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- Title
An Optimized Triple Modality Reporter for Quantitative <i>In Vivo</i> Tumor Imaging and Therapy Evaluation.
- Authors
Levin, Rachel A.; Felsen, Csilla N.; Yang, Jin; Lin, John Y.; Whitney, Michael A.; Nguyen, Quyen T.; Tsien, Roger Y.
- Abstract
We present an optimized triple modality reporter construct combining a far-red fluorescent protein (E2-Crimson), enhanced firefly luciferase enzyme (Luc2), and truncated wild type herpes simplex virus I thymidine kinase (wttk) that allows for sensitive, long-term tracking of tumor growth in vivo by fluorescence, bioluminescence, and positron emission tomography. Two human cancer cell lines (MDA-MB-231 breast cancer and HT-1080 fibrosarcoma cancer) were successfully transduced to express this triple modality reporter. Fluorescence and bioluminescence imaging of the triple modality reporter were used to accurately quantify the therapeutic responses of MDA-MB-231 tumors to the chemotherapeutic agent monomethyl auristatin E in vivo in athymic nude mice. Positive correlation was observed between the fluorescence and bioluminescence signals, and these signals were also positively correlated with the ex vivo tumor weights. This is the first reported use of both fluorescence and bioluminescence signals from a multi-modality reporter construct to measure drug efficacy in vivo.
- Subjects
IMAGING of cancer; BIOLUMINESCENCE; POSITRON emission tomography; TUMOR treatment; CANCER chemotherapy; PHARMACODYNAMICS
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2014, Vol 9, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0097415