• 文献标题:   Photo-physicochemical properties and in vitro photodynamic therapy activity of morpholine-substituted Zinc(II)-Phthalocyanines pi-pi stacked on biotinylated graphene quantum dots
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   NENE LC, MANAGA M, NYOKONG T
  • 作者关键词:   phthalocyanine, graphene quantum dot, photodynamic therapy, morpholine, biotin
  • 出版物名称:   DYES PIGMENTS
  • ISSN:   0143-7208 EI 1873-3743
  • 通讯作者地址:   Rhodes Univ
  • 被引频次:   8
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.dyepig.2019.03.002
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Two morpholine-substituted Zn(II) phthalocyanines, complex 4 and the cationic 5, were synthesized and conjugated to graphene quantum dots (GQDs) and biotinylated GQDs (GQDs-biotin) by non-covalent at-at interactions. The GQDs-biotin are prepared as potential nanoparticle-based Pc delivery vector combined with a receptor -mediated transport system using biotin. The photo-physicochemical properties of the Pc complexes and their corresponding conjugates were studied. Upon conjugation, the fluorescence quantum yields decrease for 4 and 5, however, the triplet quantum yields were increased for the conjugates. All samples demonstrated singlet oxygen generation. For conjugated complexes, the singlet quantum yields decreased due to the screening effect in some cases. An increase in the photodynamic therapy activities upon quatemization was observed for the conjugates, with the cell viability decreasing from 66.2% to 51.2% after treatment for 4-GQDs and 5-GQDs, respectively. A relatively better performance was also observed for the cationic complex in combination with the biotin functionalized GQDs, 5-GQDs-biotin, where the cell viability was 34.9% after treatment. Moreover, the cellular uptake of 5-GQDs-biotin over 24 h was relatively higher compared to Pc complex alone and other Pcs-GQDs conjugates.