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Photocleavage of pDNA by bis-imidazolidino and bis-thioureido proflavines Cover

Photocleavage of pDNA by bis-imidazolidino and bis-thioureido proflavines

Open Access
|Dec 2015

Abstract

New photosensitizers are needed for photodynamic antimicrobial and anticancer chemotherapy. Two new groups of proflavine derivatives have been recently prepared and their action on the cancer cells has been investigated by our research team. In this paper, we studied an effect of UV-A irradiation of two groups of proflavines: 3,6-bis((1-alkyl-5-oxo-imidazolidin-2-yliden)imino)acridine hydrochlorides (AcrDIMs) and 1’,1”-(acridin-3,6-diyl)-3’,3”-dialkyldithiourea hydrochlorides (AcrDTUs) on a plasmid DNA (pDNA). These compounds induced a photocleavage of pDNA characteristic by generation of free radicals, single strand DNA breaks and formation of an open circular form of pDNA.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/acs-2015-0017 | Journal eISSN: 1339-3065 | Journal ISSN: 1337-978X
Language: English
Page range: 97 - 100
Published on: Dec 5, 2015
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
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© 2015 Alžbeta Cisárikováa, Pavel Abaffy, Ján Imrich, Helena Paulíková, published by Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
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