Biological activities of ruthenium NHC complexes: An update

A Catalano, A Mariconda, MS Sinicropi, J Ceramella… - Antibiotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Ruthenium N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes have unique physico-chemical
properties as catalysts and a huge potential in medicinal chemistry and pharmacology …

Combination of ruthenium (II) polypyridyl complex Δ-Ru1 and Taxol enhances the anti-cancer effect on Taxol-resistant cancer cells through Caspase-1/GSDMD …

D Chen, S Guo, X Tang, Y Rong, H Bo, H Shen… - Journal of Inorganic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Taxol is the first-line drug for cancer treatment. However, tumor resistance to Taxol is still a
significant challenge in clinical practice. Here, we studied the synergistic effect of a …

Development of rGO/RuO2 nanocomposite for voltammetric sensors, dye degradation and antioxidant studies

M Mylarappa, S Chandruvasan, R Sandhya - Materials Chemistry and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The current study shows the synthesis of reduced graphene incorporated ruthenium oxide
(rGO/RuO 2) using a reflux approach. The rGO/RuO 2 nanocomposite was confirmed using …

New nanostructured materials based on mesoporous silica loaded with Ru (II)/Ru (III) complexes with anticancer and antimicrobial properties

G Marinescu, DC Culita, T Mocanu, RA Mitran… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
A new series of nanostructured materials was obtained by functionalization of SBA-15
mesoporous silica with Ru (II) and Ru (III) complexes bearing Schiff base ligands derived …

Ruthenium complexes bearing glucosyl ligands are able to inhibit the amyloid aggregation of short histidine-peptides

D Florio, S La Manna, A Annunziata, I Iacobucci… - Dalton …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Neurodegenerative diseases are often characterized by the formation of aggregates of
amyloidogenic peptides and proteins, facilitating the formation of neurofibrillary plaques. In …

Cancer cell extravasation requires iplectin-mediated delivery of MT1-MMP at invadopodia

OR Grafinger, JJ Hayward, Y Meng… - British Journal of …, 2024 - nature.com
Background Invadopodia facilitate cancer cell extravasation, but the molecular mechanism
whereby invadopodia-specific proteases such as MT1-MMP are called to invadopodia is …

Copper (II) cation and bathophenanthroline coordination enhance therapeutic effects of naringenin against lung tumor cells

JY Caro-Ramirez, MG Rivas, PJ Gonzalez… - BioMetals, 2022 - Springer
The development of new anticancer compounds is one of the challenges of bioinorganic
and medicinal chemistry. Naringenin and its metal complexes have been recognized as …

[HTML][HTML] Lead to hit ruthenium-cyclopentadienyl anticancer compounds: Cytotoxicity against breast cancer cells, metabolic stability and metabolite profiling

I Maximiano, C Henriques, RG Teixeira… - Journal of Inorganic …, 2024 - Elsevier
The successful choice of hit compounds during drug development programs involves the
integration of structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies with pharmacokinetic …

Red-Light-Responsive Polypeptoid Nanoassemblies Containing a Ruthenium (II) Polypyridyl Complex with Synergistically Enhanced Drug Release and ROS …

Y Ma, Z Zhang, F Sun, P Mesdom, X Ji… - …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymer micelles/vesicles made of a red-light-responsive Ru (II)-containing block copolymer
(PolyRu) are elaborated as a model system for anticancer phototherapy. PolyRu is …

Necroptosis induced by ruthenium (II) complexes as mitochondrial disruptors

J Gonçalves, JD Amaral, R Capela, MJ Perry… - Cell Death …, 2024 - nature.com
Inducing necroptosis in cancer cells has emerged as an effective strategy to overcome drug
resistance. However, while organic small molecules have been extensively studied for this …