Fluorescence spectral properties of the anticancer drug topotecan by steady-state and frequency domain fluorometry with one-photon and multi-photon excitation

Ignacy Gryczynski; Zygmunt Gryczynski; Joseph R. Lakowicz; Danzhou Yang; Thomas G. Burke

doi:10.1111/j.1751-1097.1999.tb03307.x

Fluorescence spectral properties of the anticancer drug topotecan by steady-state and frequency domain fluorometry with one-photon and multi-photon excitation

Ignacy Gryczynski, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Joseph R. Lakowicz, Danzhou Yang, Thomas G. Burke

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Topotecan is an antitumor agent with activity against a variety of cancers. We examined the steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectral properties of topotecan with one- and two-photon excitation. Topotecan was found to display a high two-photon cross section near 20 GM for wavelengths within the fundamental output of a Ti: sapphire laser, 800-880 nm. In frozen solution the anisotropies of topotecan are near the theoretical maxima for one-photon and two-photon excitation with colinear electronic transitions. The intensity and anisotropy decays of topotecan fluorescence were found to be homogeneous (single exponentials) in phosphate-buffered saline and propylene glycol. The steady-state and time-resolved data indicate that topotecan binds to a double-helical DNA oligomer d(AT)₁₀ resulting in increased anisotropies and multiexponential intensity and anisotropy decays. Subnanosecond components in the anisotropy decay of the DNA-topotecan complex suggest loose binding of the drug to DNA. Loose binding of topotecan to DNA is also revealed by accessibility of topotecan to collisional quenching by iodide.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	421-428
Number of pages	8
Journal	Photochemistry and Photobiology
Volume	69
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-1097.1999.tb03307.x
State	Published - Apr 1999
Externally published	Yes

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Fluorescence spectral properties of the anticancer drug topotecan by steady-state and frequency domain fluorometry with one-photon and multi-photon excitation. / Gryczynski, Ignacy; Gryczynski, Zygmunt; Lakowicz, Joseph R. et al.
In: Photochemistry and Photobiology, Vol. 69, No. 4, 04.1999, p. 421-428.

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