Research Article

Accelerated 19F·MRI Detection of Matrix Metalloproteinase-2/-9 through Responsive Deactivation of Paramagnetic Relaxation Enhancement

Table 3

Biosensor relaxivity for 19F at 293 K and 9.4 Tesla obtained from Figure 3 relaxation data fitting using equations 1/T1 = ρ1 = ρ1[Rx] ∗ [Rx] +  and 1/T2 = ρ2 = ρ2[Rx] ∗ [Rx] + .

Intact biosensorCleaved biosensor

ρ1ρ1 = 92.9 ± 7.3 s−1ρ1[Rx] = 2.76 ± 0.40 s−1 mM−1
T1 = 10.7 ± 1.0 ms (Figure 3(a))ρ10 = +0.98 ± 0.33 s−1 (Figure 3(c))
ρ2ρ2 = 289 ± 4 s−1ρ2[Rx] = 9.85 ± 0.37 s−1·mM−1
T2 = 3.46 ± 0.42 ms (Figure 3(b))ρ20 = 3.90 ± 0.30 s−1 (Figure 3(d))

Data are for biosensor with MMP-2/-9-specific sequence using MMP-2 as the cleavage enzyme.