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Light-harvesting antenna and proton-activated photodynamic effect of a novel BODIPY-fullerene C60 dyad as potential antimicrobial agent
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2019-03Registro en:
Agazzi, Maximiliano Luis; Durantini, Javier Esteban; Gsponer, Natalia Soledad; Durantini, Andres Matías; Bertolotti, Sonia Graciela; et al.; Light-harvesting antenna and proton-activated photodynamic effect of a novel BODIPY-fullerene C60 dyad as potential antimicrobial agent; Wiley VCH Verlag; Chemphyschem; 20; 9; 3-2019; 1110-1125
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Autor
Agazzi, Maximiliano Luis
Durantini, Javier Esteban
Gsponer, Natalia Soledad
Durantini, Andres Matías
Bertolotti, Sonia Graciela
Durantini, Edgardo Néstor
Resumen
A covalently linked BODIPY−fullerene C 60 dyad (BDP−C 60 ) was synthesized as a two-segment structure, which consists of a visible light-harvesting antenna attached to an energy or electron acceptor moiety. This structure was designed to improve the photodynamic action of fullerene C 60 to inactivate bacteria. The absorption spectrum of BDP−C 60 was found to be a superposition of the spectra of its constitutional moieties, whereas the fluorescence emission of the BODIPY unit was strongly quenched by the fullerene C 60 . Spectroscopic, calculations, and redox studies indicate a competence between photoinduced energy and electron transfer. Protonating the dimethylaminophenyl substituent through addition of an acidic medium led to a substantial increase in the fluorescence emission, triplet excited state formation, and singlet molecular oxygen production. At physiological pH, photosensitized inactivation of Staphylococcus aureus mediated by 1 μM BDP−C 60 exhibited a 4.5 log decrease of cell survival (>99.997 %) after 15 min irradiation. A similar result was obtained with Escherichia coli using 30 min irradiation. Moreover, proton-activated photodynamic action of BDP−C 60 turned this dyad into a highly effective photosensitizer to eradicate E. coli. Therefore, BDP−C 60 is an interesting photosensitizing structure in which the light-harvesting antenna effect of the BODIPY unit combined with the protonation of dimethylaminophenyl group can be used to improve the photoinactivation of bacteria.