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Title: Somatostatin analogs
Abstract:This invention relates to therapeutic reagents and peptides, including radiotherapeutic reagents and peptides, radiodiagnostic reagents and peptides, and methods for producing labeled radiodiagnostic agents. Specifically, the invention relates to cyclic peptide derivatives and analogs of somatostatin, and embodiments of such peptides radiolabeled with a radioisotope, as well as methods and kits for making, radiolabeling and using such peptides for radiodiagnostic and radiotherapeutic purposes. The invention specifically relates to cyclic peptide derivatives and analogues of somatostatin radiolabeled with technetium-99m and uses thereof as scintigraphic imaging agents. The invention also specifically relates to cyclic peptide derivatives and analogues of somatostatin radiolabeled with cytotoxic radioisotopes such as rhenium-186 (.sup.186 Re) and rhenium-188 (.sup.188 Re) for use as radiotherapeutic agents. Methods and kits for making, radiolabeling and using such peptides diagnostically and therapeutically in a mammalian body are also provided.
Inventor(s): Dean; Richard T. (Bedford, NH)
Assignee: Diatide, Inc. (Londonderry, NH)
Filing Date:Oct 19, 1999
Application Number:09/420,865
Claims:1. A somatostatin receptor-binding peptide having a formula:

wherein

B.sup.1 is D- or L-Phe or D- or L-Tyr or D- or L-Nal or Ain;

B.sup.2 is D- or L-Trp;

B.sup.3 is D- or L-Lys or Hly, Achxa, Amf, Aec, Apc, Aes, or Aps;

B.sup.4 is Thr, Ser, Val, Phe, Ile, Abu, Nle, Leu, Nva or Aib;

C.sup.4 is an L-amino acid having a sidechain comprising a mercapto group;

A.sup.4 is a lipophilic D-amino acid or a lipophilic L-(.alpha.-N-alkyl)amino acid or L-proline;

wherein A.sup.4 and C.sup.4 are covalently linked through an amino terminus of A.sup.4 and a carboxyl terminus of C.sup.4.

2. The peptide of claim 1, wherein B.sup.1 is phenylalanine or tyrosine, B.sup.2 is D-tryptophan, B.sup.3 is lysine and B.sup.4 is threonine or valine.

3. The peptide of claim 1, further comprising a radioisotope selected from the group consisting of iodine-123, iodine-125, iodine-131, and astatine-211.

4. A multimer having a molecular weight of less than about 20,000 daltons comprising:

a) at least two somatostatin receptor-binding peptides, each having a formula:

wherein

B.sup.1 is D- or L-Phe or D- or L-Tyr or D- or L-Nal or Ain;

B.sup.2 is D- or L-Trp;

B.sup.3 is D- or L-Lys or Hly, Achxa, Amf, Aec, Apc, Aes, or Aps;

B.sup.4 is Thr, Ser, Val, Phe, Ile, Abu, Nle, Leu, Nva or Aib;

C.sup.4 is an L-amino acid having a sidechain comprising a mercapto group;

A.sup.4 is a lipophilic D-amino acid or a lipophilic L-(.alpha.-N-alkyl)amino acid or L-proline;

wherein A.sup.4 and C.sup.4 are covalently linked through an amino terminus of A.sup.4 and a carboxyl terminus of C.sup.4 ; and

b) a polyvalent linker covalently linked to each peptide.

5. The multimer of claim 4, wherein the linker is selected from the group consisting of bis-succinimidylmethylether, 4-(2,2-dimethylacetyl)benzoic acid, N-[2-(N',N'-bis(2-succinimidoethyl)aminoethyl)]-N.sup.6,N.sup.9 -bis(2-methyl-2-mercaptopropyl)-6,9-diazanonanamide, tris(succinimidylethyl)amine, bis-succinimidohexane, and 4-(O--CH.sub.2 CO-Gly-Gly-Cys.amide)-2-methylpropiophenone.

6. A kit for preparing a radiopharmaceutical preparation, said kit comprising a sealed vial containing a predetermined quantity of the peptide of claim 1.

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