Specific Detection and Imaging of Enzyme Activity by Signal??Amplifiable Self??Assembling 19F MRI Probes

…, Y Takayama, M Narazaki, T Matsuda…

Index: Matsuo, Kazuya; Kamada, Rui; Mizusawa, Keigo; Imai, Hirohiko; Takayama, Yuki; Narazaki, Michiko; Matsuda, Tetsuya; Takaoka, Yousuke; Hamachi, Itaru Chemistry - A European Journal, 2013 , vol. 19, # 38 p. 12875 - 12883

Full Text: HTML

Citation Number: 13

Abstract

Abstract Specific turn-on detection of enzyme activities is of fundamental importance in drug discovery research, as well as medical diagnostics. Although magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most powerful techniques for noninvasive visualization of enzyme activity, both in vivo and ex vivo, promising strategies for imaging specific enzymes with high contrast have been very limited to date. We report herein a novel signal-amplifiable self- ...