Acta Chimica Sinica ›› 2001, Vol. 59 ›› Issue (11): 1858-1863. Previous Articles     Next Articles

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亚油酸与核黄素或FAD激发态之间电荷转移的直接证据

陆长元;刘官树;韩镇辉;唐红飞;姚思德;林念芸 ;陈君男;毛裕民   

  1. 中国科学院上海原子核研究所.上海(201800);中国科学院辐射化学开放实验室
  • 发布日期:2001-11-15

Direct evidence for electron transfer from linoleic acid to triplet strates of riboflavin and FAD: A laser photolysis study

Lu Changyuan;Liu Guanshu;Han Zhenhui;Tang Hongfei;Yao Side;Lin Nianyun;Chen Junnan;Mao Yumin   

  1. Inst Nucl Res., CAS.Shanghai(201800)
  • Published:2001-11-15

Subcellular localization of riboflavin (RF, Vitamin B2) in human normal liver L02 cells has been studied by means of fluorescence microscopy. The observed distribution of riboflavin inside the nucleus indicates for the first time that the photo-and radio- sensitized target is predominant inside the cells, While at higher concentrations, riboflavin can also be found in the cellular membrane, which demonstrates that cellular membrane is also a target site for riboflavin photo-and radio-sensitization. Here in this work, linoleic acid was used as a lipid model system in order to study the damaging potential of photoexcited flavin. By using time-resolved 308 nm laser flash photolysis with transient absorbance detection, the formation process of radical anion of riboflavin (RF^. -/RFH^.) or flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD^. -/FADH^.) was found to be synchronous with the decay of triplet sates of riboflavin (3^RF^*) or flavin adenine dinucleotide (3^FAD^*). Moreover, the decay of 3^RF^* or 3^FAD^* was pseudo-first-order in the concentration of linoleic acid. These observations provide for the first time direct evidence of electron transfer from linoleic acid to the triplet states of riboflavin and flavin adenine dinucleotide.

Key words: LINOLEIC ACID, HEPATOLAVIN (=VITAMIN B2), EXCITED STATE, CHARGE TRANSFER, NUCLEOTIDES

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