NOVEL LIVER-TARGETING AGENTS AND THEIR SYNTHESIS

摘要

This invention provides novel liver targeting agents and their synthetic methods. A liver targeting agent, with a lysine based nitrilo triacetic acid structure as backbone which acquires multivalency with saccharide groups, to bind with a galactosamine chain or lactose chain is disclosed. In particular, only one amino acid L-lysine is involved to provide trivalency. All carboxyl groups in N&egr;-benzyloxycarbonyl-Nα-dicarboxymethyl-L-lysine can be conjugated with three glycosides of ahGalNAc or ahLac in one step. This invention also provides a hexa-lactoside. In particular, the TFA-AHA-Asp was used to conjugate 2 moles of NTA(ahLac)3. This invention also provides a method for adding a spacer between NTA and DTPA. The extended hepatocyte-specific glyco-ligand has higher 111In-radiolabelling yield than those non-extended.