Natural photosensitizers in antimicrobial photodynamic therapy

E Polat, K Kang - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Health problems and reduced treatment effectiveness due to antimicrobial resistance have
become important global problems and are important factors that negatively affect life …

Porphyrin-containing MOFs and COFs as heterogeneous photosensitizers for singlet oxygen-based antimicrobial nanodevices

A Schlachter, P Asselin, PD Harvey - ACS applied materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Visible-light irradiation of porphyrin and metalloporphyrin dyes in the presence of molecular
oxygen can result in the photocatalytic generation of singlet oxygen (1O2). This type II …

The application of porphyrins and their analogues for inactivation of viruses

NS Lebedeva, YA Gubarev, MO Koifman, OI Koifman - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The problem of treating viral infections is extremely relevant due to both the emergence of
new viral diseases and to the low effectiveness of existing approaches to the treatment of …

Photophysical, photooxidation, and biomolecule-interaction of meso-tetra (thienyl) porphyrins containing peripheral Pt (II) and Pd (II) complexes. Insights for …

I Tisoco, MC Donatoni, HFV Victória… - Dalton …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the synthesis and characterization of two novel tetra-cationic porphyrins,
containing Pt (II) or Pd (II) polypyridyl complexes attached at the peripheral position of N4 …

Investigation of isomeric tetra-cationic porphyrin activity with peripheral [Pd (bpy) Cl]+ units by antimicrobial photodynamic therapy

CH da Silveira, V Vieceli, DJ Clerici… - Photodiagnosis and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, we report the antimicrobial photoinactivation using tetra-cationic porphyrins with
peripheral palladium (II) complexes against bacterial strains. Two different isomeric Pd (II) …

In vitro antimicrobial photodynamic therapy using tetra-cationic porphyrins against multidrug-resistant bacteria isolated from canine otitis

MG Seeger, AS Ries, LT Gressler, SA Botton… - Photodiagnosis and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial-resistant bacteria have been frequently isolated from canine otitis.
Photodynamic therapy using porphyrins as photosensitizing molecules is an alternative …

[HTML][HTML] Peripheral tetra-cationic Pt (II) porphyrins photo-inactivating rapidly growing mycobacteria: First application in mycobacteriology

GG Rossi, KB Guterres, CH da Silveira, KS Moreira… - Microbial …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this manuscript, we report, for the first time, the photoinactivation evaluation of tetra-
cationic porphyrins with peripheral Pt (II)-bpy complexes in the photodynamic inactivation …

Investigation of powerful fungicidal activity of tetra-cationic platinum (II) and palladium (II) porphyrins by antimicrobial photodynamic therapy assays

SC Pinto, TV Acunha, JM Santurio, LB Denardi… - Photodiagnosis and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This manuscript reports enhanced antimicrobial photoinactivation using tetra-cationic
porphyrins with peripheral platinum (II) and palladium (II) complexes against fungal …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of DNA-binding and DNA-photocleavage ability of tetra-cationic porphyrins containing peripheral [Ru (bpy) 2Cl]+ complexes: Insights for …

VA Oliveira, H Terenzi, LB Menezes, OA Chaves… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The present work reports the spectroscopic and theoretical evaluation of the interaction
between calf-thymus DNA (CT-DNA) and free-base meso-tetra-(ruthenated) porphyrin (H 2 …

Metal center ion effects on photoinactivating rapidly growing mycobacteria using water-soluble tetra-cationic porphyrins

KB Guterres, GG Rossi, MMA de Campos, KS Moreira… - Biometals, 2020 - Springer
Rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) are pathogens that belong to the mycobacteriaceae
family and responsible for causing mycobacterioses, which are infections of opportunistic …