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    The effectiveness of hematin and protoporphyrin IX as photosensitizers in singlet oxygen(1O2)generation was determined and at the same time the influence of different light wavelength on them was studied. The results revealed protoporphyrin IX showed stronger photosensitizing activity than hematin in singlet oxygen generation. The light intensity above 430lux activated protoporphyrin IX and the light intensity above 630lux activated hematin in accelerating lipid oxidation. And the stronger the intensity, the stronger the activated function.
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    Human adenocarcinoma cells of the line WiDr were incubated with 5-aminolevulinic acid to induce protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) and then exposed to laser light of wavelength 635 nm. The PpIX fluorescence decreased with increasing exposure. The decay rate was slightly dependent on the initial PpIX concentration. The PpIX fluorescence was halved by a fluence of about 40 J/cm2. Several fluorescing photoproducts were formed. The main one, supposedly the chlorin-type photoprotoporphyrin (Ppp), had a fluorescence excitation spectrum stretching out to about 680 nm with a maximum at around 668 nm. The formation kinetics of this product was dependent on the initial PpIX concentration. Moreover, it was selectively bleached by exposure to light at 670 nm. A photoproduct with an emission maximum at 652 nm, different from Ppp, remained after this exposure. Traces of a photoproduct(s) with fluorescence emission slightly blueshifted compared with that of PpIX, supposedly water-soluble porphyrins, were also detected after light exposure.
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    The main aim of this study was to assess conditions at which simple yeast-based model organism produces maximal levels of protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) after an exogenous administration of its precursor, 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), and the ferrous-ion chelator 2,2'-bipyridyl. We observed that the fluorescing porphyrin, produced after these administrations, was likely to be PpIX since fluorescence spectroscopy of the porphyrins produced endogenously in yeast cells resembles that of PpIX in DMSO and in vivo in the chick's chorioallantoic membrane model. Also, fluorescence lifetimes of these porphyrins are very similar to that of PpIX in vitro and in vivo. This suggests that PpIX is the main fluorescent compound produced by yeast in our conditions. We found that the conditions at which yeast produces the maximal PpIX were a synchronous administration of 5 μM ALA and 1 mM 2,2'-bipyridyl for yeast incubated in aqueous glucose and 1 mM 2,2'-bipyridyl in the presence of YPD medium. Such a simple model is of high interest to study basic mechanisms involved in the mitochondrial respiration since PpIX, which is produced in this organelle, can be used as an oxygen sensor, or to perform photodynamic therapy and photodiagnosis. Since the absorption and scattering coefficients of this model are much smaller than those of soft tissues over the visible part of the spectrum, a version of this model loaded with appropriated amounts of light absorbing and scattering particles could be designed as a phantom to mimic tumors containing PpIX, a useful tool to optimize certain cancer photodetection set-ups.
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    Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an innovative treatment of malignant or diseased tissues. The effectiveness of PDT depends on light dosimetry, oxygen availability, and properties of the photosensitizer (PS). Depending on the medium, photophysical properties of the PS can change leading to increase or decrease in fluorescence emission and formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) especially singlet oxygen (1O2). In this study, the influence of solvent polarity, viscosity, concentration, temperature, and pH medium on the photophysical properties of protoporphyrin IX, pyropheophorbide-a, and Photofrin® were investigated by UV-visible absorption, fluorescence emission, singlet oxygen emission, and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopies.
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    The Cover Feature shows how the controlled assembly of gold nanoparticles strongly enhances the visible-light photosensitizing efficiency of silica–PpIX nanocomposites (PpIX=protoporphyrin IX) by boosting the production of reactive oxygen species. More information can be found in the Article by G. Zampini et al. on page 553 in Issue 12, 2017 (DOI: 10.1002/cptc.201700139).
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    Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae accumulate in the presence of chelator 2,2'-dipyridyl, two fractions of photosensitizer protoporphyrin IX, which fluoresce with maxima at 625 and 635 nm. The two fractions were found to differ from each other in the dynamics and character of fluorescence photobleaching. In contrast to the protoporphyrin IX that fluoresces with a maximum at 625 nm, the protoporphyrin IX fraction that fluoresces with a maximum at 635 nm is more photolable; in addition, upon photobleaching of its fluorescence, a new maximum at 675 nm appears.
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    Human skin shows a strong autofluorescence in the red spectral region caused on the porphyrin production of the Gram positive lipophile skin bacterium Propionibacterium acnes. Irradiation of these bacteria reduces the integral fluorescence intensity and induces the formation of fluorescent photoproducts. The fluorescence band at around 670 nm and the decay times of around 1 ns and 5 ns are typical for protoporphyrin products. The photoproduct formation is connected with an increased absorption in the red spectral region. However the photodynamic activity of these photoproducts determined by scattering measurements on human erythrocytes is lower than that of protoporphyrin IX. 1:
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