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- Title
Modulating cellular cytotoxicity and phototoxicity of fluorescent organic salts through counterion pairing.
- Authors
Broadwater, Deanna; Bates, Matthew; Jayaram, Mayank; Young, Margaret; He, Jianzhou; Raithel, Austin L.; Hamann, Thomas W.; Zhang, Wei; Borhan, Babak; Lunt, Richard R.; Lunt, Sophia Y.
- Abstract
Light-activated theranostics offer promising opportunities for disease diagnosis, image-guided surgery, and site-specific personalized therapy. However, current fluorescent dyes are limited by low brightness, high cytotoxicity, poor tissue penetration, and unwanted side effects. To overcome these limitations, we demonstrate a platform for optoelectronic tuning, which allows independent control of the optical properties from the electronic properties of fluorescent organic salts. This is achieved through cation-anion pairing of organic salts that can modulate the frontier molecular orbital without impacting the bandgap. Optoelectronic tuning enables decoupled control over the cytotoxicity and phototoxicity of fluorescent organic salts by selective generation of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species that control cell viability. We show that through counterion pairing, organic salt nanoparticles can be tuned to be either nontoxic for enhanced imaging, or phototoxic for improved photodynamic therapy.
- Subjects
CELL-mediated cytotoxicity; COMPUTER-assisted surgery; COMPANION diagnostics; FLUORESCENT dyes; PHOTODYNAMIC therapy
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2019, Vol 9, Issue 1, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41598-019-51593-z