ArticleChemMedChem2021
Albumin Conjugates of Thiosemicarbazone and Imidazole-2-thione Prochelators: Iron Coordination and Antiproliferative Activity.
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- The Role of Iron Chelation Therapy in Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review on Its Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potential.Cancer medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Prochelators modulate azole activity againstRSC chemical biology · 2026Article
- Disulfide-based 2-pyridyl-hydrazone prochelators induce iron deprivation and oxidative stress in ovarian cancer cells.Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2025Article
- Functionalizing Thiosemicarbazones for Covalent Conjugation.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Quinoline-based tetrazolium prochelators: formazan release, iron sequestration, and antiproliferative efficacy in cancer cells.Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- Design of Tetrazolium Cations for the Release of Antiproliferative Formazan Chelators in Mammalian Cells.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2023Article
- Targeting iron to contrast cancer progression.Current opinion in chemical biology · 2023Review
- Thiol-Reactive Arylsulfonate Masks for Phenolate Donors in Antiproliferative Iron Prochelators.Inorganic chemistry · 2022Article
- Aroylhydrazone Glycoconjugate Prochelators Exploit Glucose Transporter 1 (GLUT1) to Target Iron in Cancer Cells.ACS medicinal chemistry letters · 2022Article
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Abstract
The central role of iron in tumor progression and metastasis motivates the development of iron-binding approaches in cancer chemotherapy. Disulfide-based prochelators are reductively activated upon cellular uptake to liberate thiol chelators responsible for iron sequestration. Herein, a trimethyl thiosemicarbazone moiety and the imidazole-2-thione heterocycle are incorporated in this prochelator design. Iron binding of the corresponding tridentate chelators leads to the stabilization of a low-spin ferric center in 2 : 1 ligand-to-metal complexes. Native mass spectrometry experiments show that the prochelators form stable disulfide conjugates with bovine serum albumin, thus affording novel bioconjugate prochelator systems. Antiproliferative activities at sub-micromolar levels are recorded in a panel of breast, ovarian and colorectal cancer cells, along with significantly lower activity in normal fibroblasts.
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