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Taghizadeh Shool M, Amiri Rudbari H, Cuevas-Vicario JV, Rodríguez-Rubio A, Stagno C, Iraci N, Efferth T, Omer EA, Schirmeister T, Blacque O, Moini N, Sheibani E, Micale N. Investigating the Cytotoxicity of Ru(II) Polypyridyl Complexes by Changing the Electronic Structure of Salicylaldehyde Ligands. Inorg Chem 2024; 63:1083-1101. [PMID: 38156413 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c03414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2023]
Abstract
A novel class of Ru(II)-based polypyridyl complexes with an auxiliary salicylaldehyde ligand [Ru(phen)2(X-Sal)]BF4 {X: H (1), 5-Cl (2), 5-Br (3), 3,5-Cl2 (4), 3,5-Br2 (5), 3-Br,5-Cl (6), 3,5-I2 (7), 5-NO2 (8), 5-Me (9), 4-Me (10), 4-OMe (11), and 4-DEA (12), has been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR, and 1H/13C NMR spectroscopy. The molecular structure of 4, 6, 9, 10, and 11 was determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis which revealed structural similarities. DFT and TD-DFT calculations showed that they also possess similar electronic structures. Absorption/emission spectra were recorded for 2, 3, 10, and 11. All Ru-complexes, unlike the pure ligands and the complex lacking the salicylaldehyde component, displayed outstanding antiproliferative activity in the screening test (10 μM) against CCRF-CEM leukemia cells underlining the crucial role of the presence of the auxiliary ligand for the biological activity. The two most active derivatives, namely 7 and 10, were selected for continuous assays showing IC50 values in the submicromolar and micromolar range against drug-sensitive CCRF-CEM and multidrug-resistant CEM/ADR5000 leukemia cells, respectively. These two compounds were investigated in silico for their potential binding to duplex DNA well-matched and mismatched base pairs, since they showed remarkable selectivity indexes (2.2 and 19.5 respectively) on PBMC cells.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Isfahan, 81746-73441 Isfahan, Iran
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- Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Burgos, Plaza Misael Bañuelos s/n, 09001 Burgos, Spain
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- Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Burgos, Plaza Misael Bañuelos s/n, 09001 Burgos, Spain
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- Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno D'Alcontres 31, I-98166 Messina, Italy
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- Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno D'Alcontres 31, I-98166 Messina, Italy
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, Staudinger Weg 5, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, Staudinger Weg 5, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Institute of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, Staudinger Weg 5, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty Chemistry, Alzahra University, Vanak, P.O. Box 1993891176, 1993891176 Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Isfahan, 81746-73441 Isfahan, Iran
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- Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno D'Alcontres 31, I-98166 Messina, Italy
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Liu X, Wang Z, Zhang X, Lv X, Sun Y, Dong R, Li G, Ren X, Ji Z, Yuan XA, Liu Z. Configurationally regulated half-sandwich iridium(III)-ferrocene heteronuclear metal complexes: Potential anticancer agents. J Inorg Biochem 2023; 249:112393. [PMID: 37806004 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2023.112393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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Half-sandwich iridium(III) (IrIII) complexes and ferrocenyl (Fc) derivatives are becoming the research hotspot in the field of anticancer because of their good bioactivity and unique anticancer mechanism different from platinum-based drugs. Then, a series of half-sandwich IrIII-Fc pyridine complexes have been prepared through the structural regulation in this study. The incorporation of half-sandwich IrIII complex with Fc unit successfully improves their anticancer activity, and the optimal performance (IrFc5) is almost 3-fold higher than that of cisplatin against A549 cells, meanwhile, which also shows better anti-proliferative activity against A549/DDP cells. Complexes can aggregate in the intracellular lysosome of A549 cells and induce lysosomal damage, disrupt the cell cycle, increase the level of intracellular reactive oxygen species, and eventually lead to cell apoptosis. Half-sandwich IrIII-Fc heteronuclear metal complexes possess a different anticancer mechanism from cisplatin, which can serve as a potential alternative to platinum-based drugs and show a good application prospect.
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- Xicheng Liu
- Key Laboratory of Life-Organic Analysis of Shandong Province, Institute of Anticancer Agents Development and Theranostic Application, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Life-Organic Analysis of Shandong Province, Institute of Anticancer Agents Development and Theranostic Application, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China
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- Key Laboratory of Life-Organic Analysis of Shandong Province, Institute of Anticancer Agents Development and Theranostic Application, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China
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- Key Laboratory of Life-Organic Analysis of Shandong Province, Institute of Anticancer Agents Development and Theranostic Application, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China
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- Key Laboratory of Life-Organic Analysis of Shandong Province, Institute of Anticancer Agents Development and Theranostic Application, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China
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- Key Laboratory of Life-Organic Analysis of Shandong Province, Institute of Anticancer Agents Development and Theranostic Application, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China
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- Key Laboratory of Life-Organic Analysis of Shandong Province, Institute of Anticancer Agents Development and Theranostic Application, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China
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- Key Laboratory of Life-Organic Analysis of Shandong Province, Institute of Anticancer Agents Development and Theranostic Application, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China
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- Key Laboratory of Life-Organic Analysis of Shandong Province, Institute of Anticancer Agents Development and Theranostic Application, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China
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- Key Laboratory of Life-Organic Analysis of Shandong Province, Institute of Anticancer Agents Development and Theranostic Application, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China
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- Key Laboratory of Life-Organic Analysis of Shandong Province, Institute of Anticancer Agents Development and Theranostic Application, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China.
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Wang L, Liu J, Chen F, Li G, Wang J, Chan DSH, Wong CY, Wang W, Leung CH. A Switch-On Affinity-Based Iridium(III) Conjugate Probe for Imaging Mitochondrial Glutathione S-Transferase in Breast Cancer Cells. Bioconjug Chem 2023; 34:1727-1737. [PMID: 37750807 DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.3c00267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/27/2023]
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Glutathione S-transferase is heterogeneously expressed in breast cancer cells and is therefore emerging as a potential diagnostic biomarker for studying the heterogeneity of breast cancers. However, available fluorescent probes for GSTs depend heavily on GSTs-catalyzed glutathione (GSH) nucleophilic substitution reactions, making them susceptible to interference by the high concentration of nucleophilic species in the cellular environment. Moreover, the functions of subcellular GSTs are generally overlooked due to the lack of suitable luminescence probes. Herein, we report a highly selective affinity-based luminescence probe 1 for GST in breast cancer cells through tethering a GST inhibitor, ethacrynic acid, to an iridium(III) complex. Compared to activity-based probes which require the use of GSH, this probe could image GST-pi in the mitochondria by directly adducting to GST-pi (or potentially GST-pi/GS) in living cells. Probe 1 possesses desirable photophysical properties including a lifetime of 911 ns, a Stokes shift of 343 nm, and high photostability. The "turn on" luminescence mode of the probe enables highly selective detection of the GST with a limit of detection of 1.01 μM, while its long emission lifetime allows sensitive detection in organic dye-spiked autofluorescence samples by a time-resolved mode. The probe was further applied to specifically and quantitatively visualize MDA-MB-231 cells via specific binding to mitochondrial GST, and could differentiate breast cell lines based on their expression levels of GST. To the best of our knowledge, this probe is the first affinity-based iridium(III) imaging probe for the subcellular GST. Our work provides a valuable tool for unmasking the diverse roles of a subcellular GST in living systems, as well as for studying the heterogeneity of breast cancers.
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- Ling Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macao, 999078, China
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- Institute of Medical Research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072, China
- Northwestern Polytechnical University Chongqing Technology Innovation Center, Chongqing 400000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macao, 999078, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macao, 999078, China
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- Institute of Medical Research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072, China
- Northwestern Polytechnical University Chongqing Technology Innovation Center, Chongqing 400000, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077, China
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- Institute of Medical Research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072, China
- Northwestern Polytechnical University Chongqing Technology Innovation Center, Chongqing 400000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macao, 999078, China
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macao, 999078, China
- Macau Centre for Research and Development in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macao, 999078, China
- MoE Frontiers Science Center for Precision Oncology, University of Macau, Macao, 999078, China
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Sumithaa C, Ganeshpandian M. Half-Sandwich Ruthenium Arene Complexes Bearing Clinically Approved Drugs as Ligands: The Importance of Metal-Drug Synergism in Metallodrug Design. Mol Pharm 2023; 20:1453-1479. [PMID: 36802711 DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.2c01027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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A novel strategy in metallodrug discovery today is incorporating clinically approved drugs into metal complexes as coordinating ligands. Using this strategy, various drugs have been repurposed to prepare organometallic complexes to overcome the resistance of drugs and to design promising alternatives to currently available metal-based drugs. Notably, the combination of organoruthenium moiety and clinical drug in a single molecule has been shown, in some instances, to enhance pharmacological activity and reduce toxicity in comparison to the parent drug. Thus, for the past two decades, there has been increasing interest in exploiting metal-drug synergism to develop multifunctional organoruthenium drug candidates. Herein, we summarized the recent reports of rationally designed half-sandwich Ru(arene) complexes containing different FDA-approved drugs. This review also focuses on the mode of coordination of drugs, ligand-exchange kinetics, mechanism of action, and structure-activity relationship of organoruthenated complexes containing drugs. We hope this discussion may serve to shed light on future developments in ruthenium-based metallopharmaceuticals.
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- Chezhiyan Sumithaa
- Department of Chemistry, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur 603 203, India
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- Department of Chemistry, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur 603 203, India
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Zhao J, Gao Y, He W, Wang W, Hu W, Sun Y. Synthesis, characterization and biological evaluation of two cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes containing a glutathione S-transferase inhibitor. J Inorg Biochem 2023; 238:112050. [PMID: 36332411 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2022.112050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2022] [Revised: 10/12/2022] [Accepted: 10/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The cyclometalated iridium(III) compounds have been intensively studied for health-related applications due to their outstanding luminescent properties and multiple anticancer modes of action. Herein, two iridium(III) compounds Ir-1 and Ir-3 containing glutathione S-transferase inhibitor (GSTi) were developed and studied together with two unfunctionalized compounds Ir-2 and Ir-4 as a comparison. Biological study indicated that GSTi-bearing complexes Ir-1 and Ir-3 exert a synergistic effect on the inhibition of cancer cells. The photophysical properties of Ir-1 ∼ Ir-4 were investigated by UV/vis absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy and rationalized with TD-DFT calculations. As expected, GSTi-bearing complexes Ir-1 and Ir-3 exhibited considerable cytotoxicity against both A549 and cisplatin-resistant A549/cis cancer cells, much higher than the unfunctionalized iridium compounds Ir-2 and Ir-4. Further study indicated that Ir-1 and Ir-3 mainly localize in the mitochondria of tumor cells, and exert their cytotoxicity via generating ROS and inhibiting GST activity. The flow cytometry investigations demonstrated that Ir-1 and Ir-3 can arrest the cell cycle in S phase and induce the cell death through apoptosis process. Overall, the complexation of GST inhibitors with cyclometalated iridium(III) agents provides an effective way for potentiating the cytotoxicity of iridium(III) anticancer agents and resensitizing the efficacy against cisplatin resistant cancer cells.
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- Jian Zhao
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China; Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Regional Resource Exploitation and Medicinal Research, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian 223003, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- School of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Regional Resource Exploitation and Medicinal Research, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian 223003, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China.
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Swaminathan S, Haribabu J, Balakrishnan N, Vasanthakumar P, Karvembu R. Piano stool Ru(II)-arene complexes having three monodentate legs: A comprehensive review on their development as anticancer therapeutics over the past decade. Coord Chem Rev 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2021.214403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Gobbo A, Pereira SAP, Biancalana L, Zacchini S, Saraiva MLMFS, Dyson PJ, Marchetti F. Anticancer ruthenium( ii) tris(pyrazolyl)methane complexes with bioactive co-ligands. Dalton Trans 2022; 51:17050-17063. [DOI: 10.1039/d2dt03009h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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New anticancer RuII-tpm complexes are presented, including a synthetic strategy to tether bioactive molecules to the metallic scaffold.
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- Alberto Gobbo
- University of Pisa, Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, Via G. Moruzzi 13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
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- LAQV, REQUIMTE, Laboratório de Química Aplicada, Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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- University of Pisa, Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, Via G. Moruzzi 13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
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- University of Bologna, Department of Industrial Chemistry “Toso Montanari”, Viale Risorgimento 4, I-40136 Bologna, Italy
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- LAQV, REQUIMTE, Laboratório de Química Aplicada, Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH 1015, Switzerland
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- University of Pisa, Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, Via G. Moruzzi 13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
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Han T, Wu Y, Han W, Yan K, Zhao J, Sun Y. Antitumor Effect of Organometallic Half-Sandwich Ru(II)-Arene Complexes Bearing a Glutathione S-Transferase Inhibitor. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:13051-13061. [PMID: 34369147 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The facile modification of the ligands in organometallic Ru(II)-arene complexes offers more opportunities to optimize their pharmacological profiles. Herein, three Ru(II)-arene complexes containing a glutathione S-transferase (GST) inhibitor (NBDHEX) in chelate ligand have been designed and synthesized in this study. In vitro results indicated that the ligation with NBDHEX significantly increased the activities and selectivities of the organometallic Ru(II)-arene complexes against tumor cells, especially complex 3, which was the most active compound among the tested compounds. DFT calculations and hydrolysis results demonstrated that complex 3 with more alkyl groups in the arene ligand has increased electron density at the Ru(II) center as compared with complexes 1 and 2, thus resulting in the improved hydrolysis rate, which may be responsible for its higher anticancer activity. Further studies showed that complexes 1-3 can cause the loss of the mitochondrial membrane potential and upregulate the expression of Bcl-2 and Bax in A549 cells, suggesting that complexes 1-3-induced cell death may be mediated via the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway. Thus, these findings suggested that simultaneous modification of the chelate ligands and arene rings in the organometallic Ru(II)-arene complexes is an effective way to improve their pharmacological properties.
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- Tianyu Han
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- School of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- School of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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Valente A, Podolski-Renić A, Poetsch I, Filipović N, López Ó, Turel I, Heffeter P. Metal- and metalloid-based compounds to target and reverse cancer multidrug resistance. Drug Resist Updat 2021; 58:100778. [PMID: 34403910 DOI: 10.1016/j.drup.2021.100778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2021] [Revised: 06/18/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Drug resistance remains the major cause of cancer treatment failure especially at the late stage of the disease. However, based on their versatile chemistry, metal and metalloid compounds offer the possibility to design fine-tuned drugs to circumvent and even specifically target drug-resistant cancer cells. Based on the paramount importance of platinum drugs in the clinics, two main areas of drug resistance reversal strategies exist: overcoming resistance to platinum drugs as well as multidrug resistance based on ABC efflux pumps. The current review provides an overview of both aspects of drug design and discusses the open questions in the field. The areas of drug resistance covered in this article involve: 1) Altered expression of proteins involved in metal uptake, efflux or intracellular distribution, 2) Enhanced drug efflux via ABC transporters, 3) Altered metabolism in drug-resistant cancer cells, 4) Altered thiol or redox homeostasis, 5) Altered DNA damage recognition and enhanced DNA damage repair, 6) Impaired induction of apoptosis and 7) Altered interaction with the immune system. This review represents the first collection of metal (including platinum, ruthenium, iridium, gold, and copper) and metalloid drugs (e.g. arsenic and selenium) which demonstrated drug resistance reversal activity. A special focus is on compounds characterized by collateral sensitivity of ABC transporter-overexpressing cancer cells. Through this approach, we wish to draw the attention to open research questions in the field. Future investigations are warranted to obtain more insights into the mechanisms of action of the most potent compounds which target specific modalities of drug resistance.
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- Andreia Valente
- Centro de Química Estrutural and Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Department of Neurobiology, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković" - National Institute of Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Serbia
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- Institute of Cancer Research and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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- Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Institute of Cancer Research and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
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Steel TR, Walsh F, Wieczorek-Błauż A, Hanif M, Hartinger CG. Monodentately-coordinated bioactive moieties in multimodal half-sandwich organoruthenium anticancer agents. Coord Chem Rev 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2021.213890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Biancalana L, Kostrhunova H, Batchelor LK, Hadiji M, Degano I, Pampaloni G, Zacchini S, Dyson PJ, Brabec V, Marchetti F. Hetero-Bis-Conjugation of Bioactive Molecules to Half-Sandwich Ruthenium(II) and Iridium(III) Complexes Provides Synergic Effects in Cancer Cell Cytotoxicity. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:9529-9541. [PMID: 34156246 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Four bipyridine-type ligands variably derivatized with two bioactive groups (taken from ethacrynic acid, flurbiprofen, biotin, and benzylpenicillin) were prepared via sequential esterification steps from commercial 2,2'-bipyridine-4,4'-dicarboxylic acid and subsequently coordinated to ruthenium(II) p-cymene and iridium(III) pentamethylcyclopentadienyl scaffolds. The resulting complexes were isolated as nitrate salts in high yields and fully characterized by analytical and spectroscopic methods. NMR and MS studies in aqueous solution and in cell culture medium highlighted a substantial stability of ligand coordination and a slow release of the bioactive fragments in the latter case. The complexes were assessed for their antiproliferative activity on four cancer cell lines, showing cytotoxicity to the low micromolar level (equipotent with cisplatin). Additional biological experiments revealed a multimodal mechanism of action of the investigated compounds, involving DNA metalation and enzyme inhibition. Synergic effects provided by specific combinations of metal and bioactive fragments were identified, pointing toward an optimal ethacrynic acid/flurbiprofen combination for both Ru(II) and Ir(III) complexes.
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- Lorenzo Biancalana
- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi 13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics, Kralovopolska 135, CZ-61265 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi 13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi 13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale "Toso Montanari", Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 4, I-40136 Bologna, Italy
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- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics, Kralovopolska 135, CZ-61265 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi 13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
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Shutkov IA, Antonets AA, Tyurin VY, Milaeva ER, Nazarov AA. Ruthenium(III) Complexes of NAMI-A Type with Ligands Based on Lonidamine and Bexarotene as Antiproliferative Agents. RUSS J INORG CHEM+ 2021. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036023621030177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Impact of the Metal Center and Leaving Group on the Anticancer Activity of Organometallic Complexes of Pyridine-2-carbothioamide. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26040833. [PMID: 33562622 PMCID: PMC7914729 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26040833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2020] [Revised: 01/19/2021] [Accepted: 01/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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RuII(cym)Cl (cym = η6-p-cymene) complexes of pyridinecarbothioamides have shown potential for development as orally active anticancer metallodrugs, underlined by their high selectivity towards plectin as the molecular target. In order to investigate the impact of the metal center on the anticancer activity and their physicochemical properties, the Os(cym), Rh- and Ir(Cp*) (Cp* = pentamethylcyclopentadienyl) analogues of the most promising and orally active compound plecstatin 2 were prepared and characterized by spectroscopic techniques and X-ray diffraction analysis. Dissolution in aqueous medium results in quick ligand exchange reactions; however, over time no further changes in the 1H NMR spectra were observed. The Rh- and Ir(Cp*) complexes were investigated for their reactions with amino acids, and while they reacted with Cys, no reaction with His was observed. Studies on the in vitro anticancer activity identified the Ru derivatives as the most potent, independent of their halido leaving group, while the Rh derivative was more active than the Ir analogue. This demonstrates that the metal center has a significant impact on the anticancer activity of the compound class.
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Guimarães IDL, Marszaukowski F, Ribeiro R, de Lazaro SR, de Oliveira KM, Batista AA, Castellen P, Wrobel E, Garcia JR, Boeré RT, Wohnrath K. Synthesis and characterization of η6-p-cymene ruthenium(II) complexes containing alkyl- and methoxy-substituted triarylphosphines. J Organomet Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2020.121599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Synthesis and anti-cancer activity of bis-amino-phosphine ligand and its ruthenium(II) complexes. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2020; 30:127492. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2020.127492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2020] [Revised: 08/06/2020] [Accepted: 08/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Ribeiro GH, Guedes APM, de Oliveira TD, de Correia CRSTB, Colina-Vegas L, Lima MA, Nóbrega JA, Cominetti MR, Rocha FV, Ferreira AG, Castellano EE, Teixeira FR, Batista AA. Ruthenium(II) Phosphine/Mercapto Complexes: Their in Vitro Cytotoxicity Evaluation and Actions as Inhibitors of Topoisomerase and Proteasome Acting as Possible Triggers of Cell Death Induction. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:15004-15018. [PMID: 32997499 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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In this paper, a series of new ruthenium complexes of the general formula [Ru(NS)(dpphpy)(dppb)]PF6 (Ru1-Ru3), where dpphpy = diphenyl-2-pyridylphosphine, NS ligands = 2-thiazoline-2-thiol (tzdt, Ru1), 2-mercaptopyrimidine (pySm, Ru2), and 4,6-diamino-2-mercaptopyrimidine (damp, Ru3), and dppb = 1,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)butane, were synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, spectroscopic techniques (IR, UV/visible, and 1D and 2D NMR), and X-ray diffraction. In the characterization, the correlation between the phosphorus atoms and their respective aromatic hydrogen atoms of the compounds in the assignment stands outs, by 1H-31P HMBC experiments. The compounds show anticancer activities against A549 (lung) and MDA-MB-231 (breast) cancer cell lines, higher than the clinical drug cisplatin. All of the complexes are more cytotoxic against the cancer cell lines than against the MRC-5 (lung) and MCF-10A (breast) nontumorigenic human cell lines. For A549 tumor cells, cell cycle analysis upon treatment with Ru2 showed that it inhibits the mitotic phase because arrest was observed in the Sub-G1 phase. Additionally, the compound induces cell death by an apoptotic pathway in a dose-dependent manner, according to annexin V-PE assay. The multitargeted character of the compounds was investigated, and the biomolecules were DNA, topoisomerase IB, and proteasome, as well as the fundamental biomolecule in the pharmacokinetics of drugs, human serum albumin. The experimental results indicate that the complexes do not target DNA in the cells. At low concentrations, the compounds showed the ability to partially inhibit the catalytic activity of topoisomerase IB in the process of relaxation of the DNA plasmid. Among the complexes assayed in cultured cells, complex Ru3 was able to diminish the proteasomal chymotrypsin-like activity to a greater extent.
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- Gabriel H Ribeiro
- Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, CEP 13565-905 São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, CEP 13565-905 São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, CEP 13565-905 São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, CEP 13565-905 São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, CEP 13565-905 São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.,Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, CP 15003, 91501-970 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, CEP 13565-905 São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, CEP 13565-905 São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Gerontologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, CEP 13565-905 São Carlos, São Paulo Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, CEP 13565-905 São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, CEP 13565-905 São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, CEP 13560-970 São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, CEP 13565-905 São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, CEP 13565-905 São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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Madanhire T, Davids H, Pereira MC, Hosten EC, Abrahams A. Mixed-ligand complexes of lanthanides derived from an α-hydroxycarboxylic acid (benzilic acid) and 1,10-phenanthroline: Physicochemical properties and anticancer activity. Polyhedron 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2020.114583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Nabiyeva T, Marschner C, Blom B. Synthesis, structure and anti-cancer activity of osmium complexes bearing π-bound arene substituents and phosphane Co-Ligands: A review. Eur J Med Chem 2020; 201:112483. [PMID: 32592914 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2020.112483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2020] [Revised: 05/17/2020] [Accepted: 05/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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While many examples of osmium complexes, as anti-cancer agents, have been reported and some reviews have been devoted to this topic, a particularly interesting and synthetically accessible sub-class of these compounds namely those bearing a π- bound arene and phosphane co-ligand have escaped review. These complexes have made a surprisingly late entry in the literature (2005) in terms of anti-cancer investigations. This is somewhat surprising considering the plethora of analogous complexes that have been reported for the lighter analogue, ruthenium. Herein we review all complexes, neutral and ionic, bearing the "(ƞ6-arene)Os(PR3)" moiety focusing on their synthesis, reactivity, structural features (by X-ray diffraction analysis) as well as anti-cancer biological activity. An attempt is made throughout the article to contrast these to each other and to analogous Ru systems, and a full summary of all existing in vitro biological data is presented.
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- Tomiris Nabiyeva
- Maastricht Science Programme, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Maastricht University, Kapoenstraat 2, PO Box 616, 6200, MD, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Technische Universität Graz, Stremayrgasse 9, A-8010, Graz, Austria
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- Maastricht Science Programme, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Maastricht University, Kapoenstraat 2, PO Box 616, 6200, MD, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
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Biancalana L, Gruchała M, Batchelor LK, Błauż A, Monti A, Pampaloni G, Rychlik B, Dyson PJ, Marchetti F. Conjugating Biotin to Ruthenium(II) Arene Units via Phosphine Ligand Functionalization. Eur J Inorg Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201900922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Lorenzo Biancalana
- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale Università di Pisa Via G. Moruzzi 13 56124 Pisa Italy
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- Cytometry Lab Department of Molecular Biophysics University of Łódź ul. Pomorska 141/143 90‐236 Łódź Poland
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- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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- Cytometry Lab Department of Molecular Biophysics University of Łódź ul. Pomorska 141/143 90‐236 Łódź Poland
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale Università di Pisa Via G. Moruzzi 13 56124 Pisa Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale Università di Pisa Via G. Moruzzi 13 56124 Pisa Italy
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- Cytometry Lab Department of Molecular Biophysics University of Łódź ul. Pomorska 141/143 90‐236 Łódź Poland
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- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale Università di Pisa Via G. Moruzzi 13 56124 Pisa Italy
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Štarha P, Trávníček Z. Azaindoles: Suitable ligands of cytotoxic transition metal complexes. J Inorg Biochem 2019; 197:110695. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2019.110695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2019] [Revised: 04/10/2019] [Accepted: 04/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Design of organoruthenium complexes for nanoparticle functionalization. J Organomet Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2019.03.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Self-assembled ruthenium (II) metallacycles and metallacages with imidazole-based ligands and their in vitro anticancer activity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:4090-4098. [PMID: 30765514 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1818677116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Six tetranuclear rectangular metallacycles were synthesized via the [2+2] coordination-driven self-assembly of imidazole-based ditopic donor 1,4-bis(imidazole-1-yl)benzene and 1,3-bis(imidazol-1-yl)benzene, with dinuclear half-sandwich p-cymene ruthenium(II) acceptors [Ru2(µ-η4-oxalato)(η6-p-cymene)2](SO3CF3)2, [Ru2(µ-η4-2,5-dioxido-1,4-benzoquinonato)(η6-p-cymene)2](SO3CF3)2 and [Ru2(µ-η4-5,8-dioxido-1,4-naphtoquinonato)(η6-p-cymene)2](SO3CF3)2, respectively. Likewise, three hexanuclear trigonal prismatic metallacages were prepared via the [2+3] self-assembly of tritopic donor of 1,3,5-tri(1H-imidazol-1-yl)benzene with these ruthenium(II) acceptors respectively. Self-selection of the single symmetrical and stable metallacycle and cage was observed although there is the possibility of forming different conformational isomeric products due to different binding modes of these imidazole-based donors. The self-assembled macrocycles and cage containing the 5,8-dioxido-1,4-naphtoquinonato (donq) spacer exhibited good anticancer activity on all tested cancer cell lines (HCT-116, MDA-MB-231, MCF-7, HeLa, A549, and HepG-2), and showed decreased cytotoxicities in HBE and THLE-2 normal cells. The effect of Ru and imidazole moiety of these assemblies on the anticancer activity was discussed. The study of binding ability of these donq-based Ru assemblies with ctDNA indicated that the complex 9 with 180° linear 1 ligand has the highest bonding constant K b to ctDNA.
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Kenny RG, Marmion CJ. Toward Multi-Targeted Platinum and Ruthenium Drugs-A New Paradigm in Cancer Drug Treatment Regimens? Chem Rev 2019; 119:1058-1137. [PMID: 30640441 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 398] [Impact Index Per Article: 79.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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While medicinal inorganic chemistry has been practised for over 5000 years, it was not until the late 1800s when Alfred Werner published his ground-breaking research on coordination chemistry that we began to truly understand the nature of the coordination bond and the structures and stereochemistries of metal complexes. We can now readily manipulate and fine-tune their properties. This had led to a multitude of complexes with wide-ranging biomedical applications. This review will focus on the use and potential of metal complexes as important therapeutic agents for the treatment of cancer. With major advances in technologies and a deeper understanding of the human genome, we are now in a strong position to more fully understand carcinogenesis at a molecular level. We can now also rationally design and develop drug molecules that can either selectively enhance or disrupt key biological processes and, in doing so, optimize their therapeutic potential. This has heralded a new era in drug design in which we are moving from a single- toward a multitargeted approach. This approach lies at the very heart of medicinal inorganic chemistry. In this review, we have endeavored to showcase how a "multitargeted" approach to drug design has led to new families of metallodrugs which may not only reduce systemic toxicities associated with modern day chemotherapeutics but also address resistance issues that are plaguing many chemotherapeutic regimens. We have focused our attention on metallodrugs incorporating platinum and ruthenium ions given that complexes containing these metal ions are already in clinical use or have advanced to clinical trials as anticancer agents. The "multitargeted" complexes described herein not only target DNA but also contain either vectors to enable them to target cancer cells selectively and/or moieties that target enzymes, peptides, and intracellular proteins. Multitargeted complexes which have been designed to target the mitochondria or complexes inspired by natural product activity are also described. A summary of advances in this field over the past decade or so will be provided.
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- Reece G Kenny
- Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry , Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland , 123 St. Stephen's Green , Dublin 2 , Ireland
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- Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry , Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland , 123 St. Stephen's Green , Dublin 2 , Ireland
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Gupta G, Cherukommu S, Srinivas G, Lee SW, Mun SH, Jung J, Nagesh N, Lee CY. BODIPY-based Ru(II) and Ir(III) organometallic complexes of avobenzone, a sunscreen material: Potent anticancer agents. J Inorg Biochem 2018; 189:17-29. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2018.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2018] [Revised: 08/08/2018] [Accepted: 08/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Lenis-Rojas OA, Robalo MP, Tomaz AI, Carvalho A, Fernandes AR, Marques F, Folgueira M, Yáñez J, Vázquez-García D, López Torres M, Fernández A, Fernández JJ. RuII(p-cymene) Compounds as Effective and Selective Anticancer Candidates with No Toxicity in Vivo. Inorg Chem 2018; 57:13150-13166. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Oscar A. Lenis-Rojas
- Departamento de Química & Centro de Investigaciones Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Universidade da Coruña, 15008 A Coruña, Spain
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- Área Departamental de Engenharia Química, ISEL-Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Rua Conselheiro Emídio Navarro, 1, 1959-007 Lisboa, Portugal
- Centro de Química Estrutural, Complexo 1, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
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- Centro de Química Estrutural, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
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- UCIBIO, Departamento Ciências da Vida, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- UCIBIO, Departamento Ciências da Vida, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- Centro de Ciências e Tecnologías Nucleares (C2TN), Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, E.N. 10 (km 139.7), 2695-066 Bobadela LRS, Portugal
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- Neurover Group, Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA) and Department of Biology, Universidade da Coruña, 15008 A Coruña, Spain
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1 6BT, U.K
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- Neurover Group, Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA) and Department of Biology, Universidade da Coruña, 15008 A Coruña, Spain
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- Departamento de Química & Centro de Investigaciones Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Universidade da Coruña, 15008 A Coruña, Spain
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- Departamento de Química & Centro de Investigaciones Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Universidade da Coruña, 15008 A Coruña, Spain
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- Departamento de Química & Centro de Investigaciones Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Universidade da Coruña, 15008 A Coruña, Spain
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- Departamento de Química & Centro de Investigaciones Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Universidade da Coruña, 15008 A Coruña, Spain
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Movassaghi S, Leung E, Hanif M, Lee BYT, Holtkamp HU, Tu JKY, Söhnel T, Jamieson SMF, Hartinger CG. A Bioactive l-Phenylalanine-Derived Arene in Multitargeted Organoruthenium Compounds: Impact on the Antiproliferative Activity and Mode of Action. Inorg Chem 2018; 57:8521-8529. [PMID: 29949354 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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RuII(η6-arene) compounds carrying bioactive flavonol ligands have shown promising anticancer activity against tumor cells via a multitargeting mode of action, i.e., through interaction with DNA and inhibition of topoisomerase IIα. By introducing a novel arene ligand based on the amino acid l-phenylalanine (Phe), we aimed to alter the pharmacological properties of the complexes. We report here a series of novel RuII(η6-arene)Cl complexes with different substituents on the phenyl ring of the flavonol which should maintain the multitargeting capability of the parent η6- p-cymene (cym) complexes. Studies with selected examples revealed stability in aqueous solution after quickly forming aqua complexes but rapid decomposition in pure DMSO. The reactions with protein and DNA models proceeded quickly and resulted in cleavage of the flavonol or adduct formation, respectively. The compounds were found to be cytotoxic with significant antiproliferative activity in cancer cells with IC50 values in the low μM range, while not following the same trends as observed for the cym analogues. Notably, the cellular accumulation of the new derivatives was significantly higher than for their respective cym complexes, and they induced DNA damage in a manner similar to that of cisplatin but to a lesser extent.
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- Sanam Movassaghi
- School of Chemical Sciences , University of Auckland , Private Bag 92019 , Auckland 1142 , New Zealand
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- Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre , University of Auckland , Private Bag 92019 , Auckland 1142 , New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences , University of Auckland , Private Bag 92019 , Auckland 1142 , New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences , University of Auckland , Private Bag 92019 , Auckland 1142 , New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences , University of Auckland , Private Bag 92019 , Auckland 1142 , New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences , University of Auckland , Private Bag 92019 , Auckland 1142 , New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences , University of Auckland , Private Bag 92019 , Auckland 1142 , New Zealand
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- Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre , University of Auckland , Private Bag 92019 , Auckland 1142 , New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences , University of Auckland , Private Bag 92019 , Auckland 1142 , New Zealand
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Lee KGZ, Babak MV, Weiss A, Dyson PJ, Nowak-Sliwinska P, Montagner D, Ang WH. Development of an Efficient Dual-Action GST-Inhibiting Anticancer Platinum(IV) Prodrug. ChemMedChem 2018; 13:1210-1217. [PMID: 29637702 DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.201800105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2018] [Revised: 03/27/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The cytotoxicity of cisplatin (cDDP) is enhanced when co-administered with ethacrynic acid (EA), a glutathione S-transferase (GST) inhibitor. A PtIV -EA conjugate containing a cDDP core and two axial ethacrynate ligands (compound 1) was shown to be an excellent inhibitor of GST, but did not readily release a PtII species to exert a synergistic cytotoxic effect. In this study, a redesigned PtIV construct composed of a cDDP core with one axial ethacrynate ligand and one axial hydroxido ligand (compound 2) was prepared and shown to overcome the limitations of compound 1. The EA ligand in 2 is readily released in vitro together with a cytotoxic PtII species derived from cisplatin, working together to inhibit cell proliferation in cDDP-resistant human ovarian cancer cells. The in vitro activity translates well in vivo with 2, showing effective (∼80 %) inhibition of tumor growth in a human ovarian carcinoma A2780 tumor model, while showing considerably lower toxicity than cisplatin, thus validating the new design strategy.
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- Keefe Guang Zhi Lee
- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore, 117543, Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore, 117543, Singapore
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- School of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Geneva (UNIGE), 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore, 117543, Singapore
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Biancalana L, Ciancaleoni G, Zacchini S, Monti A, Marchetti F, Pampaloni G. Solvent-Dependent Hemilability of (2-Diphenylphosphino)Phenol in a Ru(II) para-Cymene System. Organometallics 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.8b00071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Lorenzo Biancalana
- Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Via Moruzzi 13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
- CIRCC, via Celso Ulpiani 27, I-70126 Bari, Italy
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- Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Via Moruzzi 13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
- CIRCC, via Celso Ulpiani 27, I-70126 Bari, Italy
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- CIRCC, via Celso Ulpiani 27, I-70126 Bari, Italy
- Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale “Toso Montanari”, Viale Risorgimento 4, I-40136 Bologna, Italy
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- Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Via Moruzzi 13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Via Moruzzi 13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
- CIRCC, via Celso Ulpiani 27, I-70126 Bari, Italy
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- Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Via Moruzzi 13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
- CIRCC, via Celso Ulpiani 27, I-70126 Bari, Italy
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Biancalana L, Batchelor LK, Ciancaleoni G, Zacchini S, Pampaloni G, Dyson PJ, Marchetti F. Versatile coordination of acetazolamide to ruthenium(ii) p-cymene complexes and preliminary cytotoxicity studies. Dalton Trans 2018; 47:9367-9384. [DOI: 10.1039/c8dt01555d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The bioactive molecule acetazolamide was incorporated in Ru(ii)-p-cymene complexes with different coordination modes. Two of the resulting complexes were non cytotoxic towards A2780, A2780cisR and HEK-293 cell lines.
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- Lorenzo Biancalana
- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
- Università di Pisa
- I-56124 Pisa
- Italy
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- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- CH-1015 Lausanne
- Switzerland
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
- Università di Pisa
- I-56124 Pisa
- Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale “Toso Montanari”
- Università di Bologna
- I-40136 Bologna
- Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
- Università di Pisa
- I-56124 Pisa
- Italy
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- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- CH-1015 Lausanne
- Switzerland
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
- Università di Pisa
- I-56124 Pisa
- Italy
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Movassaghi S, Hanif M, Holtkamp HU, Söhnel T, Jamieson SMF, Hartinger CG. Making organoruthenium complexes of 8-hydroxyquinolines more hydrophilic: impact of a novel l-phenylalanine-derived arene ligand on the biological activity. Dalton Trans 2018; 47:2192-2201. [DOI: 10.1039/c7dt04451h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Introduction of an l-phenylalanine-derived arene ligand leads to more hydrophilic organoruthenium(8-oxyquinolinato) anticancer agents.
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- Sanam Movassaghi
- School of Chemical Sciences
- University of Auckland
- Auckland 1142
- New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences
- University of Auckland
- Auckland 1142
- New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences
- University of Auckland
- Auckland 1142
- New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences
- University of Auckland
- Auckland 1142
- New Zealand
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Higuera-Padilla AR, Batista AA, Colina-Vegas L, Villarreal W, Colnago LA. Synthesis of the [(η6-p-cymene)Ru(dppb)Cl]PF6 complex and catalytic activity in the transfer hydrogenation of ketones. J COORD CHEM 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/00958972.2017.1390226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Laboratório de Estrutura e Reatividade de Compostos Inorgânicos, UFSCar, São Carlos, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Estrutura e Reatividade de Compostos Inorgânicos, UFSCar, São Carlos, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Estrutura e Reatividade de Compostos Inorgânicos, UFSCar, São Carlos, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ressonância Magnética Nuclear, Embrapa Instrumentação, São Carlos, Brazil
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Păunescu E, Soudani M, Clavel CM, Dyson PJ. Varying the metal to ethacrynic acid ratio in ruthenium(ii)/osmium(ii)-p-cymene conjugates. J Inorg Biochem 2017; 175:198-207. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2017.07.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2017] [Revised: 07/24/2017] [Accepted: 07/26/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Biancalana L, Pampaloni G, Zacchini S, Marchetti F. One pot conversion of acetyl chloride to dehydroacetic acid and its coordination in a ruthenium(II) arene complex. J Organomet Chem 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2017.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Dou YH, Xu SD, Chen Y, Wu XH. Synthesis, characterization, and anticancer activity of dithiocarbamate ruthenium(II) complexes. PHOSPHORUS SULFUR 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/10426507.2017.1359594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Ye-Hong Dou
- Chemistry and Pharmaceutics Department, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, P. R. China
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- Chemistry and Pharmaceutics Department, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, P. R. China
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- Chemistry and Pharmaceutics Department, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, P. R. China
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- Chemistry and Pharmaceutics Department, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, P. R. China
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Păunescu E, Soudani M, Martin P, Scopelliti R, Lo Bello M, Dyson PJ. Organometallic Glutathione S-Transferase Inhibitors. Organometallics 2017. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Emilia Păunescu
- Institut
des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institut
des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department
of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Via
della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- Institut
des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department
of Biology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Via
della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- Institut
des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Biancalana L, Batchelor LK, De Palo A, Zacchini S, Pampaloni G, Dyson PJ, Marchetti F. A general strategy to add diversity to ruthenium arene complexes with bioactive organic compounds via a coordinated (4-hydroxyphenyl)diphenylphosphine ligand. Dalton Trans 2017. [PMID: 28627572 DOI: 10.1039/c7dt02062g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Esterification of (4-hydroxyphenyl)diphenylphosphine, coordinated to the [Ru(η6-p-cymene)Cl2] fragment, allows a series of bioactive carboxylic acids to be introduced directly into the organometallic molecule. Evaluation of the compounds on human ovarian cancer cells reveals synergistic enhancements in their antiproliferative activity relative to their bioactive organic and organometallic precursors.
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- Lorenzo Biancalana
- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Moruzzi 13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy.
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- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Moruzzi 13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale "Toso Montanari", Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 4, I-40136 Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Moruzzi 13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy.
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- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Moruzzi 13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy.
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Nosova YN, Karlov DS, Pisarev SA, Shutkov IA, Palyulin VA, Baquié M, Milaeva ER, Dyson PJ, Nazarov AA. New highly cytotoxic organic and organometallic bexarotene derivatives. J Organomet Chem 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2017.03.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Ashraf A, Hanif M, Kubanik M, Söhnel T, Jamieson SM, Bhattacharyya A, Hartinger CG. Aspirin-inspired organometallic compounds: Structural characterization and cytotoxicity. J Organomet Chem 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2017.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Lozano HJ, Busto N, Espino G, Carbayo A, Leal JM, Platts JA, García B. Interstrand DNA covalent binding of two dinuclear Ru(ii) complexes. Influence of the extra ring of the bridging ligand on the DNA interaction and cytotoxic activity. Dalton Trans 2017; 46:3611-3622. [DOI: 10.1039/c6dt04888a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The quinones naphthazarin and quinizarin intercalate into DNA whereas their p-cymene di-ruthenium(ii) complexes bind covalently via interstrand crosslinking.
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- Chemistry Deparment
- University of Burgos
- 09001 Burgos
- Spain
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- Chemistry Deparment
- University of Burgos
- 09001 Burgos
- Spain
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- Chemistry Deparment
- University of Burgos
- 09001 Burgos
- Spain
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- Chemistry Deparment
- University of Burgos
- 09001 Burgos
- Spain
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Broomfield LM, Alonso-Moreno C, Martin E, Shafir A, Posadas I, Ceña V, Castro-Osma JA. Aminophosphine ligands as a privileged platform for development of antitumoral ruthenium(ii) arene complexes. Dalton Trans 2017; 46:16113-16125. [DOI: 10.1039/c7dt03369a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The potential utility of aminophosphine ligands in both high-throughput testing and rational design of new anticancer metallodrugs.
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- L. M. Broomfield
- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ)
- Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology
- Tarragona
- Spain
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- Departamento de Química Inorgánica
- Orgánica y Bioquímica
- Facultad de Farmacia
- Universidad de Castilla-La Man-cha
- 02071-Albacete
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ)
- Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology
- Tarragona
- Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ)
- Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology
- Tarragona
- Spain
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- CIBERNED
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III
- Madrid
- Spain
- Unidad Asociada Neurodeath CSIC-UCLM
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- CIBERNED
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III
- Madrid
- Spain
- Unidad Asociada Neurodeath CSIC-UCLM
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- Departamento de Química Inorgánica
- Orgánica y Bioquímica
- Facultad de Farmacia
- Universidad de Castilla-La Man-cha
- 02071-Albacete
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Biancalana L, Zacchini S, Ferri N, Lupo MG, Pampaloni G, Marchetti F. Tuning the cytotoxicity of ruthenium(ii) para-cymene complexes by mono-substitution at a triphenylphosphine/phenoxydiphenylphosphine ligand. Dalton Trans 2017; 46:16589-16604. [DOI: 10.1039/c7dt03385k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The cytotoxic activities of novel Ru(ii) arene complexes with variably mono-substituted phosphine ligands have been assessed towards MDA-MB-231 and A2780 cancer cell lines.
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- Lorenzo Biancalana
- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
- Università di Pisa
- I-56124 Pisa
- Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale “Toso Montanari”
- Università di Bologna
- I-40136 Bologna
- Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze del Farmaco
- Università degli Studi di Padova
- 35131 Padova
- Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze del Farmaco
- Università degli Studi di Padova
- 35131 Padova
- Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
- Università di Pisa
- I-56124 Pisa
- Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
- Università di Pisa
- I-56124 Pisa
- Italy
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Meola G, Braband H, Jordi S, Fox T, Blacque O, Spingler B, Alberto R. Structure and reactivities of rhenium and technetium bis-arene sandwich complexes [M(η6-arene)2]+. Dalton Trans 2017; 46:14631-14637. [DOI: 10.1039/c7dt02072d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Rhenium and 99Tc bis-arene complexes for a molecule-based theranostic approach are presented. Conjugation of biovectors to benzene or substitution of naphthalene allows integration of {Re(η6-C6H6)}+ in pharmaceutical lead structures.
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- Giuseppe Meola
- University of Zurich
- Department of Chemistry
- CH-8057 Zurich
- Switzerland
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- University of Zurich
- Department of Chemistry
- CH-8057 Zurich
- Switzerland
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- University of Zurich
- Department of Chemistry
- CH-8057 Zurich
- Switzerland
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- University of Zurich
- Department of Chemistry
- CH-8057 Zurich
- Switzerland
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- University of Zurich
- Department of Chemistry
- CH-8057 Zurich
- Switzerland
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- University of Zurich
- Department of Chemistry
- CH-8057 Zurich
- Switzerland
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- University of Zurich
- Department of Chemistry
- CH-8057 Zurich
- Switzerland
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Biancalana L, Pratesi A, Chiellini F, Zacchini S, Funaioli T, Gabbiani C, Marchetti F. Ruthenium arene complexes with triphenylphosphane ligands: cytotoxicity towards pancreatic cancer cells, interaction with model proteins, and effect of ethacrynic acid substitution. NEW J CHEM 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7nj02300f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The anticancer behaviour of Ru arene complexes can be tuned by an appropriate choice of the site and linkage of the bioactive group to the phosphane ligand.
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- Lorenzo Biancalana
- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
- Università di Pisa
- I-56124 Pisa
- Italy
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- MetMed
- Dipartimento di Chimica “Ugo Schiff”
- Università di Firenze
- I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino
- Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
- Università di Pisa
- I-56124 Pisa
- Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale “Toso Montanari”
- Università di Bologna
- I-40136 Bologna
- Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
- Università di Pisa
- I-56124 Pisa
- Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
- Università di Pisa
- I-56124 Pisa
- Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
- Università di Pisa
- I-56124 Pisa
- Italy
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Ajibola Adeyemo A, Shettar A, Bhat IA, Kondaiah P, Mukherjee PS. Self-Assembly of Discrete Ru II8 Molecular Cages and Their in Vitro Anticancer Activity. Inorg Chem 2016; 56:608-617. [PMID: 27997153 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Four new octanuclear Ru(II) cages (OC-1-OC-4) were synthesized from dinuclear p-cymene ruthenium(II) acceptors [Ru2(μ-η4-C2O4)(CH3OH)2(η6-p-cymene)2](O3SCF3)2 (A1), [Ru2(μ-η4-C6H2O4)(CH3OH)2(η6-p-cymene)2](O3SCF3)2 (A2), [Ru2(dhnq)(H2O)2(η6-p-cymene)2](O3SCF3)2 (A3), and [Ru2(dhtq)(H2O)2(η6-p-cymene)2](O3SCF3)2 (A4) separately with a tetradentate pyridyl ligand (L1) in methanol using coordination-driven self-assembly [L1= N,N,N',N'-tetra(pyridin-4-yl)benzene-1,4-diamine]. The octanuclear cages are fully characterized by various spectroscopic techniques including single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis of OC-4. The self-assembled cages show strong in vitro anticancer activity against human lung adenocarcinoma A549 and human cervical cancer HeLa cell lines as observed from the 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide assay. Of all the octanuclear cages, OC-3 exhibits remarkable anticancer activity against both cancer cell lines and is more active than that reported for cisplatin. The excellent anticancer activity of OC-3 and OC-4 highlights the importance of the synergistic effects of the spacer component of the dinuclear p-cymene Ru(II) acceptor clips.
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- Aderonke Ajibola Adeyemo
- Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry and †Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore 560012, India
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- Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry and †Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore 560012, India
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- Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry and †Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore 560012, India
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- Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry and †Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore 560012, India
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- Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry and †Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore 560012, India
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Pettinari R, Petrini A, Marchetti F, Pettinari C, Riedel T, Therrien B, Dyson PJ. Arene-Ruthenium(II) Complexes with Bioactiveortho-Hydroxydibenzoylmethane Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, and Cytotoxicity. Eur J Inorg Chem 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201601164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- Riccardo Pettinari
- School of Pharmacy; University of Camerino; Via S. Agostino 1 62032 Camerino (MC) Italy
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- School of Pharmacy; University of Camerino; Via S. Agostino 1 62032 Camerino (MC) Italy
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- School of School of Science and Technology; University of Camerino; Via S. Agostino 1 62032 Camerino (MC) Italy
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- School of Pharmacy; University of Camerino; Via S. Agostino 1 62032 Camerino (MC) Italy
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- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques; Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL); 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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- Institut de Chimie; Université de Neuchâtel; Avenue de Bellevaux 51 CH-2000 Neuchâtel Switzerland
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- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques; Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL); 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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Parveen S, Hanif M, Movassaghi S, Sullivan MP, Kubanik M, Shaheen MA, Söhnel T, Jamieson SMF, Hartinger CG. Cationic Ru(η6-p-cymene) Complexes of 3-Hydroxy-4-pyr(id)ones - Lipophilic Triphenylphosphine as Co-Ligand Is Key to Highly Stable and Cytotoxic Anticancer Agents. Eur J Inorg Chem 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201601163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Shahida Parveen
- School of Chemical Sciences; University of Auckland; Private Bag 92019 1142 Auckland New Zealand
- Department of Chemistry; University of Sargodha; 40100 Sargodha Pakistan
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- School of Chemical Sciences; University of Auckland; Private Bag 92019 1142 Auckland New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences; University of Auckland; Private Bag 92019 1142 Auckland New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences; University of Auckland; Private Bag 92019 1142 Auckland New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences; University of Auckland; Private Bag 92019 1142 Auckland New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences; University of Auckland; Private Bag 92019 1142 Auckland New Zealand
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- Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre; University of Auckland; Private Bag 92019 1142 Auckland New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences; University of Auckland; Private Bag 92019 1142 Auckland New Zealand
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Tsolis T, Papavasileiou KD, Divanis SA, Melissas VS, Garoufis A. How half sandwich ruthenium compounds interact with DNA while not being hydrolyzed; a comparative study. J Inorg Biochem 2016; 160:12-23. [PMID: 27118026 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2016.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2015] [Revised: 03/17/2016] [Accepted: 04/03/2016] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- Theodoros Tsolis
- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, GR-451 10 Ioannina, Greece
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- Institute of Biology, Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48 Vas. Constantinou Ave., GR-116 35 Athens, Greece
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- Section of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, GR-451 10 Ioannina, Greece
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- Section of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, GR-451 10 Ioannina, Greece
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, GR-451 10 Ioannina, Greece.
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Agonigi G, Riedel T, Gay MP, Biancalana L, Oñate E, Dyson PJ, Pampaloni G, Păunescu E, Esteruelas MA, Marchetti F. Arene Osmium Complexes with Ethacrynic Acid-Modified Ligands: Synthesis, Characterization, and Evaluation of Intracellular Glutathione S-Transferase Inhibition and Antiproliferative Activity. Organometallics 2016. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Gabriele Agonigi
- Dipartimento
di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi
13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
| | - Tina Riedel
- Institut
des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - M. Pilar Gay
- Departamento
de Química Inorgánica, Instituto de Síntesis
Química y Catálisis Homogénea (ISQCH), Centro
de Innovación en Química Avanzada (ORFEO−CINQA), Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
| | - Lorenzo Biancalana
- Dipartimento
di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi
13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
| | - Enrique Oñate
- Departamento
de Química Inorgánica, Instituto de Síntesis
Química y Catálisis Homogénea (ISQCH), Centro
de Innovación en Química Avanzada (ORFEO−CINQA), Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
| | - Paul J. Dyson
- Institut
des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - Guido Pampaloni
- Dipartimento
di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi
13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
| | - Emilia Păunescu
- Institut
des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - Miguel A. Esteruelas
- Departamento
de Química Inorgánica, Instituto de Síntesis
Química y Catálisis Homogénea (ISQCH), Centro
de Innovación en Química Avanzada (ORFEO−CINQA), Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
| | - Fabio Marchetti
- Dipartimento
di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi
13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
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Păunescu E, McArthur S, Soudani M, Scopelliti R, Dyson PJ. Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory—Organometallic Anticancer Compounds. Inorg Chem 2016; 55:1788-808. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b02690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Emilia Păunescu
- Institut des Sciences
et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - Sarah McArthur
- Institut des Sciences
et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - Mylène Soudani
- Institut des Sciences
et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - Rosario Scopelliti
- Institut des Sciences
et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - Paul J. Dyson
- Institut des Sciences
et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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