Journal
MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY RESEARCH
Volume 26, Issue 10, Pages 2639-2652Publisher
SPRINGER BIRKHAUSER
DOI: 10.1007/s00044-017-1962-2
Keywords
Photodynamic therapy; Methyl pyropheophorbide-a; Dicyanomethylene; Antitumor
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20972036, 21272048, 21471041]
- Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province [B20913]
- Program for Scientific Technological Innovation Team Construction in the Universities of Heilongjiang Province [211TD010]
- Scientific Research Fund of Heilongjiang Provincial Education Department [12531194]
- Natural Science Youth Foundation of Heilongjiang Province [QC2016011]
- Innovation Fund for Graduate Students of Harbin Normal University
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Chlorophyll has always been used as the leading compound for photodynamic therapy drug development. In this paper, a novel methyl pyropheophorbide-a- derived photosensitizer, 3-acetyl-3-devinyl-13(1)-dicyanomethylene-pyropheophorbide-a was synthesized through modifications at C-13(1), C-3, and C-17 positions of methyl pyropheophorbide-a. The compound exhibited a longer wavelength absorption at 713 nm (in methanol) than that of methyl pyropheophorbide-a (667 nm) due to the enlarged the aromatic conjugation system by dicyanomethylene, allowing it to be potential in deep tumor treatment. Moreover, benefiting from the carboxylic group at C-17 and the acetyl group at C-3, the title compound was endowed with better water solubility than that of methyl pyropheophorbide-a. Detailed in vitro photodynamic therapy research showed ADCPPa could be uptaken by cancer cells successfully and killed the cancer cells more efficiently than the leading compound methyl pyropheophorbide-a under light (light dose 10 J/cm(2)) due to the high singlet oxygen quantum yield (65.98%). The excellent anti-photobleaching ability (degradation rate 1.6% in 10 min) also boosted its potential in practical application. In addition, the research has disclosed that during photochemical processes of photodynamic therapy, the formation of singlet oxygen after photodynamic therapy treatment played a major role, comparing with the formation of superoxide anion and radicals. Finally, the real time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) experiments have showed that the target compound has important regulating effect on expression of CDK2 and Survivin, consequently leading to apoptosis and cell death.
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