Andrés H Thomas, Carolina Lorente, Karina Roitman, Maia M Morales, M Laura Dántola
Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas (INIFTA), Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, CCT La Plata-CONICET, Casilla de Correo 16, Sucursal 4, 1900 La Plata, Argentina.
Journal of photochemistry and photobiology. B, Biology 2013 Mar 5Pterins, heterocyclic compounds widespread in biological systems, are able to photoinduce oxidation of DNA and its components. In the present study, we have investigated the photosensitizing properties of pterin (Ptr), the parent compound of oxidized pterins, using bovine serum albumin (BSA) as target. Aqueous solutions of BSA were exposed to UV-A irradiation (350nm) in the presence of Ptr, under various experimental conditions. The photosensitized processes were followed by UV/vis spectrophotometry, an enzymatic method for H2O2 determination and electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). We present data that demonstrate unequivocally that BSA is damaged by Ptr. Although association between Ptr and the protein was evidenced by steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence measurements, the photosensitized damage takes place via a purely dynamic mechanism, which involves an electron transfer from BSA to the triplet excited state of Ptr, formed after UV-A excitation. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Andrés H Thomas, Carolina Lorente, Karina Roitman, Maia M Morales, M Laura Dántola. Photosensitization of bovine serum albumin by pterin: a mechanistic study. Journal of photochemistry and photobiology. B, Biology. 2013 Mar 5;120:52-8
PMID: 23419535
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