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ArticleACS applied materials & interfaces2025

Cancer Photodynamic Therapy Enabled by Water-Soluble Chlorophyll Protein.

Lixin Liang, Wenjun Wang, Manjia Li, Yingjie Xu, Zhangdi Lu, Jingjing Wei, Ben Zhong Tang, Fei Sun, Rongbiao Tong

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Article in ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Lixin LiangGuangxi Key Laboratory of Special Biomedicine, School of Medicine, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1790-8472
Wenjun WangDepartment of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong, China.
Manjia LiDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong, China.
Yingjie XuDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong, China.
Zhangdi LuExponent Ltd., 12 Science Park West Avenue, Unit, Sha Tin 802-803, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Jingjing WeiCollege of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Anyang Institute of Technology, Anyang 455000, China.
Ben Zhong TangDepartment of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0293-964X
Fei SunDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3065-7471
Rongbiao TongDepartment of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2740-5222

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been utilized to treat various malignant cancers for more than a century. However, many photosensitizers (e.g., derivatives of porphyrins, chlorins, etc.) central to PDT are still suffering from limitations such as water insolubility, dark toxicity, photo/thermal-instability, difficult synthesis/preparation, and poor tumor selectivity. Numerous effective strategies include designing new synthetic photosensitizers by exploiting heavy atom effect, aggregation-induced emission effect (AIE), and electronic/energy effects (donor-acceptor, and Förster resonance energy transfer: FRET), and the linkage of activatable and targeting molecules has been developed to address one or more of these limitations. However, these structural modifications of photosensitizing organic molecules are synthetically challenging and unpredictable in terms of efficacy versus toxicity. Herein, we report a new and simple strategy for effective PDT by combining natural spinach-derived chlorophylls (photosensitizer) with natural water-soluble chlorophyll proteins (WSCPs) derived originally from plants and produced heterologously by bacteria (

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ChlorophyllNeoplasmsPhotochemotherapyPhotosensitizing AgentsAnimalsCell Line, TumorHumansMiceSinglet OxygenSolubilityWaterChlorophyllPhotosensitizing AgentsSinglet OxygenWatercancerchlorophyllphotodynamic therapyphotosensitizerwater-soluble chlorophyll protein

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PMID40050258
PMCPMC11931482

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