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LIGHT‐INDUCED LEAKAGE OF SPIN LABEL MARKER FROM LIPOSOMES IN THE PRESENCE OF PHOTOTOXIC PHENOTHIAZINES
Author(s) -
Copeland Edmund S.,
Alving Carl R.,
Grenan Marie M.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
photochemistry and photobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.818
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1751-1097
pISSN - 0031-8655
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1976.tb06795.x
Subject(s) - phenothiazine , liposome , phototoxicity , chemistry , photochemistry , membrane , biophysics , electron paramagnetic resonance , biochemistry , pharmacology , in vitro , nuclear magnetic resonance , medicine , physics , biology
— Liposomes prepared from dipalmitoyl lecithin, cholesterol and dicetyl phosphate and containing a trapped spin label marker were exposed to long wavelength UV light in the presence of a series of phenothiazine tranquilizers. EPR spectroscopy was used to detect spin label marker released from liposomes, taking advantage of the disappearance of line broadening from electron spin exchange which occurred on spin label release. The minimum effective phototoxic dose in mice of these phenothiazines was also determined. Kinetic studies of light‐induced spin label release from phenothiazine‐sensitized liposomes showed that membrane damage was rapidly induced and that the damaging species were short‐lived. The damage process was oxygen dependent and could be temporarily prevented by cysteamine or α‐tocopherol added immediately before irradiation. Only those phenothiazines which mediated light‐dependent liposomal membrane damage had phototoxic activity in mice and the degree of photosensitization was parallel in the two systems. In both photosensitization phenomena, the nature of the substituent at the phenothiazine 2‐position was more important than the phenothiazine side chain.