The goal of "personalised" medicine has seen a growing interest in the development of theranostic agents. Bifunctional, and targeted-trifunctional, theranostic water-soluble porphyrins with a histidine-like chelating group have been synthesised via copper-catalysed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) "click" chemistry in high yield and purity. They are capable of photodynamic treatment and [99mTc(CO)3]+ complexation for single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging, with a radiochemical yield of >95%. The toxicity and phototoxicity were evaluated on HT-29 cells, DU145, and DU145-PSMA cell lines, with the targeted theranostic showing more potent phototoxicity towards DU145-PSMA expressing cells.
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State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, PR China. Electronic address:
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Chinese Academy of Sciences Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functiaonal Nanostructures, YangQiao West Road 155#, 350002, Fuzhou, CHINA.
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Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de l'Université de Bourgogne (ICMUB), UMR 6302 CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 Dijon Cedex, France.
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Research Division, JIMRO Co., Ltd., Takasaki, Japan.
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School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, WB 700032, India.
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