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Lilly K, Wang M, Orr AA, Bondos SE, Phillips TD, Tamamis P. β-Lactoglobulin Enhances Clay and Activated Carbon Binding and Protection Properties for Cadmium and Lead. Ind Eng Chem Res 2024; 63:16124-16140. [PMID: 39319074 PMCID: PMC11417999 DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.4c01774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2024] [Revised: 08/13/2024] [Accepted: 08/14/2024] [Indexed: 09/26/2024]
Abstract
The removal of heavy metals from wastewater remains a challenge due to the limitations of current remediation methods. This study aims to develop multicomponent composites as inexpensive and environmentally friendly sorbents with enhanced capture of cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb). The composites are based on calcium montmorillonite (CM) and activated carbon (AC) because of their proven effectiveness as sorbents for diverse toxins in environmental settings. In this study, we used a combination of computational and experimental methods to delineate that β-lactoglobulin enhances CM and AC binding and protection properties for Cd and Pb. Modeling and molecular dynamics simulations investigated the formation of material systems formed by CM and AC in complex with β-lactoglobulin and predicted their capacity to bind heavy metal ions at neutral pH conditions. Our simulations suggest that the enhanced binding properties of the material systems are attributed to the presence of several binding pockets formed by β-lactoglobulin for the two heavy metal ions. At neutral pH conditions, divalent Cd and Pb shared comparable binding propensities in all material systems, with the former being consistently higher than the latter. To validate the interactions depicted in simulations, two ecotoxicological models (L. minor and H. vulgaris) were exposed to Cd, Pb, and a mixture of the two. The inclusion of CM-lactoglobulin (β-lactoglobulin amended CM) and AC-lactoglobulin (β-lactoglobulin amended AC) at 0.05-0.2% efficiently and dose-dependently reduced the severe toxicity of metals and increased the growth parameters. This high efficacy of protection shown in the ecotoxicological models may result from the numerous possible interaction pockets of the β-lactoglobulin-amended materials depicted in simulations. The ecotoxicological models support the agreement with computations. This study serves as a proof of concept on how computations in tandem with experiments can be used in the design of multicomponent clay- and carbon-based sorbent amended systems with augmented functionalities for particular toxins.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kendall Lilly
- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
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- Department
of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology, College of Veterinary Medicine
and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
- Interdisciplinary
Faculty of Toxicology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
- Department
of Environmental Health Sciences, University
of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
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- Artie
McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
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- Department
of Medical Physiology Texas A&M Health Science Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
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- Department
of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology, College of Veterinary Medicine
and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
- Interdisciplinary
Faculty of Toxicology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
- Artie
McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
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Szupryczyński K, Czeleń P, Jeliński T, Szefler B. What is the Reason That the Pharmacological Future of Chemotherapeutics in the Treatment of Lung Cancer Could Be Most Closely Related to Nanostructures? Platinum Drugs in Therapy of Non-Small and Small Cell Lung Cancer and Their Unexpected, Possible Interactions. The Review. Int J Nanomedicine 2024; 19:9503-9547. [PMID: 39296940 PMCID: PMC11410046 DOI: 10.2147/ijn.s469217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2024] [Accepted: 07/19/2024] [Indexed: 09/21/2024] Open
Abstract
Over the course of several decades, anticancer treatment with chemotherapy drugs for lung cancer has not changed significantly. Unfortunately, this treatment prolongs the patient's life only by a few months, causing many side effects in the human body. It has also been proven that drugs such as Cisplatin, Carboplatin, Oxaliplatin and others can react with other substances containing an aromatic ring in which the nitrogen atom has a free electron group in its structure. Thus, such structures may have a competitive effect on the nucleobases of DNA. Therefore, scientists are looking not only for new drugs, but also for new alternative ways of delivering the drug to the cancer site. Nanotechnology seems to be a great hope in this matter. Creating a new nanomedicine would reduce the dose of the drug to an absolute minimum, and thus limit the toxic effect of the drug; it would allow for the exclusion of interactions with competitive compounds with a structure similar to nucleobases; it would also permit using the so-called targeted treatment and bypassing healthy cells; it would allow for the introduction of other treatment options, such as radiotherapy directly to the cancer site; and it would provide diagnostic possibilities. This article is a review that aims to systematize the knowledge regarding the anticancer treatment of lung cancer, but not only. It shows the clear possibility of interactions of chemotherapeutics with compounds competitive to the nitrogenous bases of DNA. It also shows the possibilities of using nanostructures as potential Platinum drug carriers, and proves that nanomedicine can easily become a new medicinal product in personalized medicine.
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- Kamil Szupryczyński
- Doctoral School of Medical and Health Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus, Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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Troisi R, Galardo F, Ferraro G, Sica F, Merlino A. Cisplatin Binding to Human Serum Transferrin: A Crystallographic Study. Inorg Chem 2023; 62:675-678. [PMID: 36602395 PMCID: PMC9846693 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c04206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
Abstract
The molecular mechanism of how human serum transferrin (hTF) recognizes cisplatin at the atomic level is still unclear. Here, we report the molecular structure of the adduct formed upon the reaction of hTF with cisplatin. Pt binds the side chain of Met256 (at the N-lobe), without altering the protein overall conformation.
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- Romualdo Troisi
- Department
of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples
Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, via Cintia, Naples I-80126, Italy
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- Department
of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples
Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, via Cintia, Naples I-80126, Italy
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- Department
of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples
Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, via Cintia, Naples I-80126, Italy
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- Department
of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples
Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, via Cintia, Naples I-80126, Italy
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- Department
of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples
Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, via Cintia, Naples I-80126, Italy,
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Habibian-Dehkordi S, Farhadian S, Ghasemi M, Evini M. Insight into the binding behavior, structure, and thermal stability properties of β-lactoglobulin/Amoxicillin complex in a neutral environment. Food Hydrocoll 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2022.107830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Loch JI, Barciszewski J, Śliwiak J, Bonarek P, Wróbel P, Pokrywka K, Shabalin IG, Minor W, Jaskolski M, Lewiński K. New ligand-binding sites identified in the crystal structures of β-lactoglobulin complexes with desipramine. IUCRJ 2022; 9:386-398. [PMID: 35546795 PMCID: PMC9067113 DOI: 10.1107/s2052252522004183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
The homodimeric β-lactoglobulin belongs to the lipocalin family of proteins that transport a wide range of hydrophobic molecules and can be modified by mutagenesis to develop specificity for novel groups of ligands. In this work, new lactoglobulin variants, FAF (I56F/L39A/M107F) and FAW (I56F/L39A/M107W), were produced and their interactions with the tricyclic drug desipramine (DSM) were studied using X-ray crystallography, calorimetry (ITC) and circular dichroism (CD). The ITC and CD data showed micromolar affinity of the mutants for DSM and interactions according to the classical one-site binding model. However, the crystal structures unambiguously showed that the FAF and FAW dimers are capable of binding DSM not only inside the β-barrel as expected, but also at the dimer interface and at the entrance to the binding pocket. The presented high-resolution crystal structures therefore provide important evidence of the existence of alternative ligand-binding sites in the β-lactoglobulin molecule. Analysis of the crystal structures highlighted the importance of shape complementarity for ligand recognition and selectivity. The binding sites identified in the crystal structures of the FAF-DSM and FAW-DSM complexes together with data from the existing literature are used to establish a systematic classification of the ligand-binding sites in the β-lactoglobulin molecule.
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- Joanna I. Loch
- Department of Crystal Chemistry and Crystal Physics, Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Physical Biochemistry, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Crystal Chemistry and Crystal Physics, Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Crystal Chemistry and Crystal Physics, Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
- Department of Crystallography, Faculty of Chemistry, A. Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Crystal Chemistry and Crystal Physics, Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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Monti DM, Loreto D, Iacobucci I, Ferraro G, Pratesi A, D’Elia L, Monti M, Merlino A. Protein-Based Delivery Systems for Anticancer Metallodrugs: Structure and Biological Activity of the Oxaliplatin/β-Lactoglobulin Adduct. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2022; 15:ph15040425. [PMID: 35455422 PMCID: PMC9033069 DOI: 10.3390/ph15040425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2022] [Revised: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
Abstract
β-lactoglobulin is the major component of whey. Here, the adduct formed upon the reaction of the protein with oxaliplatin (OXA) has been prepared, structurally characterized by X-ray crystallography and electrospray ionization–mass spectrometry, and evaluated as a cytotoxic agent. The data demonstrate that OXA rapidly binds β-lactoglobulin via coordination with a Met7 side chain upon release of the oxalate ligand. The adduct is significantly more cytotoxic than the free drug and induces apoptosis in cancer cells. Overall, our results suggest that metallodrug/β-lactoglobulin adducts can be used as anticancer agents and that the protein can be used as a metallodrug delivery system.
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- Daria Maria Monti
- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, Via Cintia, 21, 80126 Napoli, Italy; (D.M.M.); (D.L.); (I.I.); (G.F.); (L.D.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, Via Cintia, 21, 80126 Napoli, Italy; (D.M.M.); (D.L.); (I.I.); (G.F.); (L.D.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, Via Cintia, 21, 80126 Napoli, Italy; (D.M.M.); (D.L.); (I.I.); (G.F.); (L.D.); (M.M.)
- CEINGE Advanced Biotechnologies s.c.a.r.l., Via G. Salvatore 486, 80145 Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, Via Cintia, 21, 80126 Napoli, Italy; (D.M.M.); (D.L.); (I.I.); (G.F.); (L.D.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi 13, 56124 Pisa, Italy;
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, Via Cintia, 21, 80126 Napoli, Italy; (D.M.M.); (D.L.); (I.I.); (G.F.); (L.D.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, Via Cintia, 21, 80126 Napoli, Italy; (D.M.M.); (D.L.); (I.I.); (G.F.); (L.D.); (M.M.)
- CEINGE Advanced Biotechnologies s.c.a.r.l., Via G. Salvatore 486, 80145 Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, Via Cintia, 21, 80126 Napoli, Italy; (D.M.M.); (D.L.); (I.I.); (G.F.); (L.D.); (M.M.)
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Current and emerging mass spectrometry methods for the preclinical development of metal-based drugs: a critical appraisal. Anal Bioanal Chem 2021; 414:95-102. [PMID: 34642780 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-021-03718-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2021] [Revised: 09/23/2021] [Accepted: 10/04/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
Abstract
This Trends article highlights the multiple ways in which the state-of-the-art molecular mass spectrometry can support the preclinical development of novel metal-based anticancer drugs. Examples from the recent literature-beyond routine characterization applications-are presented to illustrate what analytical and experimental design challenges are to be addressed to facilitate the translation of promising drug candidates to clinical practice.
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Recent advances in structural studies unveiling the basis of the metal compounds/protein recognition process are discussed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Antonello Merlino
- Department of Chemical Sciences
- University of Naples Federico II
- Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo
- Napoli
- Italy
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