In these studies, the HER2-specific Affibody® molecule with albumin binding domain, ABD-(ZHER2:342)2-Cys, was used which was kindly provided by Affibody Co. through our Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). The ABD-HER2-Affibody was conjugated with AlexaFluor 750 with malemide linker (Invitrogen, Eugene, OR). Detail of the conjugation process can be found in (26 (link)). 17-Dimethylaminoethylamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin (17-DMAG) (InvivoGen, San Diego, CA), which is known as a heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) inhibitor, was used as therapeutic agent. It is known from the literature (34 (link)-36 (link)) that this drug (like a similar inhibitor 17-AAG) results in HER2 degradation due to HSP90 inhibition.