Mizukami Shin, Takikawa Rika, Sugihara Fuminori, Hori Yuichiro, Tochio Hidehito, Wälchli Markus, Shirakawa Masahiro, Kikuchi Kazuya
Division of Advanced Science and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
J Am Chem Soc. 2008 Jan 23;130(3):794-5. doi: 10.1021/ja077058z. Epub 2007 Dec 23.
A novel design principle for 19F MRI probes detecting protease activity was developed. This principle is based on 19F MRI signal quenching by the intramolecular paramagnetic effect from Gd3+. The intramolecular Gd3+ dramatically attenuated the 19F probe signal, and the paramagnetic effect was cancelled by the probe hydrolyzation by caspase-3. Using this probe, it was shown that the probe could detect caspase-3 activity spatially from a phantom image using 19F MRI.