Photosensitizer Drug Delivery via an Optical Fiber
作者:Matibur Zamadar、Goutam Ghosh、Adaickapillai Mahendran、Mihaela Minnis、Bonnie I. Kruft、Ashwini Ghogare、David Aebisher、Alexander Greer
DOI:10.1021/ja200840p
日期:2011.5.25
An optical fiber has been developed with a maneuverable miniprobe tip that sparges O-2 gas and photodetaches pheophorbide (sensitizer) molecules. Singlet oxygen is produced at the probe tip surface which reacts with an alkene spacer group releasing sensitizer upon fragmentation of a dioxetane intermediate. Optimal sensitizer photorelease occurred when the probe tip was loaded with 60 nmol sensitizer, where crowding of the pheophorbide molecules and self-quenching were kept to a minimum. The fiber optic tip delivered pheophorbide molecules and singlet oxygen to discrete locations. The 60 nmol sensitizer was delivered into petrolatum; however, sensitizer release was less efficient in toluene-d(8) (3.6 nmol) where most had remained adsorbed on the probe tip, even after the covalent alkene spacer bond had been broken. The results open the door to a new area of fiber optic-guided sensitizer delivery for the potential photodynamic therapy of hypoxic structures requiring cytotoxic control.
Synthesis of <i>cis</i>- and <i>trans</i>-1,2-Diphenoxyethenes and <i>p</i>,<i>p‘</i>-Disubstituted Diaryloxyethenes