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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 26, Issue 12, Pages 2713-2718Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201904607
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cancer; hNQO1; phenalenones; photosensitizers; reactive oxygen species
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Human NAD(P)H: Quinone Oxidoreductase 1 (hNQO1) is an attractive enzyme for cancer therapeutics due to its significant overexpression in tumors compared to healthy tissues. Its unique catalytic mechanism involving the two-electron reduction of quinone-based compounds has made it a useful target to exploit in the design of hNQO1 fluorescent chemosensors and hNQO1-activatable-prodrugs. In this work, hNQO1 is exploited for an optical therapeutic. The probe uses the photosensitizer, phenalenone, which is initially quenched via photo-induced electron transfer by the attached quinone. Native phenalenone is liberated in the presence of hNQO1 resulting in the production of cytotoxic singlet oxygen upon irradiation. hNQO1-mediated activation in A549 lung cancer cells containing high levels of hNQO1 induces a dose-dependent photo-cytotoxic response after irradiation. In contrast, no photo-cytotoxicity was observed in the normal lung cell line, MRC9. By targeting hNQO1, this scaffold can be used to enhance the cancer selectivity of photodynamic therapy.
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