Dual laser activatable brominated hemicyanine as a highly efficient and photostable multimodal phototherapy agent

Hande Gunduz, Kubra Bilici, Sultan Cetin, Abdullah Muti, Alphan Sennaroglu*, Havva Yagci Acar, Safacan Kolemen

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Abstract

Dual phototherapy agents have attracted great interest in recent years as they offer enhanced cytotoxicity on cancer cells due to the synergistic effect of photodynamic and photothermal therapies (PDT/PTT). In this study, we demonstrate a brominated hemicyanine (HC-1), which is previously shown as mitochondria targeting PDT agent, can also serve as an effective photosensitizer for PTT for the first time under a single (640 nm or 808 nm) and dual laser (640 nm + 808 nm) irradiation. Generation of reactive oxygen species and photothermal conversion as a function of irradiation wavelength and power were studied. Both single wavelength irradiations caused significant phototoxicity in colon and cervical cancer cells after 5 min of irradiation. However, co-irradiation provided near-complete elimination of cancer cells due to synergistic action. This work introduces an easily accessible small molecule-based synergistic phototherapy agent, which holds a great promise towards the realization of local, rapid and highly efficient treatment modalities against cancer.

Original languageEnglish
Article number112171
JournalJournal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology
Volume217
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2021
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

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Funding

The authors would like to thank Merve Erkısa, Berkay Civan, and Öznur Baykut for their help on flow cytometry measurements, to Işınsu Baylam for fluorescence quantum yield and 1 O 2 phosphorescence measurements and to Minahil Khan for laser experiments. SK thanks Koç University for financial support. Scheme 1 and TOC were created with BioRender.com .

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Koç Üniversitesi

    Keywords

    • Cancer
    • Dual laser irradiation
    • Hemicyanine
    • Multimodal phototherapy
    • Small-molecule photosensitizers

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