TY - JOUR
T1 - A new electrophoretic method for determining ligand
T2 - Technetium stoichiometry in carrier free 99mTc-radiopharmaceuticals
AU - Marzilli, L. G.
AU - Worley, P.
AU - Burns, H. D.
PY - 1979/1/1
Y1 - 1979/1/1
N2 - An electrophoretic procedure is outlined for the determination of the number of ligands bound to technetium-99m radiopharmaceuticals. The approach involves use of ligands that will complex technetium in a similar fashion but that differ in charge. This approach was applied experimentally to dimercapto ligands in which the ligating sulfur atoms are separated by a flexible three-carbon chain (1,3-dimercapto compounds). Two such ligands studied are 1,3-dimercaptopropane (DMP) and dihydrothioctic acid (DHTA). The Tc compound of DHTA migrates much farther on electrophoresis than the Tc complex of DMP. However, when TcO4- is reduced by SnCl2 or NaBH4 in the presence of equimolar quantities of DHTA and DMP, a new compound is formed being twice as abundant as either the TcDMP or the TcDHTA compound and migrating an intermediate distance. The formation of this new complex and the 1:2:1 distribution indicates that two 1,3-dimercapto compounds are attached to the Tc-center in all three compounds.
AB - An electrophoretic procedure is outlined for the determination of the number of ligands bound to technetium-99m radiopharmaceuticals. The approach involves use of ligands that will complex technetium in a similar fashion but that differ in charge. This approach was applied experimentally to dimercapto ligands in which the ligating sulfur atoms are separated by a flexible three-carbon chain (1,3-dimercapto compounds). Two such ligands studied are 1,3-dimercaptopropane (DMP) and dihydrothioctic acid (DHTA). The Tc compound of DHTA migrates much farther on electrophoresis than the Tc complex of DMP. However, when TcO4- is reduced by SnCl2 or NaBH4 in the presence of equimolar quantities of DHTA and DMP, a new compound is formed being twice as abundant as either the TcDMP or the TcDHTA compound and migrating an intermediate distance. The formation of this new complex and the 1:2:1 distribution indicates that two 1,3-dimercapto compounds are attached to the Tc-center in all three compounds.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 120423
AN - SCOPUS:0018388972
SN - 0161-5505
VL - 20
SP - 871
EP - 876
JO - Journal of Nuclear Medicine
JF - Journal of Nuclear Medicine
IS - 8
ER -