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ArticleViruses2021

A Comparison of Porphyrin Photosensitizers in Photodynamic Inactivation of RNA and DNA Bacteriophages.

Joe Heffron, Matthew Bork, Brooke K Mayer, Troy Skwor

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Article in Viruses, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Photosensitizing Antivirals.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Joe HeffronDepartment of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Marquette University, 1637 W. Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA.
Matthew BorkDepartment of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Rockford University, 5050 E. State St., Rockford, IL 61108, USA.
Brooke K MayerDepartment of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Marquette University, 1637 W. Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4858-2834
Troy SkworDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2400 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1920-0788
Marquette University · USRockford University · USUniversity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Effective broad-spectrum antiviral treatments are in dire need as disinfectants and therapeutic alternatives. One such method of disinfection is photodynamic inactivation, which involves the production of reactive oxygen species from dissolved oxygen in response to light-stimulated photosensitizers. This study evaluated the efficacy of functionalized porphyrin compounds for photodynamic inactivation of bacteriophages as human virus surrogates. A blue-light light emitting diode (LED) lamp was used to activate porphyrin compounds in aqueous solution (phosphate buffer). The DNA bacteriophages ΦX174 and P22 were more resistant to porphyrin TMPyP photodynamic inactivation than RNA bacteriophage fr, with increasing rates of inactivation in the order: ΦX174 << P22 << fr. Bacteriophage ΦX174 was therefore considered a resistant virus suitable for the evaluation of three additional porphyrins. These porphyrins were synthesized from TMPyP by inclusion of a central palladium ion (PdT4) and/or the addition of a hydrophobic C14 chain (PdC14 or C14). While the inactivation rate of bacteriophage ΦX174 via TMPyP was similar to previous reports of resistant viruses, ΦX174 inactivation increased by a factor of approximately 2.5 using the metalloporphyrins PdT4 and PdC14. The order of porphyrin effectiveness was TMPyP < C14 < PdT4 < PdC14, indicating that both Pd

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Virus InactivationBacteriophagesDisinfectionPhotosensitizing AgentsPorphyrinsPhotosensitizing AgentsPorphyrinsblue lightdisinfectionmetalloporphyrinsinglet oxygenTMPyPvirus

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PMID33807067
PMCPMC8005208
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