[HTML][HTML] Metallodrug binding to serum albumin: Lessons from biophysical and structural studies

A Merlino - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Human serum albumin (HSA) plays a major role in the transport of metallodrugs, affecting
pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of these molecules. This work highlights the …

Kinetics of reactions of dirhodium and diruthenium paddlewheel tetraacetate complexes with nucleophilic protein sites: Computational Insights

I Tolbatov, A Marrone - Inorganic Chemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recently, dirhodium and diruthenium paddlewheel complexes have drawn attention as
perspective anticancer drugs. In this study, the kinetics of reaction of typical paddlewheel …

Effect of equatorial ligand substitution on the reactivity with proteins of paddlewheel diruthenium complexes: Structural studies

A Terán, G Ferraro, AE Sánchez-Peláez… - Inorganic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The paddlewheel [Ru2Cl (O2CCH3) 4] complex was previously reported to react with the
model protein hen egg white lysozyme (HEWL), forming adducts with two diruthenium …

Exchange of equatorial ligands in protein-bound paddlewheel Ru 2 5+ complexes: new insights from X-ray crystallography and quantum chemistry

A Terán, F Fasulo, G Ferraro… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Here we report the binding of the diruthenium complex [Ru2Cl (Dp-CNPhF)(O2CCH3) 3] n
(Dp-CNPhF−= N, N′-bis (4-cyanophenyl) formamidinate) to the model protein bovine …

Cross-linked crystals of dirhodium tetraacetate/RNase A adduct can be used as heterogeneous catalysts

D Loreto, B Maity, T Morita, H Nakamura… - Inorganic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Due to their unique coordination structure, dirhodium paddlewheel complexes are of interest
in several research fields, like medicinal chemistry, catalysis, etc. Previously, these …

Dirhodium tetraacetate binding to a B-DNA double helical dodecamer probed by X-ray crystallography and mass spectrometry

G Tito, R Troisi, G Ferraro, A Geri, L Massai… - Dalton …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The reaction of the cytotoxic compound dirhodium tetraacetate with a B-DNA double helical
dodecamer was studied by X-ray crystallography and mass spectrometry. The structure of …