Gadolinium-free Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Liver using an Oatp1-targeted Manganese(III) Porphyrin
Nystrom, N. N.; Liu, H.; Martinez, F. M.; Zhang, X.-a.; Scholl, T. J.; Ronald, J. A.
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Controversy surrounding gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) have rendered their continued utility highly contentious, but the liver-specific GBCA Gd(III) ethoxybenzyl-diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid (Gd(III)-EOB-DTPA) remains in use because it provides unique diagnostic information that could not be obtained by any other means. To address the need for an alternative liver-specific MRI contrast agent, we synthesized Mn(III) 20-(4-ethoxyphenyl) porphyrin-5,10,15-tricarboxylate (Mn(III)TriCP-PhOEt), which exhibited significantly higher r1 relaxivity than Gd(III)-EOB-DTPA, and targeted organic anion-transporting polypeptide 1 (Oatp1) channels as a biomarker of hepatocyte viability. Mn(III)TriCP-PhoEt increased the r1 relaxation rate of cells expressing rodent Oatp1a1 and human Oatp1b3, relative to control cells not expressing these liver channels. In mice, Mn(III)TriCP-PhoEt resulted in significant and specific increases in liver signal intensity on T1-weighted images, and significant decreases in liver T1 time relative to precontrast measurements. Our findings suggest that Mn(III)TriCP-PhOEt operates as a specific and sensitive MR contrast agent for in vivo liver imaging.
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