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Review
. 2006;12(22):2723-47.
doi: 10.2174/138161206777947740.

Targeting RGD recognizing integrins: drug development, biomaterial research, tumor imaging and targeting

A Meyer  1 , J Auernheimer, A Modlinger, H Kessler
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Targeting RGD recognizing integrins: drug development, biomaterial research, tumor imaging and targeting

A Meyer et al. Curr Pharm Des. 2006.

Abstract

Integrins constitute an important class of cell adhesion receptors responsible not only for cell-matrix adhesion but also for signaling bidirectionally across the membrane. Integrins are involved in many biological processes such as angiogenesis, thrombosis, inflammation, osteoporosis and cancer. Integrins thus play a key role in many severe human diseases. In this review we will describe recent research and development of RGD-containing integrin ligands for medical applications including drug design, radiolabeling, drug targeting, as well as biomaterial research. Many ligands have been developed for targeting the avb3 integrin in order to block angiogenesis or osteoporosis, but there are also other integrins like avb5 and a5b1 which become more and more interesting for similar purposes. aIIbb3 constitutes a potent target in thrombosis therapy; but the search for suitable ligands is still ongoing. We will reconstruct the drug development process for these integrin subtypes considering selected examples with focus on structure based design. Different structural requirements are pointed out concerning integrin activity and particularly the selectivity towards the distinct integrin types. Furthermore, we will show recent progress in tumor and thrombosis imaging based on radiolabeled RGD-containing ligands binding avb3 or aIIbb3, respectively. Additionally further advances in biomaterial research are presented. We describe the coating of different implant materials with various avb3 recognizing ligands for the purpose of increasing cell attachment and biocompatibility.

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