CHEBI:47868 - photosensitizing agent

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ChEBI Name photosensitizing agent
ChEBI ID CHEBI:47868
Definition A chemical compound that can be excited by light of a specific wavelength and subsequently transfer energy to a chosen reactant. This is commonly molecular oxygen within a cancer tissue, which is converted to (highly rective) singlet state oxygen. This rapidly reacts with any nearby biomolecules, ultimately killing the cancer cells.
Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868) is a drug (CHEBI:23888)
Incoming 5-aminolevulinic acid (CHEBI:17549) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
5-aminolevulinic acid hydrochloride (CHEBI:132969) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
9,10-diphenylanthracene (CHEBI:51676) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
meso-tetrakis(N-methyl-4-pyridyl)porphine tetrakis(p-toluenesulfonate) (CHEBI:78039) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
meso-tetrakis(N-methyl-4-pyridyl)porphine(4+) (CHEBI:37447) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
acetophenone (CHEBI:27632) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
benzophenone (CHEBI:41308) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
carprofen (CHEBI:364453) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
cercosporin (CHEBI:3556) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
cidofovir anhydrous (CHEBI:3696) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
cisplatin (CHEBI:27899) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
decarboxytiaprofenic acid (CHEBI:64706) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
diphenylcyclopropenone (CHEBI:53074) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
docetaxel anhydrous (CHEBI:4672) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
ethyl eosin (CHEBI:52072) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
gemcitabine (CHEBI:175901) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
hematoporphyrin (CHEBI:36162) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
lomefloxacin (CHEBI:116278) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
lomefloxacin hydrochloride (CHEBI:6518) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
lucanthone (CHEBI:51052) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
methoxsalen (CHEBI:18358) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
methyl 5-aminolevulinate (CHEBI:724125) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
methyl 5-aminolevulinate hydrochloride (CHEBI:60641) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
phenosafranine (CHEBI:33601) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
porfimer (CHEBI:60652) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
porfimer sodium (CHEBI:60773) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
protoporphyrin (CHEBI:15430) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
riboflavin (CHEBI:17015) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
temoporfin (CHEBI:9437) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
trioxsalen (CHEBI:28329) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
verteporfin (CHEBI:32293) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
vinorelbine (CHEBI:480999) has role photosensitizing agent (CHEBI:47868)
Synonym Source
photosensitising agent ChEBI
Last Modified
21 May 2020