In-vitro investigation of ALA-induced protoporphyrin IX.

Protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) induced endogenously by delta-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), can be used to destroy photodynamically tumor cells. The influence of several parameters on the PpIX formation of human skin fibroblasts was investigated by fluorescence spectrophotometry. The PpIX formation increases (1) with the pH value of ALA (2) with the ALA incubation time in a moderate sigmoidal manner, and (3) with the ALA concentration up to 700 micrograms ml-1. Other parameters, such as cell washing procedures, have no influence on the PpIX production. ALA has to be applied in a concentration 30 times higher than external protoporphyrin IX and Photosan 3 in order to produce the same cytotoxic damage. Protoporphyrin bleaching and photoproduct generation at 646 nm was observed. Additional information about intracellular PpIX formation kinetics and its topographically correlation to cell structures was gained by a CCD camera mounted on a fluorescence microscope. A few minutes after the onset of incubation with ALA, PpIX generation is observed in the mitochondria, followed by relocalization in the cytoplasm and the nuclear membrane.

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