Lanthanide-Based T2ex and CEST Complexes Provide Insights into the Design of pH Sensitive MRI Agents

Zhang, Lei and F. Martins, André and Zhao, Piyu and Wu, Yunkou and Tircsó, Gyula and Sherry, A. Dean (2017) Lanthanide-Based T2ex and CEST Complexes Provide Insights into the Design of pH Sensitive MRI Agents. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2017 (56). pp. 16626-16630. ISSN 1433-7851

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Abstract

The CESTand 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 pH5 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 pKaQs 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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