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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Wiley Interdiscip Rev Nanomed Nanobiotechnol. 2015 Feb 13;7(5):722–735. doi: 10.1002/wnan.1336

TABLE 1.

The Strategies, Particle Loadings, and Effects on T1 Relaxivity (r1) of the VLP Systems Discussed in this Work are Tabulated

VLP Chelator Attachment Loading (Gd) r1/ Gd
(mM−1/second−1)
r1/particle
(mM−1/second−1)
Ref.
GdCl3 1 20 20 12
DTPA-Gd DTPA 1 4 4 4
DOTA-Gd DOTA 1 5 5 13
CCMV Native Ca2+ site Native 140 202 28,280 12
CCMV Cal Domain Genetic 172 210 36,120 14
CCMV DOTA NHS 61 46 2,806 14
MS2 DTPA SCN 514 14 7,196 15
CPMV RNA & DOTA RNA & Click 268 15.5 4,154 16
Qβ DOTA Click 153 11.9 1,821 16
TMV DOTA Click to interior 3,417 10.7 36,562 13
TMV DOTA Click to exterior 1,712 18.4 31,501 13
TMV sphere DOTA Click 25,815 15.2 392,388 13
sHSP-Branched polymer DTPA SCN 159 19 3,021 9
P22-AEMA DTPA SCN 9,100 22 200,200 4
Qβ-OEGMA DOTA Click 610 11.6 7,092 17

All r1 measurements were taken between 60 and 64MHz Larmor frequency.