ArticleChemical communications (Cambridge, England)2017
To cage or to be caged? The cytotoxic species in ruthenium-based photoactivated chemotherapy is not always the metal.
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- Ru(II) Phenanthroline-Based Oligothienyl Complexes as Phototherapy Agents.Inorganic chemistry · 2023Article
- Ruthenium-Based Photoactivated Chemotherapy.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2023Review
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- Ruthenium Complexes with Protic Ligands: Influence of the Position of OH Groups and π Expansion on Luminescence and Photocytotoxicity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
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- Photosubstitution in a trisheteroleptic ruthenium complex inhibits conjunctival melanoma growth in a zebrafish orthotopic xenograft model.Chemical science · 2022Article
- Anticancer Agent with Inexplicable Potency in Extreme Hypoxia: Characterizing a Light-Triggered Ruthenium Ubertoxin.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2022Article
- Factors that influence singlet oxygen formation vs. ligand substitution for light-activated ruthenium anticancer compounds.Current opinion in chemical biology · 2022Review
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- Light-responsive and Protic Ruthenium Compounds Bearing Bathophenanthroline and Dihydroxybipyridine Ligands Achieve Nanomolar Toxicity towards Breast Cancer Cells.Photochemistry and photobiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
In metal-based photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT), two photoproducts are generated by light-triggered photosubstitution of a metal-bound ligand: the free ligand itself and an aquated metal complex. By analogy with cisplatin, the aquated metal complex is usually presented as the biologically active species, as it can typically bind to DNA. In this work, we show that this qualitative assumption is not necessarily valid by comparing the biological activity, log P, and cellular uptake of three ruthenium-based PACT complexes: [Ru(bpy)
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