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BIOCONJUGATE CHEMISTRY
Volume 25, Issue 8, Pages 1526-1536Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bc500254g
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- Stanford University National Cancer Institute (NCI) Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence [1U54CA151459]
- NCI ICMIC@Stanford [1P50CA114747]
- Stanford Molecular Imaging Scholars (SMIS)
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Controlled self-assembly of small molecule gadolinium (Gd) complexes into nanoparticles (GdNPs) is emerging as an effective approach to design activatable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) probes and amplify the r(1) relaxivity. Herein, we employ a reduction-controlled macrocyclization reaction and self-assembly to develop a redox activated Gd-based MRI probe for sensing a reducing environment. Upon disulfide reduction at physiological conditions, an acyclic contrast agent 1 containing dual Gd-chelates undergoes intramolecular macro-cyclization to form rigid and hydrophobic macrocycles, which subsequently self-assemble into GdNPs, resulting in a similar to 60% increase in r(1) relaxivity at OS T. Probe 1 has high r(1) relaxivity (up to 34.2 mM(-1) s(-1) per molecule at 0.5 T) upon activation, and also shows a high sensitivity and specificity for MR detection of thiol-containing biomolecules.
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