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- 2023A new G-quadruplex-specific photosensitizer inducing genome instability in cancer cells by triggering oxidative DNA damage and impeding replication fork progressioncitations
- 2022bay -Dissymmetrical hetero- and Aza-Benzannulated PeryleneDiimides as new n-type semiconductorscitations
- 2021Anisotropic confinement of chromophores induces second-order nonlinear optics in a nanoporous photonic metamaterialcitations
- 2020Synthesis, characterization and use of benzothioxanthene imide based dimerscitations
- 2020Synthesis, characterization and use of benzothioxanthene imide based dimerscitations
- 2019Triphenylamine and some of its derivatives as versatile building blocks for organic electronic applicationscitations
- 2018Triphenylamine-Based Push–Pull σ–C$_{60}$ Dyad As Photoactive Molecular Material for Single-Component Organic Solar Cells: Synthesis, Characterizations, and Photophysical Propertiescitations
- 2017Simply Complex: The Efficient Synthesis of an Intricate Molecular Acceptor for High-Performance Air-Processed and Air-Tested Fullerene-Free Organic Solar Cellscitations
- 2015Interplay Between Side Chain Pattern, Polymer Aggregation, and Charge Carrier Dynamics in PBDTTPD: PCBM Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cellscitations
- 2015A Mechanofluorochromic Push-Pull Small Molecule with Aggregation-Controlled Linear and Nonlinear Optical Propertiescitations
- 2013Synthesis and characterization of a novel nonlinear optical hyperbranched polymer containing a highly performing chromophorecitations
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A new G-quadruplex-specific photosensitizer inducing genome instability in cancer cells by triggering oxidative DNA damage and impeding replication fork progression
Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Photodynamic therapy (PDT) ideally relies on the administration, selective accumulation and photoactivation of a photosensitizer (PS) into diseased tissues. In this context, we report a new heavy-atom-free fluorescent G-quadruplex (G4) DNA-binding PS, named DBI. We reveal by fluorescence microscopy that DBI preferentially localizes in intraluminal vesicles (ILVs), precursors of exosomes, which are key components of cancer cell proliferation. Moreover, purified exosomal DNA was recognized by a G4-specific antibody, thus highlighting the presence of such G4-forming sequences in the vesicles. Despite the absence of fluorescence signal from DBI in nuclei, light-irradiated DBI-treated cells generated reactive oxygen species (ROS), triggering a 3-fold increase of nuclear G4 foci, slowing fork progression and elevated levels of both DNA base damage, 8-oxoguanine, and double-stranded DNA breaks. Consequently, DBI was found to exert significant phototoxic effects (at nanomolar scale) toward cancer cell lines and tumor organoids. Furthermore, in vivo testing reveals that photoactivation of DBI induces not only G4 formation and DNA damage but also apoptosis in zebrafish, specifically in the area where DBI had accumulated. Collectively, this approach shows significant promise for image-guided PDT.</jats:p>