PUBLICATION

Modified Indulines: From Dyestuffs to In Vivo Theranostic Agents

Authors
Chen, Z., Pascal, S., Daurat, M., Lichon, L., Nguyen, C., Godefroy, A., Durand, D., Ali, L.M.A., Bettache, N., Gary-Bobo, M., Arnoux, P., Longevial, J.F., D'Aléo, A., Marchand, G., Jacquemin, D., Siri, O.
ID
ZDB-PUB-210624-2
Date
2021
Source
ACS applied materials & interfaces   13(26): 30337-30349 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Keywords
Imaging, PDT, dyes, in vivo, phenazinium, theory
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Antineoplastic Agents/chemical synthesis
  • Antineoplastic Agents/metabolism
  • Antineoplastic Agents/radiation effects
  • Antineoplastic Agents/therapeutic use*
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Fibroblasts/metabolism
  • Fluorescent Dyes/chemical synthesis
  • Fluorescent Dyes/metabolism
  • Fluorescent Dyes/radiation effects
  • Fluorescent Dyes/therapeutic use*
  • Humans
  • Light
  • Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging
  • Neoplasms/drug therapy
  • Phenazines/chemical synthesis
  • Phenazines/metabolism
  • Phenazines/radiation effects
  • Phenazines/therapeutic use*
  • Photochemotherapy
  • Photosensitizing Agents/chemical synthesis
  • Photosensitizing Agents/metabolism
  • Photosensitizing Agents/radiation effects
  • Photosensitizing Agents/therapeutic use*
  • Precision Medicine/methods
  • Singlet Oxygen/metabolism
  • Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
  • Zebrafish
PubMed
34159778 Full text @ ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces
Abstract
The efficient, versatile, and straightforward synthesis of the first N-alkyl analogues of induline 3B (8a and 8b) is reported. Thanks to the introduction of lipophilic substituents and their attractive photophysical properties (far-red emission and production of singlet oxygen), phenazinium 8b can be used as a theranostic agent and shows, at very low concentrations (100 nM), a remarkable ability to (i) image cells and zebrafish embryos with high quality under both mono- (514 nm) and biphotonic (790 and 810 nm) excitations, (ii) efficiently and quickly penetrate cancer cells rather than healthy fibroblasts, and (iii) induce a total or almost total cancer cell death in vitro and in vivo after illumination (λexc = 540-560 nm). The molecular structure of 8b is based on a triamino-phenazinium core only, with no need for additional components, highlighting the emergence of a minimalistic and versatile class of fluorescent probes for targeted photodynamic cancer therapy.
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Human Disease / Model
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Fish
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