A. S. Buchelnikov, P. A. Sokolov, R. R. Ramasanoff
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Abstract
The important photophysical process that determines the efficiency of photosensitizers is saturation of the triplet state through the intersystem crossing during light absorption. We studied the C60 fullerene complexes with the amino acids (glycine, lysine, methionine, and threonine) as promising photosensitizers. The calculations for all these complexes demonstrate high values of the transition rate constants to the triplet states and a high probability of generating reactive oxygen species upon excitation in visible light. The carboxyl groups of amino acids, which are not involved in electronic excitation, can be used to conjugate photoactive complexes with a tumor-targeting drug delivery system, such as specific DNA aptamers.
BiophysicsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-Biophysics
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Biophysics is a multidisciplinary international peer reviewed journal that covers a wide scope of problems related to the main physical mechanisms of processes taking place at different organization levels in biosystems. It includes structure and dynamics of macromolecules, cells and tissues; the influence of environment; energy transformation and transfer; thermodynamics; biological motility; population dynamics and cell differentiation modeling; biomechanics and tissue rheology; nonlinear phenomena, mathematical and cybernetics modeling of complex systems; and computational biology. The journal publishes short communications devoted and review articles.