[EN] Lipophilic photosensitizers able to photo-induce lipid oxidation in biomembranes are, in general, much more efficient than hydrophilic ones; acting through the formation of singlet oxygen (O-1(2)), which oxidizes the ...
[EN] Damage caused to biological targets through sunlight photosensitized reaction is of paramount importance due to their potential effects on human health. In these processes, a chemical alteration of a biomolecule may ...
Reid, Lara O.; Dántola, M. Laura; Petroselli, Gabriela; Erra-Balsells, Rosa; Miranda Alonso, Miguel Ángel; Lhiaubet, Virginie Lyria; Thomas, Andrés H.(American Chemical Society, 2019-11)
[EN] The main goal of the present work was to investigate the damages photoinduced by pterin (Ptr), an endogenous photosensitizer present in human skin under pathological conditions, on a globular protein such as ubiquitin ...
[EN] The photochemistry of the DNA biomacromolecule is an issue of paramount importance as it is part of the etiology of skin cancer development, being ultraviolet sunlight radiation the most relevant environmental carcinogen. ...
Farías, Jesuan J.; Lizondo-Aranda, Paloma; Thomas, Andrés H.; Lhiaubet, Virginie Lyria; Dántola, M. Laura(The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022-09)
[EN] Photoallergy is a photosensitivity disorder associated with a modified ability of the skin to react to the combined effect of drugs and sunlight. It has been attributed to the covalent conjugation of proteins with a ...