ArticleOncology letters2023
Visualization of epithelial cell adhesion molecule-expressing renal cell carcinoma xenografts using designed ankyrin repeat protein Ec1 labelled with
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- Emerging Applications of EpCAM-Targeted Nuclear Medicine Probes: Current Research and Future Perspectives.International journal of nanomedicine · 2025Review
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- Preclinical evaluation of EpCAM-binding designed ankyrin repeat proteins (DARPins) as targeting moieties for bimodal near-infrared fluorescence and photoacoustic imaging of cancer.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2024Article
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Abstract
The upregulation of epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) expression, found in a substantial fraction of renal cell carcinomas (RCCs), renders it a potential molecular target for the treatment of disseminated RCC. However, the heterogeneous expression of EpCAM necessitates first identifying the patients with sufficiently high expression of EpCAM in tumors. Using the specific radionuclide-based visualization of EpCAM might enable such identification. The designed ankyrin repeat protein, Ec1, is a small (molecular weight, 18 kDa) targeting protein with a subnanomolar affinity to EpCAM. Using a modified Ec1, a tracer was developed for the radionuclide-based visualization of EpCAM
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