Piano stool Ru (II)-arene complexes having three monodentate legs: A comprehensive review on their development as anticancer therapeutics over the past decade

S Swaminathan, J Haribabu, N Balakrishnan… - Coordination chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
The popularity of RAPTA-C in in vivo studies has steered the way for complexes of the type
[Ru (η 6-arene)(X)(Y)(Z)] n+ (where X, Y and Z are monodentate ligands) to be developed …

Recent progress in the development of organometallics for the treatment of cancer

BS Murray, PJ Dyson - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2020 - Elsevier
From their early successes in medicine, organometallic compounds continue to attract
interest as potential chemotherapeutics to treat a range of diseases. Here, we show from …

Histone divergence in trypanosomes results in unique alterations to nucleosome structure

G Deák, H Wapenaar, G Sandoval, R Chen… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Eukaryotes have a multitude of diverse mechanisms for organising and using their
genomes, but the histones that make up chromatin are highly conserved. Unusually …

Recent considerations in the application of RAPTA‐C for cancer treatment and perspectives for its combination with immunotherapies

M Rausch, PJ Dyson… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The organometallic ruthenium (II)[Ru (arene) Cl2PTA] PTA‐1, 3, 5‐triaza‐7‐
phosphaadamantane compound, RAPTA‐C, represents an innovative anti‐cancer …

Near-atomic resolution structures of interdigitated nucleosome fibres

Z Adhireksan, D Sharma, PL Lee, CA Davey - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Chromosome structure at the multi-nucleosomal level has remained ambiguous in spite of
its central role in epigenetic regulation and genome dynamics. Recent investigations of …

Multinuclear biologically active Ru, Rh, Os and Ir arene complexes

P Štarha - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of multinuclear homometallic biologically active complexes is attractive for
modern bioinorganic chemistry, because this concept offers a multiplication of the …

Binding mechanisms of half-sandwich Rh (III) and Ru (II) arene complexes on human serum albumin: A comparative study

O Dömötör, ÉA Enyedy - JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2019 - Springer
Various half-sandwich ruthenium (II) arene complexes and rhodium (III) arene complexes
have been intensively investigated due to their prominent anticancer activity. The interaction …

Epstein-Barr virus protein BKRF4 restricts nucleosome assembly to suppress host antiviral responses

J Chen, Z Lu, W Gong, X **ao, X Feng… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Inhibition of host DNA damage response (DDR) is a common mechanism used by viruses to
manipulate host cellular machinery and orchestrate viral life cycles. Epstein-Barr virus …

Anticancer organorhodium and-iridium complexes with low toxicity in vivo but high potency in vitro: DNA damage, reactive oxygen species formation, and haemolytic …

S Parveen, M Hanif, E Leung, KKH Tong… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Redox-modulating anticancer drugs allow the exploitation of altered redox biology observed
in many cancer cells. We discovered dinuclear RhIII (Cp*) and IrIII (Cp*) complexes that …

Dichloro Ru(II)-p-cymene-1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane (RAPTA-C): A Case Study

S Swaminathan, R Karvembu - ACS Pharmacology & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The use of organometallic compounds to treat various phenotypes of cancer has attracted
increased interest in recent decades. Organometallic compounds, which are transitional …