Potentiation of antimicrobial photodynamic inactivation by potassium iodide and other inorganic salts (Conference Presentation)

Author(s):  
Michael R. Hamblin
2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 1524-1536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenia Reynoso ◽  
Ezequiel D. Quiroga ◽  
Maximiliano L. Agazzi ◽  
María B. Ballatore ◽  
Sonia G. Bertolotti ◽  
...  

Photoinactivation of microbial cells mediated by BODIPYs 3 and 4 was potentiated by the addition of potassium iodide.


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 320-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liyi Huang ◽  
Grzegorz Szewczyk ◽  
Tadeusz Sarna ◽  
Michael R. Hamblin

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 2427-2445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R Hamblin ◽  
Heidi Abrahamse

Tetracyclines are well established antibiotics but show phototoxicity as a side effect. Antimicrobial photodynamic inactivation uses nontoxic dyes combined with harmless light to destroy microbial cells by reactive oxygen species. Tetracyclines (demeclocycline and doxycycline) can act as light-activated antibiotics by binding to bacterial cells and killing them only upon illumination. The remaining tetracyclines can prevent bacterial regrowth after illumination has ceased. Antimicrobial photodynamic inactivation can be potentiated by potassium iodide. Azide quenched the formation of iodine, but not hydrogen peroxide. Demeclotetracycline (but not doxycycline) iodinated tyrosine after light activation in the presence of potassium iodide. Bacteria are killed by photoactivation of tetracyclines in the absence of oxygen. Since topical tetracyclines are already used clinically, blue light activation may increase the bactericidal effect.


2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (9) ◽  
pp. 5203-5212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Vecchio ◽  
Asheesh Gupta ◽  
Liyi Huang ◽  
Giacomo Landi ◽  
Pinar Avci ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTThe inexorable increase of antibiotic resistance occurring in different bacterial species is increasing the interest in developing new antimicrobial treatments that will be equally effective against multidrug-resistant strains and will not themselves induce resistance. One of these alternatives may be photodynamic inactivation (PDI), which uses a combination of nontoxic dyes, called photosensitizers (PS), excited by harmless visible light to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) by type 1 (radical) and type 2 (singlet oxygen) pathways. In this study, we asked whether it was possible to improve the efficacy of PDIin vitroandin vivoby addition of the inert salt potassium iodide (KI) to a commonly investigated PS, the phenothiazinium dye methylene blue (MB). By adding KI, we observed a consistent increase of red light-mediated bacterial killing of Gram-positive and Gram-negative speciesin vitroandin vivo. In vivo, we also observed less bacterial recurrence in wounds in the days posttreatment. The mechanism of action is probably due to formation of reactive iodine species that are produced quickly with a short lifetime. This finding may have a relevant clinical impact by reducing the risk of amputation and, in some cases, the risk of death, leading to improvement in the care of patients affected by localized infections.


1931 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 243-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Ogilvy Kermack ◽  
Robert Henry Slater ◽  
Walter Thomas Spragg

SummaryCertain derivatives of benzacridine and of 4-anilinoquinoline give a blue or red colouration with a solution of iodine in aqueous potassium iodide. In the case of the active anilinoquinoline compounds the colour is usually developed in presence of solutions containing iodine at a concentration of the order of N/10,000, whilst in the case of the benzacridine compounds the colour is still apparent at concentrations of N/100,000 or even less. The effect of variation of concentration of compound, iodine, and hydrogen ions has been investigated in certain instances. The action of certain inorganic salts has also been investigated, but in low concentrations these are without much effect. The methosulphates of the two active benzacridine bases also develop colours with iodine even with very low concentrations of the latter. It is suggested that these methosulphates form micellar, colloidal solutions. The chromogenic property appears to depend not on the nitrogen atom in these compounds but on the structure of the molecule as a whole. The compounds which have been investigated differ from most of those previously known to give colours with iodine, in that they are basic and form colloidal solutions in which the particles are positively charged.


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