A potential water-soluble ytterbium-based porphyrin-cyclen dual bio-probe for Golgi apparatus imaging and photodynamic therapy

Chem Commun (Camb). 2012 Oct 7;48(77):9646-8. doi: 10.1039/c2cc34963a.

Abstract

An amphiphilic water-soluble ytterbium complex which is photo-selective, functional and Golgi apparatus specific has been designed as a responsive dual probe capable of sensitizing emission within the biological window (660 and 750 nm), generating the singlet oxygen (Φ(Δ) = 0.45) and triggering local cell damage only upon exposure to visible and near-infrared laser excitation.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Agents / chemistry*
  • Antineoplastic Agents / pharmacology
  • Biosensing Techniques*
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Cell Proliferation / drug effects
  • Cyclams
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • Golgi Apparatus / ultrastructure*
  • HeLa Cells
  • Heterocyclic Compounds / chemistry
  • Humans
  • Organometallic Compounds / chemistry*
  • Organometallic Compounds / pharmacology
  • Photochemotherapy*
  • Porphyrins / chemistry
  • Solubility
  • Structure-Activity Relationship
  • Water / chemistry
  • Ytterbium / chemistry

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Cyclams
  • Heterocyclic Compounds
  • Organometallic Compounds
  • Porphyrins
  • Water
  • cyclen
  • Ytterbium