Product Description: Protoporphyrin IX disodium is a final intermediate in the heme biosynthetic pathway, which acts as a radiation sensitizer enhancing ROS generation even in a hypoxic state and inducing DNA damage. Protoporphyrin IX disodium also acts as a photo sensitizer undergoing photobleaching that occurs through direct degradation by light irradiation. Protoporphyrin IX disodium is formed and accumulated following 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) (HY-W000450) administration in the tumor cells of rats. Protoporphyrin IX disodium causes selective improvement of basal cell carcinoma when activated red fluorescence of a peak wavelength at 405 nm. Protoporphyrin IX disodium is promising for research of sonodynamic and photodynamic agents for a wide range of cancers, such as bladder cancer and nodular basal cell carcinoma[1][2][3][4][5].
Applications: Cancer-programmed cell death
Formula: C34H32N4Na2O4
References: [1]Yasushi Nakai, et al.Protoporphyrin IX induced by 5-aminolevulinic acid in bladder cancer cells in voided urine can be extracorporeally quantified using a spectrophotometer. /[2]Myrzakhmetov B, et al. Photophysical Properties of Protoporphyrin IX, Pyropheophorbide-a and Photofrin<sup>®</sup> in Different Conditions. Pharmaceuticals (Basel). 2021 Feb 9;14(2):138. /[3]Tope WD, et al. Protoporphyrin IX fluorescence induced in basal cell carcinoma by oral delta-aminolevulinic acid[J]. Photochem Photobiol. 1998 Feb;67(2):249-55. /[4]van den Boogert J, et al. 5-Aminolaevulinic acid-induced protoporphyrin IX accumulation in tissues: pharmacokinetics after oral or intravenous administration[J]. J Photochem Photobiol B. 1998 Jun 15;44(1):29-38. /[5]Li C, et al. G-quadruplexes sense natural porphyrin metabolites for regulation of gene transcription and chromatin landscapes. Genome Biol. 2022 Dec 15;23(1):259.
CAS Number: 50865-01-5
Molecular Weight: 606.62
Compound Purity: 96.5
Research Area: Cancer
Target: Endogenous Metabolite
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