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Hypericin Accumulation as a Determinant of PDT Efficacy
Author(s) -
Kessel David
Publication year - 2020
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/php.13302
Subject(s) - hypericin , photodynamic therapy , photosensitizer , chemistry , intracellular , cell culture , programmed cell death , cancer research , biophysics , stereochemistry , pharmacology , biochemistry , apoptosis , photochemistry , biology , genetics , organic chemistry
Efficacy of photodynamic therapy (PDT) with hypericin was compared using two cell lines in monolayer culture. Photokilling was substantially impaired in the A549 (human‐derived lung tumor) when compared with the 1c1c7 murine hepatoma. The efficacy of PDT with regard to photokilling was correlated with the steady‐state intracellular hypericin concentration. There was otherwise no difference in subcellular targets or the pathway to cell death: paraptosis. In a prior study involving cell lines derived from patients with head and neck cancer, differences in response to PDT had shown no correlation with photosensitizer uptake.