Tracers / [177Lu]Lu-pentixather

[177Lu]Lu-pentixather

Also written as [177Lu]PentixaTher; [Lu-177]PentixaTher; Lu-177 Pentixather; Lu-177-Pentixather; PentixaTher
Radionuclide
Lu-177 t½ 9585 min
Modality
Therapy
Production route
Stage
Investigational (first-in-human / early clinical)
Syntheses indexed
15

What it is

Compound class
Radiolabelled cyclic pentapeptide, CXCR4 ligand (therapeutic beta-emitter conjugate)
Target / mechanism
Chemokine receptor CXCR4 PMID 26564323
Clinical application
CXCR4-directed endoradiotherapy in advanced-stage multiple myeloma with extensive intra- and extramedullary disease (first-in-human) PMID 26564323
Theranostic pair
<a href="/tracers/ga68-pentixafor/">ga68-pentixafor</a>

Regulatory status

FDA
No FDA (Drugs@FDA/openFDA): no pentixather product found
EMA (centralised)
No EMA medicines register export (2026-09-09): no 'pentixather' entry
Other approvals
Brand names

Clinical use

Typical injected activity
Uptake time

Reported in the literature. Not a dosing recommendation.

Published syntheses

ModuleCassettePurificationYield %RCP %Precursor / supplierSource
28529638
2017 Theranostics
Scintomics GRP / GRP-3V
Scintomics
none>98%pentixather28744319
2017 Theranostics
[177Lu]pentixather was prepared using a Scintomics GRP synthesis module (Scintomics, Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany).
41706122
2026 Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging
Scintomics GRP / GRP-3V
Scintomics
vendor cassettePentixather29290814
2018 Theranostics
using a GRP® module (SCINTOMICS GmbH, Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany)
32724470
2020 Theranostics
42244984
2026 Theranostics
40323995
2025 Clin Nucl Med
39744224
2025 Theranostics
Manual synthesisSPEpentixather acetate
ABX
37989124
2024 Radiat Res
Pentixather as a 1 μg/μl concentration in 300 μl of ascorbic acid buffer (50 mg/ml from Polatom, Poland) (pH 4) was mixed with 177LuCl3 (at approximately ratio of 1 μg per 37 MBq of 177Lutetium) at 95°C for 27 min with shaking (450 rpm).
32724470
2020 Theranostics
30850502
2019 J Nucl Med
Scintomics GRP / GRP-3V
Scintomics
vendor cassettePentixather29290814
2018 Theranostics
using a GRP® module (SCINTOMICS GmbH, Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany) equipped with disposable single-use cassette kits
Scintomics GRP / GRP-3V
Scintomics
none>98%pentixather28744319
2017 Theranostics
[177Lu]pentixather was prepared using a Scintomics GRP synthesis module (Scintomics, Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany)
26877786
2016 Theranostics
26564323
2016 J Nucl Med

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Quality control Preliminary — inferred from compound class

Ph. Eur. monograph
USP monograph
AppearancepHRCP HPLCHPLC UVRadionuclidic (HPGe)Half-lifeActivityEndotoxins (LAL)SterilityFilter integrityOsmolalityMolar activityMetal impuritiesLu-177m
How this set was arrived at. base set per Ph. Eur. general monograph 0125 (rule); radiometal tracer -> metal impurities (rule); Lu-177 preparation -> Lu-177m content (rule); therapeutic radiopharmaceutical -> osmolality (rule); receptor ligand with a saturable target -> molar activity (rule)

Tests listed by reference only. Monograph texts are copyrighted and are not reproduced here. How these are derived

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Notes

Added from reverse module search (stage 6); 3 article(s) with Lu-177.