the favourable decay characteristics of fluorine-18 with the convenience and familiarity of metal-based radiochemistry and has been used to parallel gallium-68 radiopharmaceutical... Read More about The aluminium-[18F]fluoride revolution: simple radiochemistry with a big impact for radiolabelled biomolecules.

Novel Non-Congeneric Derivatives of the Choline Kinase Alpha Inhibitor ICL-CCIC-0019 (2021)
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Wang, N., Brickute, D., Braga, M., Barnes, C., Lu, H., Allott, L., & Aboagye, E. O. (2021). Novel Non-Congeneric Derivatives of the Choline Kinase Alpha Inhibitor ICL-CCIC-0019. Pharmaceutics, 13(7), Article 1078. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics13071078

Choline kinase alpha (CHKA) is a promising target for the development of cancer therapeutics. We have previously reported ICL-CCIC-0019, a potent CHKA inhibitor with high cellular activity but with some unfavorable pharmacological properties. In this... Read More about Novel Non-Congeneric Derivatives of the Choline Kinase Alpha Inhibitor ICL-CCIC-0019.

Detecting hypoxia in vitro using 18F-pretargeted IEDDA “click” chemistry in live cells (2021)
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Allott, L., Chen, C., Braga, M., Leung, S. F. J., Wang, N., Barnes, C., …Aboagye, E. O. (in press). Detecting hypoxia in vitro using 18F-pretargeted IEDDA “click” chemistry in live cells. RSC advances, 11(33), 20335-20341. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ra02482e

We have exemplified a pretargeted approach to interrogate hypoxia in live cells using radioactive bioorthogonal inverse electron demand Diels–Alder (IEDDA) “click” chemistry. Our novel 18F-tetrazine probe ([18F]FB-Tz) and 2-nitroimidazole-based TCO t... Read More about Detecting hypoxia in vitro using 18F-pretargeted IEDDA “click” chemistry in live cells.

Radiolabelling an 18F biologic via facile IEDDA “click” chemistry on the GE FASTLab™ platform (2021)
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Allott, L., Amgheib, A., Barnes, C., Braga, M., Brickute, D., Wang, N., …Aboagye, E. O. (in press). Radiolabelling an 18F biologic via facile IEDDA “click” chemistry on the GE FASTLab™ platform. Reaction Chemistry and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1039/d1re00117e

The use of biologics in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is an important area of radiopharmaceutical development and new automated methods are required to facilitate their production. We report an automated radiosynthesis method to produce... Read More about Radiolabelling an 18F biologic via facile IEDDA “click” chemistry on the GE FASTLab™ platform.

Development of PDT/PET theranostics: synthesis and biological evaluation of an ¹⁸F-radiolabeled water soluble porphyrin (2015)
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Entract, G. M., Bryden, F., Domarkas, J., Savoie, H., Allott, L., Archibald, S. J., …Boyle, R. W. (2015). Development of PDT/PET theranostics: synthesis and biological evaluation of an ¹⁸F-radiolabeled water soluble porphyrin. Molecular pharmaceutics, 12(12), 4414-4423. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.5b00606

Synthesis of the first water-soluble porphyrin radiolabeled with fluorine-18 is described: a new molecular theranostic agent which integrates the therapeutic selectivity of photodynamic therapy (PDT) with the imaging efficacy of positron emission tom... Read More about Development of PDT/PET theranostics: synthesis and biological evaluation of an ¹⁸F-radiolabeled water soluble porphyrin.