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BMC Mol Cell Biol ; 20(1): 16, 2019 06 20.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31221093

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BACKGROUND: Colon cancer affects 1.23 million people worldwide and is the third most common malignant disease in men and the second in women. The only curative treatment is surgical resection, but a significant number of patients develop local recurrence or distant metastases. One of the alternative treatment methods for colon cancer is photodynamic therapy (PDT). In recent years, hypericin (HYP) derived from Hypericum perforatum has been suggested as a strong candidate photosensitizer for PDT. Our interest is focused on the biophysical changes in colon cancer cells in relation to HYP-mediated PDT. RESULTS: In this study, HYP-mediated PDT at 0.04, 0.08 or 0.15 µM HYP concentrations was performed in HT-29 colon adenocarcinoma cells and the Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectra of the spin labeled cells were obtained. Plasma membranes are already heterogeneous structures; the presence of cancer cells increased the heterogeneity and also fluidity of the plasma membranes. Therefore, the obtained spectra were evaluated by EPRSIMC program, which provides the calculation of heterogeneous structures up to four spectral components with different fluidity characteristics. Generally, two motional patterns were obtained from calculations and the number of them increased at the highest concentration. As the order parameters of the most populated components compared, an increase was observed depending on the HYP concentration. However, because of the heterogeneous structure of membrane, the order parameters of the less populated components did not exhibit a regular distribution. CONCLUSION: After HYP-mediated PDT, concentration dependent changes were observed in the domain parameters indicating an increase in the HYP accumulation.


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Adenocarcinoma/drug therapy , Colonic Neoplasms/drug therapy , Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy/methods , Perylene/analogs & derivatives , Photochemotherapy , Photosensitizing Agents/therapeutic use , Plant Extracts/therapeutic use , Adenocarcinoma/pathology , Anthracenes , Cell Membrane/drug effects , Colonic Neoplasms/pathology , Computer Simulation , Cyclic N-Oxides/chemistry , HT29 Cells , Humans , Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions , Hypericum/chemistry , Membrane Fluidity/drug effects , Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/drug therapy , Perylene/metabolism , Perylene/pharmacology , Perylene/therapeutic use , Photosensitizing Agents/metabolism , Photosensitizing Agents/pharmacology , Plant Extracts/metabolism , Plant Extracts/pharmacology , Spin Labels
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