ReviewChemical science2020
Metallodrugs are unique: opportunities and challenges of discovery and development.
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219 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Metallodrugs in the battle against non-small cell lung cancer: unlocking the potential for improved therapeutic outcomes.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Pooled it
- Metal coordination at biological interfaces: Mechanisms, therapeutics, and translation.Materials today. Bio · 2026Review
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- Proteome-Wide Target Identification Using Reactive Metallo-Scaffolds (r-mS): A Platform for Metallodrug Discovery.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Lipid-conjugated Ru(iii) complexes as inhibitors of pathological peptide aggregation in neurodegenerative disorders.RSC medicinal chemistry · 2026Article
- Multifunctional auranofin analogues: dual-targeting TSPO/TrxR gold(I) complexes with activity in resistant ovarian cancer.Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine · 2026Article
- From 2D to 3D Colorectal Cancer Patient-Derived Organoids (PDOs) and In Vivo Models: Copper(II) Complexes as Promising New Antitumor Agents.Journal of medicinal chemistry · 2026Article
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- Targeting Copper in Cancer: Chelators to Counteract Cuproplasia and Ionophores to Promote Cuproptosis.Journal of medicinal chemistry · 2026Review
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- Unraveling the coordination isomerism by ligand hyperfine NMR shifts.Chemical science · 2026Article
- A platinum butterfly effect: small changes turn an anticancer drug into a non-toxic metalloantibiotic with in vivo efficacy.npj antimicrobials and resistance · 2026Article
- Exploring Gallium(III) Complexes as Emerging Therapeutic Candidates for Breast Cancer.Journal of medicinal chemistry · 2026Article
- Metal complexes in medicine: structural scaffoldsChemical science · 2026Review
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Abstract
Metals play vital roles in nutrients and medicines and provide chemical functionalities that are not accessible to purely organic compounds. At least 10 metals are essential for human life and about 46 other non-essential metals (including radionuclides) are also used in drug therapies and diagnostic agents. These include platinum drugs (in 50% of cancer chemotherapies), lithium (bipolar disorders), silver (antimicrobials), and bismuth (broad-spectrum antibiotics). While the quest for novel and better drugs is now as urgent as ever, drug discovery and development pipelines established for organic drugs and based on target identification and high-throughput screening of compound libraries are less effective when applied to metallodrugs. Metallodrugs are often prodrugs which undergo activation by ligand substitution or redox reactions, and are multi-targeting, all of which need to be considered when establishing structure-activity relationships. We focus on early-stage
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