SELECTIVE PHOTOOXIDATION OF THIOLS SENSITIZED BY AQUEOUS SUSPENSIONS OF CADMIUM SULFIDE

-Finely powdered cadmium sulfide in aqueous, air-saturated, phosphate buffered suspension sensitizes the photooxidation of cysteine to cystine with good efficiency; several additional thiols and inorganic sulfides are also photooxidized. The other amino acids (histidine, methionine, tryptophan, tyrosine) known to be rapidly photooxidized with typical organic photosensitizers are photooxidized only very slowly. The quantum yield of oxygen uptake during cysteine photooxidation is pH dependent with a maximum (0.021) at pH 9.5; the yield is not increased in D₂O and is not decreased appreciably by sodium azide, suggesting that singlet oxygen is not involved in the photooxidation process. The slow rate of photooxidation of histidine, which is known to react efficiently with singlet oxygen, also suggests that little if any singlet oxygen is produced by illuminated cadmium sulfide. Superoxide dismutase inhibits the yield of cysteine photooxidation to a maximum of approximately 50%, suggesting the partial involvement of superoxide in the reaction mechanism. The quantum yields of the photooxidation of cysteine, ethylenediaminetetraacetate and inorganic sulfides decrease as the wavelength of the exciting light is increased. Yeast alcohol dehydrogenase, a sulfhydryl enzyme, is inactivated by photodynamic treatment with cadmium sulfide; lysozyme, which has no free sulfhydryl groups, is not.     

THE EFFECTS OF PORPHYRIN STRUCTURE AND AGGREGATION STATE ON PHOTOSENSITIZED PROCESSES IN AQUEOUS AND MICELLAR MEDIA

The efficiency of several porphyrins at 10 μM and 83 μM as sensitizers of the photooxidation of 0.1 mM tryptophan and histidine via a singlet oxygen-mechanism was studied in pH 7.4-buffered aqueous solutions and in aqueous dispersions of Triton X-100 micelles. The porphyrins were either solubilized in the bulk aqueous medium or associated with the micellar phase, whereas the amino acids were always located in the aqueous phase. With those porphyrins, such as uroporphyrin I, meso-tetra (4-sulfonatophenyl)porphine, meso-tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphine and meso-tetra)N,N,N-trimethylanilinium)porphine, which are > 98% monomeric in both media, the efficiency of histidine photooxidation was independent of the site of O₂(¹Δ_g) generation, as shown by the closely similar values for the photooxidation rate constant and oxygen-consumption quantum yield in the presence and absence of Triton micelles; the same indications were provided by photokinetic experiments with tryptophan. Actually, laser flash photolysis studies showed that the micelle-incorporation of the above mentioned porphyrins brought about only minor changes in their photophysical properties, including the relative yield of O₂(¹Δ_g) generation. On the other hand, hematoporphyrin IX, its Zn²⁺-complex, and coproporphyrin III are largely aggregated in homogeneous aqueous solution; their incorporation into Triton micelles caused an increase of the triplet quantum yield and an enhancement of the oxygen-consumption quantum yield and photooxidation rate constant for both histidine and tryptophan. The lower photosensitizing efficiency of aggregated porphyrin species in comparison with the corresponding monomeric porphyrin was confirmed by measuring the initial rate and quantum yield of oxygen consumption upon irradiation of 1 mM histidine and tryptophan in the presence of different hematoporphyrin concentrations within the 0.3-100μM range.     

FLASH PHOTOLYSIS STUDIES OF HEMATO-AND COPRO-PORPHYRINS IN HOMOGENEOUS AND MICROHETEROGENEOUS AQUEOUS DISPERSIONS

This paper describes an experimental study of the photo properties of the triplet (T,) states of hematoporphyrin (HP) and coproporphyrin (CP), particularly in relation to their medium dependence and reactivity towards oxygen. Triplet-triplet absorption spectra of HP and CP have been determined in aqueous buffer at pH = 7.4 and in water-methanol and water-formamide mixtures. The spectra corrected for ground state contributions show major absorption peaks near 400 nm and lesser peaks near 500 nm. Extinction coefficient measurements have been made and their dependences on solvent composition investigated. Natural lifetimes of the T₁ states of HP and CP and the bimolecular quenching constants with oxygen have been determined. The quantum yields of T₁ formation are ca. 0.6 in buffer rising to 0.8 and higher in predominantly organic media. Incorporation of the porphyrins into micellar phases similarly causes φ_T, to increase. Quantum efficiencies of O^?₂ and O₂(^lΔ_g) formation have been determined for HP in buffer, some binary mixtures and micellar dispersions. Superoxide yields are low and may result from photo-ionization processes. O₂(^lΔ_g) yields are large but appear to have an unexpected dependence on the medium.     

PHOTOBLEACHING OF MONO-l-ASPARTYL CHLORIN e6 (NPe6): A CANDIDATE SENSITIZER FOR THE PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY OF TUMORS

Abstract— Most sensitizers used for the photodynamic therapy (PDT) of tumors photobleach on illumination. Thus, it is of interest to examine the photobleaching behavior of new sensitizers proposed for use in PDT. This report surveys the quantum yields and kinetics of the photobleaching of mono- l -aspartyl chlorin e₆ (NPe6), a hydrophilic chlorin that has many of the photoproperties desirable in a sensitizer for clinical PDT. It is a very effective sensitizer for the PDT of several types of model tumors in animals and is now in Phase I clinical trials. The quantum yield of NPe6 photobleaching in pH 7.4 phosphate buffer in air was 8.2 × 10⁻⁴; this is greater than the yields for typical porphyrin photosensitizers. For example, the yields for hematoporphyrin and uroporphyrin are 4.7 × 10 ⁵ and 2.8 × 10⁻⁵, respectively. The yield decreased significantly in organic solvents of low dielectric constant. The Sn derivative of NPe6 was more light stable than NPe6 (yield = 5.7 × 10 ⁻⁶), while the Zn derivative was more sensitive (yield = 1.9 × 10⁻²). Oxygen appeared to be necessary for the photobleaching of NPe6; however, bleaching was not inhibited by 100 mM azide, an efficient quencher of singlet oxygen. The photooxidizable substrates cysteine, dithiothreitol and furfuryl alcohol increased the quantum yield of photoblcaching two- to four-fold, while the electron acceptor, met-ronidazole, increased it almost six-fold. Photobleaching yields for several other chlorins were also measured.     

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