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. 1983 Aug 15;214(2):503–509. doi: 10.1042/bj2140503

Haematoporphyrin and OO'-diacetylhaematoporphyrin binding by serum and cellular proteins. Implications for the clearance of these photochemotherapeutic agents by cells.

A Smith, T Neuschatz
PMCID: PMC1152273  PMID: 6225429

Abstract

Haematoporphyrin derivative (HpD), a mixture of porphyrins, is currently used as a photochemotherapeutic agent in the treatment of neoplasias. The interaction of purified components of HpD with serum and cellular proteins was investigated using absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy. The interactions of haematoporphyrin and OO'-diacetylhaematoporphyrin with human albumin and with haemopexin, the two major serum porphyrin-binding proteins, show stoichiometries of 1 mol of porphyrin bound per mol of protein. The apparent dissociation constants, Kd, are in the range of 1-2 microM for albumin and 3-4 microM for haemopexin. These two major components of HpD would, after intravenous injection, bind to albumin and circulate in serum as albumin complexes. Free porphyrin rather than porphyrin bound to albumin interacts with Morris hepatoma tissue culture cells. A rapid high-affinity saturable transport system operates at free porphyrin concentrations of less than 2 microM. In addition, fluorescence spectra show that components in rat liver cytosol can bind haematoporphyrin and OO'-diacetylhaematoporphyrin and distinguish these binders from those present in rat serum.

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