Photochemical properties of a new kind of anti-cancer drug: N-glycoside compound

• 来源期刊: 中国科学B辑(英文版)
• 年，卷（期）: 2008,（9）
• 页码范围: 872-877
• 页数: 6页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1007/s11426-008-0091-7

摘要

Due to the nontoxicity and efficient anti-cancer activity, more and more attention has been paid to N-glycoside compounds. Laser photolysis of N-(α-D-glucopyranoside) salicyloyl hydrazine (NGSH) has been performed for the first time. The research results show that NGSH has high photosensitivity and is vulnerable to be photo-ionized via a monophotonic process with a quantum yield of 0.02, generating NGSH+ and hydrated electrons. Under the aerobic condition of cells, the hydrated electrons are very easy to combine with oxygen to generate 1O2 and O2-, both of which are powerful oxidants that can kill the cancer cells. In addition, NGSH+ can be changed into neutral radicals by deprotonation with a pKa value of 4.02 and its decay constant was determined to be 2.55×109dm3·mol-1·s-1. NGSH also can be oxidized by SO4- with a rate constant of 1.76×109 dm3·mol-1·s-1, which further confirms the results of photoionization. All of these results suggest that this new N-glycoside compound might be useful for cancer treatment.