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Meng JH, Huang YB, Long J, Cai QC, Qiao X, Zhang QL, Zhang LD, Yan X, Jing R, Liu XS, Zhou SJ, Yuan YS, Yin-Chen Ma, Zhou LX, Peng NN, Li XC, Cai CH, Tang HM, Martins AF, Jiang JX, Kai-Jun Luo. Innexin hemichannel activation by Microplitis bicoloratus ecSOD monopolymer reduces ROS. iScience 2024; 27:109469. [PMID: 38577101 PMCID: PMC10993139 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2023] [Revised: 01/31/2024] [Accepted: 03/07/2024] [Indexed: 04/06/2024] Open
Abstract
The extracellular superoxide dismutases (ecSODs) secreted by Microplitis bicoloratus reduce the reactive oxygen species (ROS) stimulated by the Microplitis bicoloratus bracovirus. Here, we demonstrate that the bacterial transferase hexapeptide (hexapep) motif and bacterial-immunoglobulin-like (BIg-like) domain of ecSODs bind to the cell membrane and transiently open hemichannels, facilitating ROS reductions. RNAi-mediated ecSOD silencing in vivo elevated ROS in host hemocytes, impairing parasitoid larva development. In vitro, the ecSOD-monopolymer needed to be membrane bound to open hemichannels. Furthermore, the hexapep motif in the beta-sandwich of ecSOD49 and ecSOD58, and BIg-like domain in the signal peptides of ecSOD67 were required for cell membrane binding. Hexapep motif and BIg-like domain deletions induced ecSODs loss of adhesion and ROS reduction failure. The hexapep motif and BIg-like domain mediated ecSOD binding via upregulating innexins and stabilizing the opened hemichannels. Our findings reveal a mechanism through which ecSOD reduces ROS, which may aid in developing anti-redox therapy.
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- Jiang-Hui Meng
- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Virology & Immunology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of the University in Yunnan Province for International Cooperation in Intercellular Communications and Regulations, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Virology & Immunology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of the University in Yunnan Province for International Cooperation in Intercellular Communications and Regulations, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Virology & Immunology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of the University in Yunnan Province for International Cooperation in Intercellular Communications and Regulations, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
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- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) “Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies”, University of Tuebingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Virology & Immunology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of the University in Yunnan Province for International Cooperation in Intercellular Communications and Regulations, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Virology & Immunology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of the University in Yunnan Province for International Cooperation in Intercellular Communications and Regulations, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Virology & Immunology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of the University in Yunnan Province for International Cooperation in Intercellular Communications and Regulations, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Virology & Immunology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of the University in Yunnan Province for International Cooperation in Intercellular Communications and Regulations, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Virology & Immunology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of the University in Yunnan Province for International Cooperation in Intercellular Communications and Regulations, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Virology & Immunology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of the University in Yunnan Province for International Cooperation in Intercellular Communications and Regulations, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Virology & Immunology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of the University in Yunnan Province for International Cooperation in Intercellular Communications and Regulations, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Virology & Immunology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of the University in Yunnan Province for International Cooperation in Intercellular Communications and Regulations, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Virology & Immunology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of the University in Yunnan Province for International Cooperation in Intercellular Communications and Regulations, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Virology & Immunology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of the University in Yunnan Province for International Cooperation in Intercellular Communications and Regulations, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Virology & Immunology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of the University in Yunnan Province for International Cooperation in Intercellular Communications and Regulations, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Virology & Immunology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of the University in Yunnan Province for International Cooperation in Intercellular Communications and Regulations, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Virology & Immunology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of the University in Yunnan Province for International Cooperation in Intercellular Communications and Regulations, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
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- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) “Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies”, University of Tuebingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Virology & Immunology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of the University in Yunnan Province for International Cooperation in Intercellular Communications and Regulations, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, P.R. China
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Paranawithana NN, Chiaffarelli R, Kretschmer J, Buchanan E, Lopez K, Zhao P, Kiefer G, Jurek P, Martins AF, Sherry AD. Enhancing r1 Relaxivity in GdDOTA-Monoamide Complexes through Polar Group-Mediated Ordering of Second-Sphere Water Molecules. Inorg Chem 2024; 63:4072-4077. [PMID: 38385753 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c03639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
Abstract
This study was designed to test whether the single appended phosphonate group in GdDOTA-1AmP is sufficient for catalyzing the exchange of proton from the single inner-sphere water-exchanging molecule. Unlike the other phosphonate derivatives in this series, GdDOTA-1AmP showed a surprisingly smooth increase in r1 relaxivity from 3.0 to 6.3 mM-1 s-1 at 20 MHz as the pH was lowered from 9 to 2.5. In comparison to the bis-, tris-, and tetrakis-phosphonate analogues, which all show a biphasic dependence of r1 with changes in pH, the unique r1 versus pH characteristics of GdDOTA-1AmP are shown to closely parallel deprotonation of the single appended phosphonate group. Although the tissue biodistribution and clearance rates of GdDOTA-1AmP are more favorable than the other more highly charged phosphonate derivatives, the pH dependency of r1 is substantially reduced at magnetic fields typically used for small animal imaging (7 and 9.4T), so the attractiveness of this new molecule for quantitative imaging of tissue pH is diminished. However, this study provides some new insights into the feasibility of designing pH-responsive MRI contrast agents based upon fundamental acid-base prototropic mechanisms.
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- Namini N Paranawithana
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies″, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), partner site Tübingen, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies″, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), partner site Tübingen, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Macrocyclics, Inc., An Orano Med Company, 700 Klein Road, Plano, Texas 75074, United States
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- Macrocyclics, Inc., An Orano Med Company, 700 Klein Road, Plano, Texas 75074, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
- Macrocyclics, Inc., An Orano Med Company, 700 Klein Road, Plano, Texas 75074, United States
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- Macrocyclics, Inc., An Orano Med Company, 700 Klein Road, Plano, Texas 75074, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies″, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), partner site Tübingen, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
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Knopf P, Stowbur D, Hoffmann SHL, Hermann N, Maurer A, Bucher V, Poxleitner M, Tako B, Sonanini D, Krishnamachary B, Sinharay S, Fehrenbacher B, Gonzalez-Menendez I, Reckmann F, Bomze D, Flatz L, Kramer D, Schaller M, Forchhammer S, Bhujwalla ZM, Quintanilla-Martinez L, Schulze-Osthoff K, Pagel MD, Fransen MF, Röcken M, Martins AF, Pichler BJ, Ghoreschi K, Kneilling M. Acidosis-mediated increase in IFN-γ-induced PD-L1 expression on cancer cells as an immune escape mechanism in solid tumors. Mol Cancer 2023; 22:207. [PMID: 38102680 PMCID: PMC10722725 DOI: 10.1186/s12943-023-01900-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2023] [Accepted: 11/12/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023] Open
Abstract
Immune checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized cancer therapy, yet the efficacy of these treatments is often limited by the heterogeneous and hypoxic tumor microenvironment (TME) of solid tumors. In the TME, programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression on cancer cells is mainly regulated by Interferon-gamma (IFN-γ), which induces T cell exhaustion and enables tumor immune evasion. In this study, we demonstrate that acidosis, a common characteristic of solid tumors, significantly increases IFN-γ-induced PD-L1 expression on aggressive cancer cells, thus promoting immune escape. Using preclinical models, we found that acidosis enhances the genomic expression and phosphorylation of signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 (STAT1), and the translation of STAT1 mRNA by eukaryotic initiation factor 4F (elF4F), resulting in an increased PD-L1 expression. We observed this effect in murine and human anti-PD-L1-responsive tumor cell lines, but not in anti-PD-L1-nonresponsive tumor cell lines. In vivo studies fully validated our in vitro findings and revealed that neutralizing the acidic extracellular tumor pH by sodium bicarbonate treatment suppresses IFN-γ-induced PD-L1 expression and promotes immune cell infiltration in responsive tumors and thus reduces tumor growth. However, this effect was not observed in anti-PD-L1-nonresponsive tumors. In vivo experiments in tumor-bearing IFN-γ-/- mice validated the dependency on immune cell-derived IFN-γ for acidosis-mediated cancer cell PD-L1 induction and tumor immune escape. Thus, acidosis and IFN-γ-induced elevation of PD-L1 expression on cancer cells represent a previously unknown immune escape mechanism that may serve as a novel biomarker for anti-PD-L1/PD-1 treatment response. These findings have important implications for the development of new strategies to enhance the efficacy of immunotherapy in cancer patients.
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- Philipp Knopf
- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", Röntgenweg 13, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", Röntgenweg 13, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", Röntgenweg 13, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Imaging Research, The Russell H Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1881 East Rd, Houston, TX, 77054, USA
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- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", Röntgenweg 13, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
- Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, Department of Pathology, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Tübingen University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany
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- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Dermatology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Imaging Research, The Russell H Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", Röntgenweg 13, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
- Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, Department of Pathology, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Tübingen University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany
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- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", Röntgenweg 13, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
- Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), partner site Tübingen, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1881 East Rd, Houston, TX, 77054, USA
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- Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, Netherlands
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- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", Röntgenweg 13, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
- Department of Dermatology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), partner site Tübingen, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", Röntgenweg 13, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), partner site Tübingen, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", Röntgenweg 13, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), partner site Tübingen, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin Institute of Health, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany.
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", Röntgenweg 13, 72076, Tübingen, Germany.
- Department of Dermatology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany.
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Freidel L, Li S, Choffart A, Kuebler L, Martins AF. Imaging Techniques in Pharmacological Precision Medicine. Handb Exp Pharmacol 2023; 280:213-235. [PMID: 36907970 DOI: 10.1007/164_2023_641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/14/2023]
Abstract
Biomedical imaging is a powerful tool for medical diagnostics and personalized medicines. Examples of commonly used imaging modalities include Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Ultrasound (US), Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), and hybrid imaging. By combining these modalities, scientists can gain a comprehensive view and better understand physiology and pathology at the preclinical, clinical, and multiscale levels. This can aid in the accuracy of medical diagnoses and treatment decisions. Moreover, biomedical imaging allows for evaluating the metabolic, functional, and structural details of living tissues. This can be particularly useful for the early diagnosis of diseases such as cancer and for the application of personalized medicines. In the case of hybrid imaging, two or more modalities are combined to produce a high-resolution image with enhanced sensitivity and specificity. This can significantly improve the accuracy of diagnosis and offer more detailed treatment plans. In this book chapter, we showcase how continued advancements in biomedical imaging technology can potentially revolutionize medical diagnostics and personalized medicine.
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- Lucas Freidel
- Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Werner Siemens Imaging Center, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies," University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Werner Siemens Imaging Center, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies," University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Werner Siemens Imaging Center, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies," University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Werner Siemens Imaging Center, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies," University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Tübingen, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Werner Siemens Imaging Center, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies," University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Tübingen, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
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Dao E, Clavijo Jordan MV, Geraki K, Martins AF, Chirayil S, Sherry AD, Farquharson MJ. Using micro-synchrotron radiation x-ray fluorescence (µ-SRXRF) for trace metal imaging in the development of MRI contrast agents for prostate cancer imaging. J Trace Elem Med Biol 2022; 74:127054. [PMID: 35939923 PMCID: PMC9940726 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtemb.2022.127054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2021] [Revised: 05/13/2022] [Accepted: 08/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Contrast agents (CA) are administered in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) clinical exams to measure tissue perfusion, enhance image contrast between adjacent tissues, or provide additional biochemical information in molecular MRI. The efficacy of a CA is determined by the tissue distribution of the agent and its concentration in the extracellular space of all tissues. METHODS In this work, micro-synchrotron radiation x-ray fluorescence (µ-SRXRF) was used to examine and characterize a gadolinium-based zinc-sensitive agent (GdL2) currently under development for detection of prostate cancer (PCa) by MRI. Prostate tissue samples were collected from control mice and mice with known PCa after an MRI exam that included injection of GdL2. The samples were raster scanned to investigate trends in Zn, Gd, Cu, Fe, S, P, and Ca. RESULTS Significant Zn and Gd co-localization was observed in both healthy and malignant tissues. In addition, a marked decrease in Zn was found in the lateral lobe of the prostate obtained from mice with PCa. CONCLUSION We demonstrate here that µ-SRXRF is a useful tool for monitoring the distribution of several elements including Zn and Gd in animal models of cancer. The optimized procedures for tissue preparation, processing, data collection, and analysis are described.
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- E Dao
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada; Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", University of Tuebingen, 72076, Germany.
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, United States; Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, United States; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, United States; Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", University of Tuebingen, 72076, Germany
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- Diamond Light Source, Harwell, Didcot OX11 0DE, United Kingdom; Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", University of Tuebingen, 72076, Germany
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, United States; Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Tuebingen 72076, Germany; Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", University of Tuebingen, 72076, Germany
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, United States; Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", University of Tuebingen, 72076, Germany
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, United States; Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, United States; Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", University of Tuebingen, 72076, Germany; Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, United States
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- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", University of Tuebingen, 72076, Germany; School of Interdisciplinary Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
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Ozbakir HF, Miller ADC, Fishman KB, Martins AF, Kippin TE, Mukherjee A. A Protein-Based Biosensor for Detecting Calcium by Magnetic Resonance Imaging. ACS Sens 2021; 6:3163-3169. [PMID: 34420291 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.1c01085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Calcium-responsive contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offer a promising approach for noninvasive brain-wide monitoring of neural activity at any arbitrary depth. Current examples of MRI-based calcium probes involve synthetic molecules and nanoparticles, which cannot be used to examine calcium signaling in a genetically encoded form. Here, we describe a new MRI sensor for calcium, based entirely on a naturally occurring calcium-binding protein known as calprotectin. Calcium-binding causes calprotectin to sequester manganese ions, thereby limiting Mn2+ enhanced paramagnetic relaxation of nearby water molecules. We demonstrate that this mechanism allows calprotectin to alter T1 and T2 based MRI signals in response to biologically relevant calcium concentrations. The resulting response amplitude, i.e., change in relaxation time, is comparable to existing MRI-based calcium sensors as well as other reported protein-based MRI sensors. As a preliminary demonstration of its biological applicability, we used calprotectin to detect calcium in a lysed hippocampal cell preparation as well as in intact Chinese hamster ovary cells treated with a calcium ionophore. Calprotectin thus represents a promising path toward noninvasive imaging of calcium signaling by combining the molecular and cellular specificity of genetically encodable tools with the ability of MRI to image through scattering tissue of any size and depth.
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Chirayil S, Jordan VC, Martins AF, Paranawithana N, Ratnakar SJ, Sherry AD. Manganese(II)-Based Responsive Contrast Agent Detects Glucose-Stimulated Zinc Secretion from the Mouse Pancreas and Prostate by MRI. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:2168-2177. [PMID: 33507742 PMCID: PMC8112388 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A Mn(II)-based zinc-sensitive MRI contrast agent, MnPyC3A-BPEN, was prepared, characterized, and applied in imaging experiments to detect glucose-stimulated zinc secretion (GSZS) from the mouse pancreas and prostate in vivo. Thermodynamic and kinetic stability tests showed that MnPyC3A-BPEN has superior kinetic inertness compared to GdDTPA, is less susceptible to transmetalation in the presence of excess Zn2+ ions, and less susceptible to transchelation by albumin. In comparison with other gadolinium-based zinc sensors bearing a single zinc binding moiety, MnPyC3A-BPEN appears to be a reliable alternative for imaging β-cell function in the pancreas and glucose-stimulated zinc secretion from the prostate.
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- Sara Chirayil
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, United States
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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Martins AF, Clavijo Jordan V, Bochner F, Chirayil S, Paranawithana N, Zhang S, Lo ST, Wen X, Zhao P, Neeman M, Sherry AD. Imaging Insulin Secretion from Mouse Pancreas by MRI Is Improved by Use of a Zinc-Responsive MRI Sensor with Lower Affinity for Zn 2+ Ions. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:17456-17464. [PMID: 30484648 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b07607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
Abstract
It has been demonstrated that divalent zinc ions packaged with insulin in β-cell granules can be detected by MRI during glucose-stimulated insulin secretion using a gadolinium-based Zn2+-sensitive agent. This study was designed to evaluate whether a simpler agent design having single Zn2+-sensing moieties but with variable Zn2+ binding affinities might also detect insulin secretion from the pancreas. Using an implanted MR-compatible window designed to hold the pancreas in a fixed position for imaging, we now demonstrate that focally intense "hot spots" can be detected in the tail of the pancreas using these agents after administration of glucose to stimulate insulin secretion. Histological staining of the same tissue verified that the hot spots identified by imaging correspond to clusters of islets, perhaps reflecting first-responder islets that are most responsive to a sudden increase in glucose. A comparison of images obtained when using a high-affinity Zn2+ sensor versus a lower-affinity sensor showed that the lower-affinity sensors produced the best image contrast. An equilibrium model that considers all possible complexes formed between Zn2+, the GdL sensor, and HSA predicts that a GdL sensor with lower affinity for Zn2+ generates a lower background signal from endogenous Zn2+ prior to glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) and that the weaker binding affinity agent is more responsive to a further increase in Zn2+ concentration near β-cells after GSIS. These model predictions are consistent with the in vivo imaging observations.
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- André F Martins
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Texas at Dallas , Richardson , Texas 75080 , United States.,Advanced Imaging Research Center , University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas , Texas 75390-8568 , United States
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center , University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas , Texas 75390-8568 , United States
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- Department of Biological Regulation , The Weizmann Institute of Science , 7610001 Rehovot , Israel
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center , University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas , Texas 75390-8568 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Texas at Dallas , Richardson , Texas 75080 , United States
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center , University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas , Texas 75390-8568 , United States
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center , University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas , Texas 75390-8568 , United States
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center , University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas , Texas 75390-8568 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Texas at Dallas , Richardson , Texas 75080 , United States
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- Department of Biological Regulation , The Weizmann Institute of Science , 7610001 Rehovot , Israel
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Texas at Dallas , Richardson , Texas 75080 , United States.,Advanced Imaging Research Center , University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas , Texas 75390-8568 , United States
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Dharmarwardana M, Martins AF, Chen Z, Palacios PM, Nowak CM, Welch RP, Li S, Luzuriaga MA, Bleris L, Pierce BS, Sherry AD, Gassensmith JJ. Nitroxyl Modified Tobacco Mosaic Virus as a Metal-Free High-Relaxivity MRI and EPR Active Superoxide Sensor. Mol Pharm 2018; 15:2973-2983. [PMID: 29771534 PMCID: PMC6078806 DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.8b00262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
Abstract
Superoxide overproduction is known to occur in multiple disease states requiring critical care; yet, noninvasive detection of superoxide in deep tissue remains a challenge. Herein, we report a metal-free magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) active contrast agent prepared by "click conjugating" paramagnetic organic radical contrast agents (ORCAs) to the surface of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV). While ORCAs are known to be reduced in vivo to an MRI/EPR silent state, their oxidation is facilitated specifically by reactive oxygen species-in particular, superoxide-and are largely unaffected by peroxides and molecular oxygen. Unfortunately, single molecule ORCAs typically offer weak MRI contrast. In contrast, our data confirm that the macromolecular ORCA-TMV conjugates show marked enhancement for T1 contrast at low field (<3.0 T) and T2 contrast at high field (9.4 T). Additionally, we demonstrated that the unique topology of TMV allows for a "quenchless fluorescent" bimodal probe for concurrent fluorescence and MRI/EPR imaging, which was made possible by exploiting the unique inner and outer surface of the TMV nanoparticle. Finally, we show TMV-ORCAs do not respond to normal cellular respiration, minimizing the likelihood for background, yet still respond to enzymatically produced superoxide in complicated biological fluids like serum.
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- Madushani Dharmarwardana
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080-3021, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080-3021, USA
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080-3021, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Sciences, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080-3021, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080-3021, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080-3021, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080-3021, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080-3021, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Sciences, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080-3021, USA
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080-3021, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080-3021, USA
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Smazna D, Rodrigues J, Shree S, Postica V, Neubüser G, Martins AF, Ben Sedrine N, Jena NK, Siebert L, Schütt F, Lupan O, Ahuja R, Correia MR, Monteiro T, Kienle L, Yang Y, Adelung R, Mishra YK. Buckminsterfullerene hybridized zinc oxide tetrapods: defects and charge transfer induced optical and electrical response. Nanoscale 2018; 10:10050-10062. [PMID: 29781017 DOI: 10.1039/c8nr01504j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
Abstract
Buckminster fullerene (C60) based hybrid metal oxide materials are receiving considerable attention because of their excellent fundamental and applied aspects, like semiconducting, electron transfer, luminescent behaviors, etc. and this work briefly discusses the successful fabrication of C60 decorated ZnO tetrapod materials and their detailed structure-property relationships including device sensing applications. The electron microscopy investigations indicate that a quite dense surface coverage of ZnO tetrapods with C60 clusters is achieved. The spectroscopy studies confirmed the identification of the C60 vibrational modes and the C60 induced changes in the absorption and luminescence properties of the ZnO tetrapods. An increased C60 concentration on ZnO results in steeper ZnO bandgap absorption followed by well-defined free exciton and 3.31 eV line emissions. As expected, higher amounts of C60 increase the intensity of C60-related visible absorption bands. Pumping the samples with photons with an energy corresponding to these absorption band maxima leads to additional emission from ZnO showing an effective charge transfer phenomenon from C60 to the ZnO host. The density of states model obtained from DFT studies for pure and C60 coated ZnO surfaces confirms the experimental observations. The fabricated C60-ZnO hybrid tetrapod based micro- and nanodevices showed interesting ethanol gas sensing characteristics.
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- Daria Smazna
- Institute for Materials Science, Kiel University, Kaiserstr. 2, D-24143, Kiel, Germany.
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Zhang L, Martins AF, Zhao P, Wu Y, Tircsó G, Sherry AD. Lanthanide-Based T 2ex and CEST Complexes Provide Insights into the Design of pH Sensitive MRI Agents. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017; 56:16626-16630. [PMID: 29024242 PMCID: PMC5879776 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201707959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
The CEST and T1 /T2 relaxation properties of a series of Eu3+ and Dy3+ DOTA-tetraamide complexes with four appended primary amine groups are measured as a function of pH. The CEST signals in the Eu3+ complexes show a strong CEST signal after the pH was reduced from 8 to 5. The opposite trend was observed for the Dy3+ complexes where the r2ex of bulk water protons increased dramatically from ca. 1.5 mm-1 s-1 to 13 mm-1 s-1 between pH 5 and 9 while r1 remained unchanged. A fit of the CEST data (Eu3+ complexes) to Bloch theory and the T2ex data (Dy3+ complexes) to Swift-Connick theory provided the proton-exchange rates as a function of pH. These data showed that the four amine groups contribute significantly to proton-catalyzed exchange of the Ln3+ -bound water protons even though their pKa 's are much higher than the observed CEST or T2ex effects. This demonstrated the utility of using appended acidic/basic groups to catalyze prototropic exchange for imaging tissue pH by MRI.
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- Lei Zhang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX, 75080, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX, 75080, USA
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX, 75390, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX, 75080, USA
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX, 75390, USA
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Debrecen, Egyetemtér 1, 4010, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX, 75080, USA
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX, 75390, USA
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Niedbalski P, Parish C, Wang Q, Hayati Z, Song L, Martins AF, Sherry AD, Lumata L. Transition Metal Doping Reveals Link between Electron T 1 Reduction and 13C Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Efficiency. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:9221-9228. [PMID: 29125294 PMCID: PMC5793213 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b09448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
Abstract
Optimal efficiency of dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) is essential to provide the required high sensitivity enhancements for in vitro and in vivo hyperpolarized 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and imaging (MRI). At the nexus of the DNP process are the free electrons, which provide the high spin alignment that is transferred to the nuclear spins. Without changing DNP instrumental conditions, one way to improve 13C DNP efficiency is by adding trace amounts of paramagnetic additives such as lanthanide (e.g., Gd3+, Ho3+, Dy3+, Tb3+) complexes to the DNP sample, which has been observed to increase solid-state 13C DNP signals by 100-250%. Herein, we have investigated the effects of paramagnetic transition metal complex R-NOTA (R = Mn2+, Cu2+, Co2+) doping on the efficiency of 13C DNP using trityl OX063 as the polarizing agent. Our DNP results at 3.35 T and 1.2 K show that doping the 13C sample with 3 mM Mn2+-NOTA led to a substantial improvement of the solid-state 13C DNP signal by a factor of nearly 3. However, the other transition metal complexes Cu2+-NOTA and Co2+-NOTA complexes, despite their paramagnetic nature, had essentially no impact on solid-state 13C DNP enhancement. W-band electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) measurements reveal that the trityl OX063 electron T1 was significantly reduced in Mn2+-doped samples but not in Cu2+- and Co2+-doped DNP samples. This work demonstrates, for the first time, that not all paramagnetic additives are beneficial to DNP. In particular, our work provides a direct evidence that electron T1 reduction of the polarizing agent by a paramagnetic additive is an essential requirement for the improvement seen in solid-state 13C DNP signal.
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- Peter Niedbalski
- Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA
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- Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA
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- Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA
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- Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA
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Zhang L, Martins AF, Zhao P, Tieu M, Esteban-Gomez D, McCandless GT, Platas-Iglesias C, Sherry AD. Enantiomeric Recognition of d- and l-Lactate by CEST with the Aid of a Paramagnetic Shift Reagent. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:17431-17437. [PMID: 29083166 PMCID: PMC5796655 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b08292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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A previous report demonstrated that EuDO3A could be used as an NMR shift reagent for imaging extracellular lactate produced by cancer cells using CEST imaging. In this work, a series of heptadentate macrocyclic YbDO3A-trisamide complexes with δ-chiral carbons in the three pendant side-arms were examined as shift reagents for lactate detection. High resolution 1H NMR spectra and DFT calculations provided evidence for the formation of stereoselective lactate·YbDO3A-trisamide complexes each with a different CEST signature. This stereoselectivity allowed discrimination of d- versus l-lactate by both high-resolution NMR and CEST. This work demonstrates that lanthanide-based paramagnetic shift reagents can be designed to detect important metabolites by CEST MRI selectively.
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- Lei Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Departamento de Química, Facultade de Ciencias & Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Universidade da Coruña, 15071 A Coruña, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Departamento de Química, Facultade de Ciencias & Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Universidade da Coruña, 15071 A Coruña, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
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Zhang L, Martins AF, Zhao P, Wu Y, Tircsó G, Sherry AD. Lanthanide-Based T2ex
and CEST Complexes Provide Insights into the Design of pH Sensitive MRI Agents. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201707959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Lei Zhang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; The University of Texas at Dallas; 800 West Campbell Road Richardson TX 75080 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; The University of Texas at Dallas; 800 West Campbell Road Richardson TX 75080 USA
- Advanced Imaging Research Center; UT Southwestern Medical Center; 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Dallas TX 75390 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; The University of Texas at Dallas; 800 West Campbell Road Richardson TX 75080 USA
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center; UT Southwestern Medical Center; 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Dallas TX 75390 USA
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry; University of Debrecen; Egyetemtér 1 4010 Debrecen Hungary
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; The University of Texas at Dallas; 800 West Campbell Road Richardson TX 75080 USA
- Advanced Imaging Research Center; UT Southwestern Medical Center; 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Dallas TX 75390 USA
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Cressier D, Dhilly M, Cao Pham TT, Fillesoye F, Gourand F, Maïza A, Martins AF, Morfin JF, Geraldes CFGC, Tóth É, Barré L. Gallium-68 Complexes Conjugated to Pittsburgh Compound B: Radiolabeling and Biological Evaluation. Mol Imaging Biol 2017; 18:334-43. [PMID: 26543029 DOI: 10.1007/s11307-015-0906-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
PURPOSE The aim of this work is to develop an efficient and fully automated radiosynthesis of three derivatives of the Pittsburgh compound B labeled with gallium-68 for the detection of amyloid plaques. PROCEDURES The radiolabeling of the precursors and purification of the radiolabeled agents by high pressure liquid chromatography has been studied prior to their in vitro and in vivo evaluations. RESULTS The complete process led, in 50 min, to pure Ga-68 products in a 12-38 % yield and with appreciable specific radioactivity (SRA, 85-168 GBq/μmol) which enabled us to demonstrate a considerable in vivo stability of the products. Unfortunately, this result was associated with a poor blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability and a limited uptake of our compounds by amyloid deposits was observed by in vitro autoradiography. CONCLUSION Although we have not yet identified a compound able to significantly mark cerebral amyloidosis, this present investigation will likely contribute to the development of more successful Ga-68 radiotracers.
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- Damien Cressier
- CEA, I2BM, LDM-TEP, UMR 6301 ISTCT, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France. .,CNRS, UMR 6301 ISTCT, LDM-TEP, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France. .,Université de Caen Normandie, UMR 6301 ISTCT, LDM-TEP, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France.
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- CEA, I2BM, LDM-TEP, UMR 6301 ISTCT, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France.,CNRS, UMR 6301 ISTCT, LDM-TEP, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France.,Université de Caen Normandie, UMR 6301 ISTCT, LDM-TEP, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France
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- CEA, I2BM, LDM-TEP, UMR 6301 ISTCT, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France.,CNRS, UMR 6301 ISTCT, LDM-TEP, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France.,Université de Caen Normandie, UMR 6301 ISTCT, LDM-TEP, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France
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- CEA, I2BM, LDM-TEP, UMR 6301 ISTCT, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France.,CNRS, UMR 6301 ISTCT, LDM-TEP, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France.,Université de Caen Normandie, UMR 6301 ISTCT, LDM-TEP, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France
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- CEA, I2BM, LDM-TEP, UMR 6301 ISTCT, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France.,CNRS, UMR 6301 ISTCT, LDM-TEP, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France.,Université de Caen Normandie, UMR 6301 ISTCT, LDM-TEP, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France
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- CEA, I2BM, LDM-TEP, UMR 6301 ISTCT, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France.,CNRS, UMR 6301 ISTCT, LDM-TEP, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France.,Université de Caen Normandie, UMR 6301 ISTCT, LDM-TEP, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire UPR 4301, CNRS, Université d'Orléans, 45071, Orléans, France.,Department of Life Sciences and Coimbra Chemistry Center, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire UPR 4301, CNRS, Université d'Orléans, 45071, Orléans, France
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- Department of Life Sciences and Coimbra Chemistry Center, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire UPR 4301, CNRS, Université d'Orléans, 45071, Orléans, France
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- CEA, I2BM, LDM-TEP, UMR 6301 ISTCT, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France.,CNRS, UMR 6301 ISTCT, LDM-TEP, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France.,Université de Caen Normandie, UMR 6301 ISTCT, LDM-TEP, GIP Cyceron, 14074, Caen, France
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Abstract
Zinc has long been the focus of many biological investigations because of its essential role in biology including a catalytic role in many enzymes, a structural role in the many zinc finger proteins, and a physiological role in many secretory cell processes. Divalent zinc is known to be highly abundant in healthy prostate tissues and lower in prostate cancer (PCa). Given the need for newer diagnostic methods for detection of prostate cancer, zinc-responsive probes of various types have been considered as imaging tools for detecting tissue levels of zinc. Among them, recent zinc-responsive MRI probes show great promise for non-invasive detection of zinc ion secretion from the prostate and other tissues in vivo. In this review, we summarize the need for new diagnostic tools and demonstrate how responsive zinc probes and MRI could satisfy this unmet need.
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- Su-Tang Lo
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75390-8568
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75390-8568
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75390-8568
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75390-8568
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083
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Martins AF, Carreira JFC, Rodrigues J, Sedrine NB, Castro IFC, Correia PMM, Veloso JFCA, Rino L, Monteiro T. Spectroscopic analysis of LYSO:Ce crystals. Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc 2017; 172:163-167. [PMID: 27133357 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2016.04.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2015] [Revised: 02/10/2016] [Accepted: 04/08/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
Abstract
Rare earth orthosilicates are among the most widely used scintillator materials in the last decades. Particularly, lutetium-yttrium oxyorthosilicate (LYSO) is known to exhibit great potentialities in the field of radiation detectors for medical imaging. Consequently, an in-depth knowledge of the material properties is of utmost interest for the mentioned applications. In this work the spectroscopic properties of commercial cerium doped lutetium-yttrium oxyorthosilicate crystals (LYSO:Ce) were investigated by Raman spectroscopy, steady state photoluminescence, photoluminescence excitation and time resolved photoluminescence. Site selective excitation was used under steady state (325nm) and pulsed (266nm) conditions to separately investigate the temperature dependence of the 5d→4f Ce1 and Ce2 luminescence, allowing to establish the thermal quenching dependence of the Ce2 optical center. In the case of the Ce1 optical center, a luminescence quantum efficiency of 78% was obtained from 14K to room temperature with 266nm photon excitation.
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- A F Martins
- Department of Physics & I3N, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Physics & I3N, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Physics & I3N, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.
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- Department of Physics & I3N, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Physics & I3N, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Physics & I3N, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Physics & I3N, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Physics & I3N, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Physics & I3N, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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Zhang L, Martins AF, Mai Y, Zhao P, Funk AM, Clavijo Jordan MV, Zhang S, Chen W, Wu Y, Sherry AD. Imaging Extracellular Lactate In Vitro and In Vivo Using CEST MRI and a Paramagnetic Shift Reagent. Chemistry 2017; 23:1752-1756. [PMID: 27987233 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201604558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2016] [Revised: 12/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
Overproduction of lactate is a hallmark of cancer, yet a method to quantitatively measure lactate production by cancer cells is not straight-forward. Chemical exchange saturation transfer magnetic resonance imaging (CEST MRI) can potentially be used to image lactate but the small difference in chemical shift of the lactate -OH proton and water proton resonances make it challenging. Like other spectroscopic methods, CEST MRI cannot discriminate intracellular lactate from extracellular lactate. Herein, we demonstrate a relatively simple way to shift the lactate -OH proton resonance far away from water by addition of the paramagnetic shift reagent, EuDO3A, while retaining the CEST properties of lactate itself. The potential of the method was demonstrated by imaging extracellular lactate excreted from lung cancer cells in tissue culture without interference from other components in the culture media and by imaging excess lactate excreted into the bladder of a mouse.
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- Lei Zhang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX, 75080, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX, 75080, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX, 75080, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX, 75080, USA
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX, 75080, USA.,Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA
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Kumas C, Fernando WS, Zhao P, Regueiro-Figueroa M, Kiefer GE, Martins AF, Platas-Iglesias C, Sherry AD. Unexpected Changes in the Population of Coordination Isomers for the Lanthanide Ion Complexes of DOTMA-Tetraglycinate. Inorg Chem 2016; 55:9297-305. [PMID: 27603690 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Lanthanide complexes with DOTA-tetraglycinate (DOTA-(gly)4) heavily favor the square antiprismatic (SAP) coordination isomer in aqueous solution, a structural feature that has made them useful as water-based paraCEST agents. In an effort to create amide-based paraCEST agents with rapid water exchange rates, we prepared the analogous tetraglycinate complexes with DOTMA, a ligand known to favor the twisted square antiprismatic (TSAP) coordination structures. Unexpectedly, NMR investigations show that the LnDOTMA-(gly)4 complexes, like the LnDOTA-(gly)4 complexes, also favor the SAP isomers in solution. This observation led to density functional theory (DFT) calculations in order to identify the energy terms that favor the SAP structures in lanthanide complexes formed with macrocyclic DOTA- and DOTMA-tetraamide ligands. The DFT calculations revealed that, regardless the nature of the ligand, the TSAP isomers present more negative hydration energies than the SAP counterparts. The extent to which the TSAP isomer is stabilized varies, however, depending on the ligand structure, resulting in different isomeric populations in solution.
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- Cemile Kumas
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas , Dallas, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas , Dallas, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas , Dallas, Texas 75080, United States
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- Centro de Investigaciones Científicas Avanzadas (CICA) and Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade da Coruña , Campus da Zapateira, Rúa da Fraga 10, 15008 A Coruña, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas , Dallas, Texas 75080, United States.,Macrocyclics, Inc. , Dallas, Texas 75235, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas , Dallas, Texas 75080, United States
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- Centro de Investigaciones Científicas Avanzadas (CICA) and Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade da Coruña , Campus da Zapateira, Rúa da Fraga 10, 15008 A Coruña, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas , Dallas, Texas 75080, United States.,Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
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Fernando WS, Martins AF, Zhao P, Wu Y, Kiefer GE, Platas-Iglesias C, Sherry AD. Breaking the Barrier to Slow Water Exchange Rates for Optimal Magnetic Resonance Detection of paraCEST Agents. Inorg Chem 2016; 55:3007-14. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b02850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- W. Shirangi Fernando
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800
West Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800
West Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800
West Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800
West Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
- Macrocyclics, Incorporated, Dallas, Texas 75235, United States
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- Grupo QUICOOR,
Centro de Investigaciones Científicas Avanzadas (CICA) and
Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade da Coruña, Campus da Zapateira, Rúa da Fraga 10, 15008 A Coruña, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 800
West Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
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Yu J, Martins AF, Preihs C, Clavijo Jordan V, Chirayil S, Zhao P, Wu Y, Nasr K, Kiefer GE, Sherry AD. Amplifying the sensitivity of zinc(II) responsive MRI contrast agents by altering water exchange rates. J Am Chem Soc 2015; 137:14173-9. [PMID: 26462412 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b09158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Abstract
Given the known water exchange rate limitations of a previously reported Zn(II)-sensitive MRI contrast agent, GdDOTA-diBPEN, new structural targets were rationally designed to increase the rate of water exchange to improve MRI detection sensitivity. These new sensors exhibit fine-tuned water exchange properties and, depending on the individual structure, demonstrate significantly improved longitudinal relaxivities (r1). Two sensors in particular demonstrate optimized parameters and, therefore, show exceptionally high longitudinal relaxivities of about 50 mM(-1) s(-1) upon binding to Zn(II) and human serum albumin (HSA). This value demonstrates a 3-fold increase in r1 compared to that displayed by the original sensor, GdDOTA-diBPEN. In addition, this study provides important insights into the interplay between structural modifications, water exchange rate, and kinetic stability properties of the sensors. The new high relaxivity agents were used to successfully image Zn(II) release from the mouse pancreas in vivo during glucose stimulated insulin secretion.
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- Jing Yu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas , P.O. Box 830668, Richardson, Texas 75083, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas , P.O. Box 830668, Richardson, Texas 75083, United States
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, The University of Texas , Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, The University of Texas , Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, The University of Texas , Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas , P.O. Box 830668, Richardson, Texas 75083, United States
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, The University of Texas , Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, The University of Texas , Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas , P.O. Box 830668, Richardson, Texas 75083, United States.,Macrocyclics, Inc. , 1309 Record Crossing, Dallas, Texas 75235, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas , P.O. Box 830668, Richardson, Texas 75083, United States.,Advanced Imaging Research Center, The University of Texas , Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
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De León-Rodríguez LM, Martins AF, Pinho MC, Rofsky NM, Sherry AD. Basic MR relaxation mechanisms and contrast agent design. J Magn Reson Imaging 2015; 42:545-65. [PMID: 25975847 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2014] [Accepted: 10/11/2014] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
The diagnostic capabilities of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have undergone continuous and substantial evolution by virtue of hardware and software innovations and the development and implementation of exogenous contrast media. Thirty years since the first MRI contrast agent was approved for clinical use, a reliance on MR contrast media persists, largely to improve image quality with higher contrast resolution and to provide additional functional characterization of normal and abnormal tissues. Further development of MR contrast media is an important component in the quest for continued augmentation of diagnostic capabilities. In this review we detail the many important considerations when pursuing the design and use of MR contrast media. We offer a perspective on the importance of chemical stability, particularly kinetic stability, and how this influences one's thinking about the safety of metal-ligand-based contrast agents. We discuss the mechanisms involved in MR relaxation in the context of probe design strategies. A brief description of currently available contrast agents is accompanied by an in-depth discussion that highlights promising MRI contrast agents in the development of future clinical and research applications. Our intention is to give a diverse audience an improved understanding of the factors involved in developing new types of safe and highly efficient MR contrast agents and, at the same time, provide an appreciation of the insights into physiology and disease that newer types of responsive agents can provide.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA
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- Department of Radiology and the Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Department of Radiology and the Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA.,Department of Radiology and the Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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Martins AF, Dias DM, Morfin JF, Lacerda S, Laurents DV, Tóth É, Geraldes CFGC. Interaction of PiB-Derivative Metal Complexes with Beta-Amyloid Peptides: Selective Recognition of the Aggregated Forms. Chemistry 2015; 21:5413-22. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201406152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2014] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Martins AF, Eliseeva SV, Carvalho HF, Teixeira JMC, Paula CTB, Hermann P, Platas-Iglesias C, Petoud S, Tóth E, Geraldes CFGC. A bis(pyridine N-oxide) analogue of DOTA: relaxometric properties of the Gd(III) complex and efficient sensitization of visible and NIR-emitting lanthanide(III) cations including Pr(III) and Ho(III). Chemistry 2014; 20:14834-45. [PMID: 25236257 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201403856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2014] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Abstract
We report the synthesis of a cyclen-based ligand (4,10-bis[(1-oxidopyridin-2-yl)methyl]-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-1,7-diacetic acid=L1) containing two acetate and two 2-methylpyridine N-oxide arms anchored on the nitrogen atoms of the cyclen platform, which has been designed for stable complexation of lanthanide(III) ions in aqueous solution. Relaxometric studies suggest that the thermodynamic stability and kinetic inertness of the Gd(III) complex may be sufficient for biological applications. A detailed structural study of the complexes by (1) H NMR spectroscopy and DFT calculations indicates that they adopt an anti-Δ(λλλλ) conformation in aqueous solution, that is, an anti-square antiprismatic (anti-SAP) isomeric form, as demonstrated by analysis of the (1) H NMR paramagnetic shifts induced by Yb(III) . The water-exchange rate of the Gd(III) complex is ${k{{298\hfill \atop {\rm ex}\hfill}}}$=6.7×10(6) s(-1) , about a quarter of that for the mono-oxidopyridine analogue, but still about 50 % higher than the ${k{{298\hfill \atop {\rm ex}\hfill}}}$ of GdDOTA (DOTA=1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-1,4,7,10-tetraacetic acid). The 2-methylpyridine N-oxide chromophores can be used to sensitize a wide range of Ln(III) ions emitting in both the visible (Eu(III) and Tb(III) ) and NIR (Pr(III) , Nd(III) , Ho(III) , Yb(III) ) spectral regions. The emission quantum yield determined for the Yb(III) complex (${Q{{{\rm L}\hfill \atop {\rm Yb}\hfill}}}$=7.3(1)×10(-3) ) is among the highest ever reported for complexes of this metal ion in aqueous solution. The sensitization ability of the ligand, together with the spectroscopic and relaxometric properties of its complexes, constitute a useful step forward on the way to efficient dual probes for optical imaging (OI) and MRI.
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- André F Martins
- Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra, P. O. Box 3046, 3001-401 Coimbra (Portugal); Coimbra Chemistry Center, Rua Larga, University of Coimbra, 3004-535 Coimbra (Portugal); Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, Rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans (France)
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Martins AF, Morfin JF, Geraldes CFGC, Tóth É. Gd3+ complexes conjugated to Pittsburgh compound B: potential MRI markers of β-amyloid plaques. J Biol Inorg Chem 2013; 19:281-95. [DOI: 10.1007/s00775-013-1055-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2013] [Accepted: 10/09/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Martins AF, Morfin JF, Kubíčková A, Kubíček V, Buron F, Suzenet F, Salerno M, Lazar AN, Duyckaerts C, Arlicot N, Guilloteau D, Geraldes CFGC, Tóth É. PiB-Conjugated, Metal-Based Imaging Probes: Multimodal Approaches for the Visualization of β-Amyloid Plaques. ACS Med Chem Lett 2013; 4:436-40. [PMID: 24900692 DOI: 10.1021/ml400042w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2013] [Accepted: 04/14/2013] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
Abstract
In an effort toward the visualization of β-amyloid plaques by in vivo imaging techniques, we have conjugated an optimized derivative of the Pittsburgh compound B (PiB), a well-established marker of Aβ plaques, to DO3A-monoamide that is capable of forming stable, noncharged complexes with different trivalent metal ions including Gd(3+) for MRI and (111)In(3+) for SPECT applications. Proton relaxivity measurements evidenced binding of Gd(DO3A-PiB) to the amyloid peptide Aβ1-40 and to human serum albumin, resulting in a two- and four-fold relaxivity increase, respectively. Ex vivo immunohistochemical studies showed that the DO3A-PiB complexes selectively target Aβ plaques on Alzheimer's disease human brain tissue. Ex vivo biodistribution data obtained for the (111)In-analogue pointed to a moderate blood-brain barrier (BBB) penetration in adult male Swiss mice (without amyloid deposits) with 0.36% ID/g in the cortex at 2 min postinjection.
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- André F. Martins
- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, Rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans Cedex
2, France
- Department of
Life Sciences,
Center of Neurosciences and Cell Biology (CNC), and Coimbra Chemistry
Center, University of Coimbra, Portugal
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, Rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans Cedex
2, France
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, Rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans Cedex
2, France
- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Charles University in Prague, Albertov 2030, 12840
Prague, Czech Republic
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, Rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans Cedex
2, France
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- Institut de Chimie Organique
et Analytique, UMR 7311 CNRS/Université d’Orléans, rue de Chartres, 45067 Orléans, France
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- Institut de Chimie Organique
et Analytique, UMR 7311 CNRS/Université d’Orléans, rue de Chartres, 45067 Orléans, France
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- Laboratoire CSPBAT, CNRS UMR
7244, UFR-SMBH, Université Paris 13, 74 rue Marcel Cachin, 93017 Bobigny, France
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- Centre de Recherche de l’Institut
du Cerveau et de la Moelle, CNRS UMR7225, INSERM, UMR975 and UPMC, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière 47, Bd de l’Hôpital 75013 Paris, France
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- Centre de Recherche de l’Institut
du Cerveau et de la Moelle, CNRS UMR7225, INSERM, UMR975 and UPMC, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière 47, Bd de l’Hôpital 75013 Paris, France
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- Inserm, U930, Université François Rabelais de Tours, CHRU de Tours, 37044
Tours Cedex 9, France
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- Inserm, U930, Université François Rabelais de Tours, CHRU de Tours, 37044
Tours Cedex 9, France
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- Department of
Life Sciences,
Center of Neurosciences and Cell Biology (CNC), and Coimbra Chemistry
Center, University of Coimbra, Portugal
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, Rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans Cedex
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Martins AF, Prata MIM, Rodrigues SPJ, Geraldes CFGC, Riss PJ, Amor-Coarasa A, Burchardt C, Kroll C, Roesch F. Spectroscopic, radiochemical, and theoretical studies of the Ga3+-N-2-hydroxyethyl piperazine-N′-2-ethanesulfonic acid (HEPES buffer) system: evidence for the formation of Ga3+- HEPES complexes in68 Ga labeling reactions. Contrast Media Mol Imaging 2013; 8:265-73. [DOI: 10.1002/cmmi.1517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2012] [Revised: 08/20/2012] [Accepted: 10/15/2012] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- The Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre; University of Cambridge; Box 65 Addenbrooke's Hospital; Cambridge; CB2 0QQ; UK
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- Institute of Nuclear Chemistry; Johannes Gutenberg-University; Fritz-Strassmann-Weg 2; 55128; Mainz; Germany
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- Institute of Nuclear Chemistry; Johannes Gutenberg-University; Fritz-Strassmann-Weg 2; 55128; Mainz; Germany
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- Institute of Nuclear Chemistry; Johannes Gutenberg-University; Fritz-Strassmann-Weg 2; 55128; Mainz; Germany
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Mendonça AC, Martins AF, Melchior A, Marques SM, Chaves S, Villette S, Petoud S, Zanonato PL, Tolazzi M, Bonnet CS, Tóth É, Di Bernardo P, Geraldes CFGC, Santos MA. New tris-3,4-HOPO lanthanide complexes as potential imaging probes: complex stability and magnetic properties. Dalton Trans 2013; 42:6046-57. [DOI: 10.1039/c2dt32237d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Véron A, Sugimura A, Luckhurst GR, Martins AF. Properties of the static NMR response of a confined thin nematic film of 5CB-d2 under crossed electric and magnetic fields: theory and experiments. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2012; 86:051708. [PMID: 23214806 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.86.051708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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This work describes an investigation of the static (or quasistatic) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) response in a nematic liquid crystal confined between two planar conducting plates and subject to a magnetic field and an electric field produced by a difference of voltage applied on the plates. Deuterium NMR spectroscopy of 4-pentyl-d(2)-4'-cyanobiphenyl (5CB-d(2)) under these conditions has revealed a voltage dependent inhomogeneous director distribution for a particular narrow range of voltages and for a fixed magnetic field (that of the spectrometer). In the ideal setup the two plates are assumed to be rigorously parallel, so that a difference of voltage applied on the plates leads to a constant electric field normal to them. When the magnetic field is parallel to the plates (orthogonal geometry) there exists a threshold value of the electric field for which the effect of both fields exactly compensate; moreover, for stronger electric field the director aligns with the electric field while for weaker electric field the director aligns with the magnetic field. If there is a lack of parallelism between the two plates, the electric field becomes inhomogeneous so that it may be larger than the threshold value in some region of the sample and smaller in the remaining part of the sample. In that case the director will adopt essentially two orientations within the sample, namely, parallel or perpendicular to the magnetic field, and the position of the frontier between the two domains depends on the voltage. This feature is clearly shown by deuterium NMR spectra that exhibit a transfer of intensity between two quadrupolar doublets with increase in the applied voltage. The coexistence of two director populations occurs for a range of voltages that depends on the degree of nonparallelism; accordingly, an estimation of this range by NMR yields an experimental estimation of the lack of parallelism. A tiny tilt of the magnetic field (nonorthogonal geometry) entrains a notably different behavior since a single doublet with voltage dependent splitting is observed in this case. In a first stage (simple model) of this work, the main features observed for the orthogonal and nonorthogonal geometries are interpreted within the framework of Leslie-Ericksen theory by employing the concept of a single effective field replacing the two real fields. However, the spectra reveal an additional director distribution, especially for the orthogonal geometry, that cannot be interpreted by this simple approach. In a second stage (advanced model), these less clear features have been investigated by numerical simulations of a two-dimensional model which includes the effects of inversion walls and of the high relative dielectric anisotropy of 5CB.
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- A Véron
- Department of Materials Science and CENIMAT/I3N, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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Ferreira MF, Martins AF, Martins CIO, Ferreira PM, Tóth É, Rodrigues TB, Calle D, Cerdan S, López-Larrubia P, Martins JA, Geraldes CFGC. Amide conjugates of the DO3A-N-(α-amino)propionate ligand: leads for stable, high relaxivity contrast agents for MRI? Contrast Media Mol Imaging 2012; 8:40-9. [DOI: 10.1002/cmmi.1492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Miguel F. Ferreira
- Centro de Química, Campus de Gualtar; Universidade do Minho; 4710-057 Braga Portugal
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- Center of Neurosciences and Cell Biology; University of Coimbra; Largo Marquês de Pombal Coimbra Portugal
- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire UPR 4301, CNRS; Rue Charles Sadron 45071 Orléans France
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- Center of Neurosciences and Cell Biology; University of Coimbra; Largo Marquês de Pombal Coimbra Portugal
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- Centro de Química, Campus de Gualtar; Universidade do Minho; 4710-057 Braga Portugal
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire UPR 4301, CNRS; Rue Charles Sadron 45071 Orléans France
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- Cancer Research UK; Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre; Cambridge CB2 0RE UK
- Department of Biochemistry; University of Cambridge; Cambridge CB2 1GA UK
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas ‘Alberto Sols’, CSIC-UAM; Madrid Spain
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas ‘Alberto Sols’, CSIC-UAM; Madrid Spain
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- Centro de Química, Campus de Gualtar; Universidade do Minho; 4710-057 Braga Portugal
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- Center of Neurosciences and Cell Biology; University of Coimbra; Largo Marquês de Pombal Coimbra Portugal
- Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology; University of Coimbra; P.O. Box 3046 3001-401 Coimbra Portugal
- Centro de Química de Coimbra, Rua Larga; University of Coimbra; 3004-535 Coimbra Portugal
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Lima LMP, Delgado R, Hermann P, Ševčík R, Lubal P, Carvalho HF, Martins AF, Tóth É, Geraldes CFGC. Tris(phosphonomethyl)cyclen Derivatives: Thermodynamic Stability, Kinetics, Solution Structure, and Relaxivity of Ln3+ Complexes. Eur J Inorg Chem 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201101335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Chaves S, Mendonça AC, Marques SM, Prata MI, Santos AC, Martins AF, Geraldes CFGC, Santos MA. A gallium complex with a new tripodal tris-hydroxypyridinone for potential nuclear diagnostic imaging: solution and in vivo studies of 67Ga-labeled species. J Inorg Biochem 2010; 105:31-8. [PMID: 21134600 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2010.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2010] [Revised: 09/27/2010] [Accepted: 09/29/2010] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The gallium(III) complex of a new tripodal 3-hydroxy-4-pyridinone (3,4-HP) chelator has been studied in terms of its physico-chemical and in vivo properties aimed at potential application as probe for nuclear imaging. In particular, based on spectrophotometric titrations, the hexa-coordinated (1:1) gallium complex appeared as the major species in a wide physiological acid-neutral pH range and its high stability (pGa=27.5) should avoid drug-induced toxicity resulting from Ga(III) accumulation in tissues due to processes of transmetallation with endogenenous ligands or demetallation. A multinuclear ((1)H and (71)Ga) NMR study gave some insights into the structure and dynamics of the gallium(III) chelate in solution, which are consistent with the tris-(3,4-HP) coordination and an eventual pseudo-octahedral geometry. Biodistribution and scintigraphic studies of the (67)Ga(III) labelled chelate, performed in Wistar rats, confirmed the in vivo stability of the radiolabelled complex, its non interaction with blood proteins and its quick renal clearance. These results indicate good perspectives for potential application of extrafunctionalized analogues in radiodiagnostic techniques.
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- Sílvia Chaves
- Centro de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Técnico-UTL, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
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Bagatini MD, Vasconcelos TG, Laughinghouse HD, Martins AF, Tedesco SB. Biomonitoring hospital effluents by the Allium cepa L. test. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 2009; 82:590-592. [PMID: 19224103 DOI: 10.1007/s00128-009-9666-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2007] [Accepted: 02/03/2009] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Hospital effluents are serious problems in developing countries like Brazil, and when not treated adequately, can cause mutagenic effects on live organisms. Biomonitors, like Allium cepa L., which is one of the most used plant species when monitoring effluent genotoxicity, have been used to alert the world population about environmental contamination and genotoxic chemical emissions. The Allium cepa test was used to evaluate the genotoxicity of a hospital effluent in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. During the study, chromosomal disruptions, anaphasic bridges, and micronuclei during telophase were observed, indicating environmental toxicity risk.
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- M D Bagatini
- Laboratory of Plant Cytogenetics, Department of Biology, Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Av. Roraima, 1000, Cidade Universitária, Santa Maria, RS, CEP 97105-900, Brazil
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Ferreira MF, Martins AF, Martins JA, Ferreira PM, Tóth É, Geraldes CF. Gd(DO3A-N-α-aminopropionate): a versatile and easily available synthon with optimized water exchange for the synthesis of high relaxivity, targeted MRI contrast agents. Chem Commun (Camb) 2009:6475-7. [DOI: 10.1039/b912201j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Silvério S, Torres S, Martins AF, Martins JA, André JP, Helm L, Prata MIM, Santos AC, Geraldes CFGC. Lanthanide chelates of (bis)-hydroxymethyl-substituted DTTA with potential application as contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging. Dalton Trans 2009:4656-70. [DOI: 10.1039/b823402g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Vieira EA, Carvalho FIF, Chaves MS, de Oliveira AC, Benin G, Hartwig I, Silva JAG, Bertan I, Martins AF, Martins LF. Virulence Variability of Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae Isolates Collected in Three Counties from Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Plant Dis 2007; 91:66-70. [PMID: 30781068 DOI: 10.1094/pd-91-0066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Using isolates collected in three counties of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, the goals of this work were to determine (i) the pattern of virulence or avirulence of the isolates to 25 Pc resistance genes, (ii) the similarity in virulence among Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae isolates considering their pattern of virulence or avirulence, (iii) the race code for each isolate by the North American system of nomenclature, and (iv) the supplemental Pc genes potentially useful as local differentials for P. coronata f. sp. avenae races. The results indicate that the southern Brazilian rust isolates presented a high level of virulence, because 66% of inoculations manifested the high infection type. Only the Pc 68 gene was effective against all tested isolates. In general, each isolate presented a different pattern of virulence or avirulence, which indicates the high variability for virulence that the fungus presents at the sampled sites. However, the North American system of nomenclature was not completely sufficient in distinguishing southern Brazilian races. Thus, the genes Pc 36, Pc 53, Pc 55, and Pc 63 represent a possible gene combination to be incorporated into the North American system of nomenclature.
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- E A Vieira
- Ph.D., Embrapa Cerrados, C.P. 8223, 73310-970, Planaltina, DF, Brazil
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- Ph.D., Universidade Federal de Pelotas, C.P. 354, 96010-900, Pelotas, RS, Brazil
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- Ph.D., Embrapa Trigo, C.P. 451, 99001-970, Passo Fundo, RS, Brazil
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- Ph.D., Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Rodovia PR 469, km 01, 85501-970, Pato Branco, PR, Brazil
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- M.Sc., Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
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Zavascki AP, Goldani LZ, Gonçalves ALS, Martins AF, Barth AL. High prevalence of metallo-beta-lactamase-mediated resistance challenging antimicrobial therapy against Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a Brazilian teaching hospital. Epidemiol Infect 2006; 135:343-5. [PMID: 16824253 PMCID: PMC2870577 DOI: 10.1017/s0950268806006893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/10/2006] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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The prevalence of metallo-beta-lactamase (MBL) production among Pseudomonas aeruginosa nosocomial isolates from a Brazilian teaching hospital was determined. A total of 512 P. aeruginosa isolates were recovered from 245 patients during a 10-month period. Ninety-four (38.4%, 95% CI 32.2-44.8%) isolates were MBL producers. Most resistance to beta-lactams was mediated by MBL. Forty-one (16.7%) were resistant to all drugs except polymyxin B and 33 (80.5%) of these were MBL producers. Clonal dissemination, documented by DNA macrorestriction, played a major role for the spread of MBL isolates. The blaSPM-1 gene was demonstrated by PCR in 14 randomly selected MBL isolates. The extremely high prevalence of MBL production found challenges the choice of therapeutics for P. aeruginosa, and measures to control horizontal dissemination of MBL producers are urgently required.
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- A P Zavascki
- Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital São Lucas da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
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Bohrer D, Hörner R, do Nascimento PC, Adaime M, Pereira ME, Martins AF, Hartz SA. Interference in the Limulus amebocyte lysate assay for endotoxin determination in peritoneal dialysis fluids and concentrates for hemodialysis. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2001; 26:811-8. [PMID: 11600292 DOI: 10.1016/s0731-7085(01)00459-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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The interference of the saline concentration of fluids for peritoneal dialysis and concentrates for hemodialysis on the Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) assay for endotoxins was investigated. The experiments were carried out individually with each substance that compose fluids for hemodialysis, to determine the possible inhibition or enhancement effects that they could cause on the LAL assay. The compositions were also assayed to investigate the possibility of synergistic effect. They were assayed by the gel-clot method from two different suppliers, and the samples that showed inhibition effect were also assayed by the chromogenic method. The samples were analysed at successive dilutions, with different LAL sensitivities, to satisfy the endotoxin limits of 5 EU/ml for the concentrate and 0.25 EU/ml for the fluid for dialysis peritoneal. The results showed that the major interference on the gel-clot assay occurs in presence of acetic acid and in concentrates containing acid acetic, even the pH being adjusted between 6.5 and 7.5. However, the test, after an adequate dilution, could be validating for all samples. Chromogenic test can be used for peritoneal dialysis fluids considering a limit of 0.25 EU/ml and sample dilution of eight times, but it cannot be used for concentrates for hemodialysis without further dilution. Considering the results and that the chromogenic is a more time-consuming method, endotoxins in fluids for hemodialysis can be satisfactorily assayed by the gel-clot method.
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- D Bohrer
- Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 97110 900 Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
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Zanella R, Primel EG, Gonçalves FF, Martins AF. Development and validation of a high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of clomazone residues in surface water. J Chromatogr A 2000; 904:257-62. [PMID: 11204239 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9673(00)00912-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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A method is described for the determination of clomazone residues in surface water by high-performance liquid chromatography with UV detection. The method involves solid-phase extraction with C18 extraction tubes. Clomazone was separated on a C18 column with a mobile phase of methanol-water (65:35, v/v) at pH 4.0 and a flow-rate of 1.0 ml/min. After optimization of the extraction and separation conditions, the method was validated. The method developed can be used for determination of clomazone in surface water, at the limit of 0.1 mcirog/l set by the European Union drinking water directive, with a 400-fold preconcentration.
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- R Zanella
- Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
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Polimeno A, Orian L, Martins AF, Gomes AE. Simulations of flow-induced director structures in nematic liquid crystals through leslie-ericksen equations. I. Computational methodology in two dimensions. Phys Rev E Stat Phys Plasmas Fluids Relat Interdiscip Topics 2000; 62:2288-2300. [PMID: 11088696 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.62.2288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/1999] [Revised: 01/21/2000] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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A computational treatment of the constitutive equations of nematodynamics, based on the Leslie-Ericksen approach, is presented and discussed for a rotating planar nematic sample subjected to a constant magnetic field. The dynamics of the velocity v and director n fields is taken into account exactly. Coupled partial differential equations suitable to be solved numerically are worked out, in terms of derived functionals of v and n and of their spatial and time derivatives. Time-dependent patterns of the director are obtained using a finite-difference scheme in a spatial polar grid. Several experimental situations are analyzed, corresponding to common experimental setups: continuously rotating samples for different values of the rotational speed; 30 degrees and 90 degrees step-rotation experiments. A comparison is made to existing approximate treatments. Dependence upon the sample dimension is also discussed.
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- A Polimeno
- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Padova, Via Loredan 2, 35131 Padova, Italy
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Martins AF, Gomes AE, Polimeno A, Orian L. Simulations of flow-induced director structures in nematic liquid crystals through leslie-ericksen equations. II. Interpretation Of NMR experiments in liquid crystal polymers. Phys Rev E Stat Phys Plasmas Fluids Relat Interdiscip Topics 2000; 62:2301-2309. [PMID: 11088697 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.62.2301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/1999] [Revised: 01/21/2000] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Computationally exact and approximate solutions of the Leslie-Ericksen equations for nematic liquid crystals in two dimensions are employed to calculate director distributions in cylindrical samples, rotating under the influence of a magnetic field. In particular, the time evolution of systems prepared initially in metastable states with respect to the magnetic field is investigated, and calculated director distributions are used to interpret rheo-NMR experiments in nematic liquid crystal polymers.
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- AF Martins
- Departamento de Cieinsertion markncia dos Materiais, Faculdade de Cieinsertion markncias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, P-2825-114 Monte de Caparica, Portugal
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Pavan FA, Dallago RM, Zanella R, Martins AF. Determination of deltamethrin in cattle dipping baths by high-performance liquid chromatography. J Agric Food Chem 1999; 47:174-176. [PMID: 10563868 DOI: 10.1021/jf980171b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Deltamethrin (S)-alpha-cyano-3-phenoxybenzyl) (1R,3R)-3-(2, 2-dibromovinyl)-2,2-dimethylcyclopropane-1-carboxylate is classified as a pyrethroid pesticide that is largely used as an acaricide and scabicide. For bovines, especially, the treatment is done with the aid of dipping baths of the pyrethroid solution. Analytical control of the concentration of deltamethrin in these baths must be done periodically in order to guarantee treatment efficacy. In the proposed procedure, the sample is prepared by centrifugation followed by filtration and measurement by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with spectrophotometric detection at 275 nm. Separation is done in a Nucleosil C-18 column with acetonitrile-water as the mobile phase. A calibration curve was constructed with external standards, and a detection limit of 0.2 mg L(-)(1) was obtained. In the samples analyzed, only ca. 20% of the total deltamethrin content was found in the solution. The results obtained demonstrate the potential of the described procedure for the determination of deltamethrin in animal baths.
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- F A Pavan
- Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 97105-900 Santa Maria, RS, Brasil
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Mello CF, Kraemer CK, Filippin A, Morsch VM, Rodrigues AL, Martins AF, Rubin MA. Effect of lead acetate on neurobehavioral development of rats. Braz J Med Biol Res 1998; 31:943-50. [PMID: 9698759 DOI: 10.1590/s0100-879x1998000700010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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We investigated the effects of lead exposure during the pre- and postnatal period on the neurobehavioral development of female Wistar rats (70-75 days of age, 120-150 g) using a protocol of lead intoxication that does not affect weight gain. Wistar rats were submitted to lead acetate intoxication by giving their dams 1.0 mM lead acetate. Control dams received deionized water. Growth and neuromotor development were assessed by monitoring daily the following parameters in 20 litters: body weight, ear unfolding, incisor eruption, eye opening, righting, palmar grasp, negative geotaxis, cliff avoidance and startle reflex. Spontaneous alternation was assessed on postnatal day 17 using a T maze. The animals' ability to equilibrate on a breaker rim was measured on postnatal day 19. Lead intoxication was confirmed by measuring renal, hepatic and cerebral lead concentration in dams and litters. Lead treatment hastened the day of appearance of the following parameters: eye opening (control: 13.5 +/- 0.6, N = 88; lead: 12.9 +/- 0.6, N = 72; P < 0.05), startle reflex (control: 13.0 +/- 0.8, N = 88; lead: 12.0 +/- 0.7, N = 72; P < 0.05) and negative geotaxis. On the other hand, spontaneous alternation performance was hindered in lead-exposed animals (control: 37.6 +/- 19.7; lead: 57.5 +/- 28.3% of alternating animals; P < 0.05). These results suggest that lead exposure without concomitant undernutrition alters rat development, affecting specific subsets of motor skills.
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- C F Mello
- Departamento de Química, Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, RS, Brasil.
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Emanuelli T, Rocha JB, Pereira ME, Porciuncula LO, Morsch VM, Martins AF, Souza DO. Effect of mercuric chloride intoxication and dimercaprol treatment on delta-aminolevulinate dehydratase from brain, liver and kidney of adult mice. Pharmacol Toxicol 1996; 79:136-43. [PMID: 8884872 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0773.1996.tb00257.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Dimercaprol is a compound used in the treatment of mercury intoxication, however with low therapeutic efficacy. It is assumed that dimercaprol acts by reactivating target sulfhydryl-containing proteins. In the present investigation we studied the inhibitory effect of mercuric chloride treatment (3 days with 2.3 or 4.6 mg/kg HgCl2, sc) in mice on cerebral, renal and hepatic delta-aminolevulinate dehydratase (ALA-D) activity, and a possible reversal of the effect of mercury by dimercaprol (0.25 mmol/kg, 24 hr after the last mercury injection). Mercuric chloride did not inhibit cerebral ALA-D at the doses injected. Dimercaprol treatment did not restore the normal enzyme activity of the liver after the 25% inhibition caused by 4.6 mg/kg HgCl2. In the kidney, dimercaprol enhanced the inhibitory effect of 4.6 mg/kg mercuric chloride (from 35% after mercury treatment alone to 65% after mercury plus dimercaprol treatment). Mercury content increased in kidney after exposure to 2.3 or 4.6 mg/kg and the levels attained were higher than in any other organ Mercury accumulated in liver only after exposure to 4.6 mg/kg HgCl2, and dimercaprol further increased mercury deposition. Dimercaprol treatment also increased the levels of mercury in brain of animals exposed to 4.6 mg/kg HgCl2 The enzymes from all sources presented similar sensitivity to the combined effect of HgCl2 and dimercaprol in vitro. In the absence of preincubation, 0-500 muM dimercaprol potentiated the inhibitory effect of HgCl2 on ALA-D activity. In the presence of preincubation, and 100 and 250 muM dimercaprol enhanced ALA-D sensitivity to mercury, whereas 500 muM dimercaprol partially protected the enzyme from mercury inhibition. Dimercaprol (500 muM) inhibited renal and hepatic ALA-D when preincubated with the enzymes. These data suggested that the dimercaprol-Hg complex may have a more toxic effect on ALA-D activity than Hg2+. Furthermore, the present data show that dimercaprol did not acts by reactivating mercury-inhibited sulfhydryl-containing ALA-D, and that indeed it may have an inhibitory effect per se depending on the tissue.
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- T Emanuelli
- Department of Chemistry, Santa Maria Federal University, RS, Brasil
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Monteiro JG, Martins AF, Figueira A, Saraiva MJ, Costa PP. Ocular changes in familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy with dense vitreous opacities. Eye (Lond) 1991; 5 ( Pt 1):99-105. [PMID: 2060679 DOI: 10.1038/eye.1991.19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) is a hereditary disease which eventually causes serious ocular problems. Seven eyes from patients with FAP 1 were vitrectomised, and the insoluble proteins from the vitreous were purified, the amyloid protein isolated, and the prealbumin characterised with a monoclonal antibody against amyloid fibril protein. Before surgery, visual acuity was very poor, due to abundant deposits in the vitreous, frequently attached to the posterior lens capsule. The pupil had peculiar indentations and the pupillary reflexes were abnormal. Intraocular pressure (IOP) was at the upper limit of normal. In the ocular fundus an intraretinal perifoveal gray ring was sometimes seen. Vitrectomy improved visual acuity, but the reappearance of vitreous deposits reduced it to 8.8/10 after 33.4 months, when treatment was needed for most of the eyes to control IOP. Amyloid and the mutant form of prealbumin characteristic of FAP 1, TTR Met 30, were shown to be present in the vitreous.
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- J G Monteiro
- Servico de Oftalmologia, Hospital Geral de Santo António, Porto, Portugal
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Martins AF, Esnault P, Volino F. Martins, Esnault, and Volino reply. Phys Rev Lett 1988; 61:900. [PMID: 10039461 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.61.900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Martins AF, Esnault P, Volino F. Measurement of the viscoelastic coefficients of main-chain nematic polymers by an NMR technique. Phys Rev Lett 1986; 57:1745-1748. [PMID: 10033534 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.57.1745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Riemschneider R, Martins AF, Dietsch P. [Determination of microelements in the human placenta. III. Commun.: atomic-absorption spectrophotometric determination of Zn, Cu, Cd, Mn, Fe, and Mg contents of human placentas (author's transl)]. Geburtshilfe Frauenheilkd 1978; 38:971-7. [PMID: 710885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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In human placentas from the West Berlin area is the content on Zn, Cu, Cd, Mn, Fe, and Mg determined by means of the flameless and the flame atom absorption spectrophotometry, respectively.
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Riemschneider R, Martins AF. [Determination of microelements in human placenta II. Commun.: Spectrophotometric determination of zinc content in human placenta (author's transl)]. Geburtshilfe Frauenheilkd 1978; 38:643-7. [PMID: 680544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The zinc content of human placenta is determinaed by means of an improved combined dithizone-zincon-method. The results obtained are given as follows: 11.13 +/- 0.62 ppm in the fresh and 64.98 +/- 3.34 ppm in the dried material.
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Riemschneider R, Martins AF. [Determination of microelements in placenta I. Commun.: spectrophotometric determination of copper content of human placentas (author's transl)]. Geburtshilfe Frauenheilkd 1978; 38:371-5. [PMID: 348561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The copper content of human placenta determined by means of the Bathocuproinemethod lies at 1,21 +/- 0,18 ppm in the fresh and 7,06 +/- 1,04 ppm in the dried material. Furthermore an improved generally applicable method for decomposition of biological materials that prevents the volatilization of trace elements is described.
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