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Apoptosis photoinduction by C60 fullerene in human leukemic T cells
K O Palyvoda1, I I Grynyuk, S V Prylutska
1Palladin Institute of Biochemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Abstract:
The viability of normal (Wistar rat thymocytes) and transformed (human leukemia Jurkat cells) T cells after UV/Vis irradiation in the presence of pristine C60 fullerene was studied. The data obtained have shown that C60 fullerene exhibits cytotoxic effect against transformed T lymphocytes when combined with UV/Vis irradiation using mercury-vapor lamp (320-600 nm). C60 fullerene photocytotoxicity was not detected in thymocytes. C60-dependent photoinduced apoptosis of Jurkat cells was confirmed by DNA fragmentation and caspase-3 activation. No substantial increase of caspase-3 activation was observed in thymocytes treated with C60 fullerene plus irradiation, while antileukemic agent cytosine arabinoside was shown to induce caspase-3 activation both in Jurkat cells and thymocytes. The data obtained may be useful for development of photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy with selective action on leukemia cells.
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