作者:Miryam Chiara Malacarne、Stefano Banfi、Enrico Caruso
DOI:10.1039/d0pp00026d
日期:2020.6
Two aza-BODIPY photosensitizes (PSs, compounds 7 and 8), featuring an iodine atom on each pyrrolic unit of their structure, were synthesized in fairly good yields starting from commercial products and tested in vitro on two human cancer cell lines (HCT116 and SKOV3) to assess their photodynamic efficacy. After treating the cell cultures with variable concentrations of 7 or 8 and incubating for the desired incubation time, the cells were irradiated for two hours with a red-light emitting diode (LED) device; afterwards the extent of cell death was determined by MTT assay. Besides the killing effect, the new PSs were also studied to determine further parameters related to photodynamic efficacy, such as the resistance towards photobleaching, the rate of singlet oxygen production, the fluorescence quantum yields, the cellular uptake and the localization inside the cells and, finally, flow cytometric analysis for apoptosis. Considering the results as a whole, these aza-BODIPYs can be considered to be promising photosensitizers because of their IC50 values being below micromolar concentrations and for more rather interesting features. Actually, these molecules have proved to be: (a) quite stable towards photobleaching; (b) good producers of singlet oxygen and (c) highly penetrating the cells with a wide distribution in the cytosol. Furthermore, in accordance with the good rate of singlet oxygen production, the apoptotic cells reach 30% and this allows us to assume a low inflammatory effect of the in vivo PDT treatment; thus a possible in vivo application of these aza-BODIPYs might be plausible.
我们从商业产品出发,以相当高的产率合成了两种杂氮-BODIPY光敏剂(PSs,化合物 7 和 8),其结构的每个吡咯单元上都有一个碘原子,并对两种人类癌细胞系(HCT116 和 SKOV3)进行了体外测试,以评估它们的光动力功效。用不同浓度的 7 或 8 处理细胞培养物并培养所需时间后,用红光发光二极管(LED)装置照射细胞两小时;然后用 MTT 法测定细胞的死亡程度。除杀灭效果外,研究人员还对新型 PS 进行了研究,以确定与光动力功效有关的其他参数,如对光漂白的耐受性、单线态氧产生率、荧光量子产率、细胞吸收和在细胞内的定位,最后还对细胞凋亡进行了流式细胞分析。从整体结果来看,这些氮杂-BODIPYs 的 IC50 值低于微摩尔浓度,而且具有更多有趣的特征,因此可以被认为是很有前途的光敏剂。事实上,这些分子已被证明:(a) 对光漂白相当稳定;(b) 能产生良好的单线态氧;(c) 对细胞的穿透力强,在细胞液中分布广泛。此外,由于单线态氧的产生率很高,凋亡细胞达到了 30%,这使得我们可以假定体内光致脱色疗法的炎症效应很低;因此,这些氮杂-BODIPYs 在体内的应用可能是可行的。