Issue 11, 2018

Cyclopeptidic photosensitizer prodrugs as proteolytically triggered drug delivery systems of pheophorbide A: part I – self-quenched prodrugs

Abstract

Herein, we report the synthesis of a new prodrug system consisting of regioselectively addressable functionalized templates bearing multiple pheophorbide A moieties for use in photodynamic therapy. These coupling reactions were achieved using copper-free “click” chemistry, namely a strain-promoted azide–alkyne cycloaddition. This new design was used to obtain well-defined quenched photosensitizer prodrugs with perfect knowledge of the number and position of loaded photosensitizers, providing structures bearing up to six photosentitizers and two PEG chains. These conjugates are ideally quenched in their native state regarding their fluorescence emission (up to 155 ± 28 times less fluorescent for an hexasubstituted conjugate than a monosubstituted non-quenched reference compound) or singlet oxygen production (decreased 8.7-fold in the best case) when excited. After 2 h of proteolytic activation, the fluorescence emission of a tetrasubstituted conjugate was increased 17-fold compared with the initial fluorescence emission.

Graphical abstract: Cyclopeptidic photosensitizer prodrugs as proteolytically triggered drug delivery systems of pheophorbide A: part I – self-quenched prodrugs

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
16 Jul 2018
Accepted
28 Aug 2018
First published
30 Aug 2018

Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2018,17, 1728-1738

Cyclopeptidic photosensitizer prodrugs as proteolytically triggered drug delivery systems of pheophorbide A: part I – self-quenched prodrugs

J. Bouilloux, O. Yuschenko, B. Dereka, G. Boso, H. Zbinden, E. Vauthey, A. Babič and N. Lange, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2018, 17, 1728 DOI: 10.1039/C8PP00317C

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