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SUBMITTER: Milicevic Sephton S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4904265 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Milicevic Sephton Selena S Aigbirhio Franklin I FI
ACS medicinal chemistry letters 20160412 6
In order to address the limitations associated with the present range of PET radiotracers used for imaging protein synthesis in vivo we have synthesized a candidate PET radiotracer based on Puromycin (3, PURO), a protein synthesis inhibitor. The desmethylPURO 9 precursor for radiolabeling with carbon-11 radioisotope was synthesized in two steps employing EDC/HOBt amide coupling in overall 76% yield. Optimal conditions for radiolabeling were then established via methylation/deprotection sequence. ...[more]