[Development of Redox Metabolic Imaging Using Endogenous Molecules]

Yakugaku Zasshi. 2016;136(8):1107-14. doi: 10.1248/yakushi.15-00234-6.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

Redox metabolism plays a central role in maintaining homeostasis in living organisms. The electron transfer system in mitochondria produces ATP via endogenous redox molecules such as flavin mononucleotide (FMN), flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), and coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), which have flavin or quinone moieties. One-electron transfer reactions convert FMN, FAD, and CoQ10 to the free radical intermediates FMNH and FADH, and CoQ10H, respectively. Dynamic nuclear polarization-magnetic resonance imaging (DNP-MRI) allows us to visualize free radicals in vitro and in vivo. We present a spectroscopic imaging technology with DNP-MRI, which enables the imaging of multiple free radical intermediates such as FADH and CoQH. DNP-MRI can also identify various endogenous free radical intermediates derived from redox transformations.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adenosine Triphosphate / metabolism
  • Electron Transport
  • Flavin Mononucleotide
  • Flavin-Adenine Dinucleotide
  • Free Radicals
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
  • Mitochondria / metabolism
  • Molecular Imaging / methods*
  • Oxidation-Reduction
  • Ubiquinone / analogs & derivatives

Substances

  • Free Radicals
  • Ubiquinone
  • Flavin-Adenine Dinucleotide
  • Flavin Mononucleotide
  • Adenosine Triphosphate
  • coenzyme Q10