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Journal Article
Charge effect on the photoinactivation of Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria by cationic meso-substituted porphyrins
2009
Overview
Background
In recent times photodynamic antimicrobial therapy has been used to efficiently destroy Gram (+) and Gram (-) bacteria using cationic porphyrins as photosensitizers. There is an increasing interest in this approach, namely in the search of photosensitizers with adequate structural features for an efficient photoinactivation process. In this study we propose to compare the efficiency of seven cationic porphyrins differing in
meso
-substituent groups, charge number and charge distribution, on the photodynamic inactivation of a Gram (+) bacterium (
Enterococcus faecalis
) and of a Gram (-) bacterium (
Escherichia coli
). The present study complements our previous work on the search for photosensitizers that might be considered good candidates for the photoinactivation of a large spectrum of environmental microorganisms.
Results
Bacterial suspension (10
7
CFU mL
-1
) treated with different photosensitizers concentrations (0.5, 1.0 and 5.0 μM) were exposed to white light (40 W m
-2
) for a total light dose of 64.8 J cm
-2
. The most effective photosensitizers against both bacterial strains were the Tri-Py
+
-Me-PF and Tri-Py
+
-Me-CO
2
Me at 5.0 μM with a light fluence of 64.8 J cm
-2
, leading to > 7.0 log (> 99,999%) of photoinactivation. The tetracationic porphyrin also proved to be a good photosensitizer against both bacterial strains. Both di-cationic and the monocationic porphyrins were the least effective ones.
Conclusion
The number of positive charges, the charge distribution in the porphyrins' structure and the
meso
-substituent groups seem to have different effects on the photoinactivation of both bacteria. As the Tri-Py
+
-Me-PF porphyrin provides the highest log reduction using lower light doses, this photosensitizer can efficiently photoinactivate a large spectrum of environmental bacteria. The complete inactivation of both bacterial strains with low light fluence (40 W m
-2
) means that the photodynamic approach can be applied to wastewater treatment under natural light conditions which makes this technology cheap and feasible in terms of the light source.
Publisher
BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,BMC
Subject
Anti-Bacterial Agents - chemistry
/ Anti-Bacterial Agents - pharmacology
/ Bacteria
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ Control
/ Gram-Negative Bacteria - drug effects
/ Gram-Positive Bacteria - drug effects
/ Mycology
/ Photosensitizing Agents - chemistry
/ Photosensitizing Agents - pharmacology
/ Plants
/ Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship
/ Virology
