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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
卷 61, 期 49, 页码 19663-19667出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c03329
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- Italian Ministry for University
The development of the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) contrast agents is limited by the sensitivity of the technique. This study improves the detectability threshold of CEST contrast by detecting a 31P signal from endogenous inorganic phosphate (Pifree) exchanged with an exogenous complex. The results demonstrate a significant improvement in detectability compared to conventional 1H CEST detection. This method has potential applications in biological studies and clinical settings.
Development of the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) contrast agents is hampered by the limited sensitivity of the technique. In water, the high proton concentration allows for an enormous amplification of the exchanging proton pool. However, the 1H CEST in water implies that the number of nuclear spins of the CEST-generating species has to be in the millimolar range. The use of nuclei other than a proton allows exploitation of signals different from that of water, thus lowering the concentration of the exchanging pool as the source of the CEST effect. In this work, we report on the detection of a 31P signal from endogenous inorganic phosphate (Pifree) as the source of CEST contrast by promoting its exchange with the Pi bound to the exogenous complex 1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-1,4,7-triacetic acid (Pibound). The herein-reported results demonstrate that this approach can improve the detectability threshold by 3 orders of magnitude with respect to the conventional 1H CEST detection (considered per single proton). This achievement reflects the decrease of the bulk concentration of the detected signal from 111.2 M (water) to 10 mM (Pi). This method paves the way to a number of biological studies and clinically translatable applications, herein addressed with a proof-of-concept in the field of cellular imaging.
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