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ArticlePhotochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology2021

Laser photo-thermal therapy of epithelial carcinoma using pterin-6-carboxylic acid conjugated gold nanoparticles.

Linda Bertel, Stelia Carolina Mendez-Sanchez, Fernando Martínez-Ortega

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Article in Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Linda BertelCentro de Investigaciones en Catálisis, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Sede Guatiguará UIS, Km 2 vía Refugio, Piedecuesta, Colombia. linda.bertel@correo.uis.edu.co.
Stelia Carolina Mendez-SanchezGrupo de Investigación en Bioquímica Y Microbiología GIBIM, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Sede Guatiguará UIS, Km 2 vía Refugio, Piedecuesta, Colombia.
Fernando Martínez-OrtegaCentro de Investigaciones en Catálisis, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Sede Guatiguará UIS, Km 2 vía Refugio, Piedecuesta, Colombia. fmartine@uis.edu.co.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5931-4712
Industrial University of Santander · CO

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gold nanoparticles functionalized with folic acid toward the internalization into cancer cells have received considerable attention recently. Folic acid is recognized by folate receptors, which are overexpressed in several cancer cells; it is limited in normal cells. In this work, pterin-6-carboxylic acid is proposed as an agonist of folic acid since the pterin-6-carboxylic acid structure has a pterin moiety, the same as folic acid that is recognized by the folate receptor. Here a simple photochemical synthesis of gold nanoparticles functionalized with pterin-6-carboxylic acid is studied. These conjugates were used to cause photothermal damage of HeLa cells irradiating with a diode laser of 808 nm. Pterin-6-carboxylic acid-conjugated gold nanoparticles caused the death of the cell after near-infrared irradiation, dose-dependently. These results indicate a possible internalization of AuNPs via folate receptor-mediated endocytosis due to the recognition or interaction between the folate receptors of HeLa cells and pterin, P6CA.

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CarcinomaMetal NanoparticlesNanoparticlesCarboxylic AcidsCell SurvivalFolic AcidGoldHeLa CellsHumansLasersCarboxylic AcidsFolic AcidGold

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