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  • Master Thesis
    Investigation of Cytotoxic Properties of New Isoindol Derivatives in Lung and Cervical Cancers
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Almusawi, Yasir; Şanlı Mohamed, Gülşah; Şanlı Mohamed, Gülşah; 04.01. Department of Chemistry; 04. Faculty of Science; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    Cancer is one of the most common diseases in the world. Recently, there are many methods developed by researchers to treat this disease. One of these treatments is targeted for chemotherapy. It is preferred by researchers because it is less toxic and has fewer side effects than other cancer treatments. This study emphasizes the anticancer properties of the newly synthesized Isoindole derivatives. Thus, it was hoped to be a significant improvement based on new generation anticancer compounds with high efficacy and fewer side effects. The main objective of this study was to investigate the biological activity of seven newly synthesized Isoindole derivatives. The anticancer activity of these compounds was evaluated against HeLa (cervical carcinoma) and A549 (lung adenocarcinoma) cancer cell lines. This study is divided into three parts. Firstly, the cytotoxic activity of these compounds was determined by measuring the cell viability of each compound on HeLa and A549 cell lines. The main objective of this analysis is to measure the IC50 value of each compound and determine which compound is best to kill at least half of the cells. Secondly, the effects of programmed cell death and cell cycle were investigated for compounds with the best IC50 for each cell line by using Annexin V-FITC in flow cytometry. Finally, a scratch assay was performed to investigate the effect of these new Isoindole derivatives on cell migration.
  • Master Thesis
    Development of Mitochondria Targeted Gold Nanorods
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Uçak, Hande; Özçelik, Serdar; Özçelik, Serdar; 04.01. Department of Chemistry; 04. Faculty of Science; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    Lung cancer has the largest number of lives for the global pattern of cancer death. However, the percentage of the cancer treatment is too low. Gold nanoparticles have a widely range in terms of biomedical applications in diagnosis, imaging because of their unique optical properties, simple synthesis techniques, biocompatibility and suitable for easy surface change. Redox reactions in the mitochondria generates a potential called as mitochondria membrane potential. The aim of the study is to design mitochondria targeted gold nanorods and to observe how the designed gold nanorods effects the mitochondria membrane potential by targeting the mitochondria on A549 and BEAS-2B cell lines. Gold nanorods were utilized by seed growth mediated method and the surface bioconjugation was performed with triphenyl phosphonium cation as a mitochondria targeted molecule. Poly (sodium-p-styrene sulfonate) was used to prevent aggregation during the bioconjugation process. Gold nanorods which had 30 nm x 10 nm in length and diameter depending on SEM images had well-defined absorption bands 513 nm and 774 nm in wavelength. Mito-pot analysis with the fluorescent intensity ratio and colocalization analysis with light intensity for targeting gold nanorods to mitochondria showed that the accumulation on mitochondria for TPP-GNR was higher than PSSGNR. TPP-GNR was more toxic than PSS-GNR for both of cell lines by investigations of MTT viability test. TPP-GNR targeted to mitochondria and it affected fundamental cellular functions in mitochondria. To concluded that accumulation on mitochondria was accomplished for TPP-GNR and the decreasing of mitochondria membrane potential was observed on this study.
  • Master Thesis
    The Evaluation of Antiproliferative and Structural Effects of Statins on Non-Small Lung Cancer Cell Line A549
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Aksoy, Hatice Nurdan; Ceylan, Çağatay; Çağır, Ali; Ceylan, Çağatay; Çağır, Ali; 03.08. Department of Food Engineering; 04.01. Department of Chemistry; 03. Faculty of Engineering; 04. Faculty of Science; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    Statins are commonly prescribed anti-lipidemic and anti-cholesterol class of drugs. In addition to their major role, they have been found to have anti-cancer effects on in vitro, animal and clinical studies. The aim of this study was to investigate the structural effects of 6 different statins (rosuvastatin, pravastatin, simvastatin, lovastatin, fluvastatin and atorvastatin) on A549 cells by a spectroscopic method. MTT viability tests were carried out to detect the half maximal inhibitory concentrations (IC50) of each statin on A549 cells. The IC50 values were 50 μM for simvastatin, 150 μM for atorvastatin and pravastatin, and 170 μM for fluvastatin, 200 μM for rosuvastatin and lovastatin on A549 cells. The cells were treated with IC5, IC10 and IC50 values of each statins concentration and their whole cell extracts and lipid extracts were compared using FTIR spectroscopy which is one of the most useful techniques to evaluate the structural changes at the macromolecular functional group level. The results indicated that different statins have different prominent effects on A549 cells. All the statins studied caused observable conformational changes on DNA and proteome of A549 cells. Whereas atorvastatin led to lipidation, lovastatin and pravastatin indicated enormous lipid-lowering properties. Based on the cell lipid extracts it was found that hydrocarbon chain length, unsaturation index, phospholipid containing lipids and carbonyl index showed increasing except for rosuvastatin-treated A549 cells. This study indicated that statins caused significant structural and compositional changes on A549 cells based on a spectroscopic evaluation.