Molecular mechanisms and clinical implications of the gold drug auranofin

S Shen, J Shen, Z Luo, F Wang, J Min - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
… -based anti-inflammatory compound used for the treatment of … focus mainly on its inhibitory
effects on antioxidant defensive … to the identification of a variety of targets for AUR, and this …

Molecular characterization of zebrafish Gstr1, the only member of teleost-specific glutathione S-transferase class

B Bašica, I Mihaljević, N Maraković, R Kovačević… - Aquatic Toxicology, 2019 - Elsevier
… The aim of this study was a detailed functional characterization … ), a potent inhibitor of
GSTP1-1, and auranofin, gold phosphine … The strength of inhibition of the tested compounds was …

Computational studies of Au (I) and Au (III) anticancer metallodrugs: A survey

I Tolbatov, A Marrone, C Coletti, N Re - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
… peroxidase, glutathione-S-transferase, … the inhibition of TrxR, a computational investigation
at DFT level analyzed the ligand exchange reactions of auranofin with the potential target

[HTML][HTML] … chemical proteomics analyses reveal that the new TRi-1 and TRi-2 compounds are more specific thioredoxin reductase 1 inhibitors than auranofin

P Sabatier, CM Beusch, R Gencheva, Q Cheng… - Redox Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
… The overall conclusion from our results is that TRi-1 and TRi-2 are more specific TXNRD1
inhibitors than AF, and we identify additional targets of the three drugs that should be …

Glutathione transferases: substrates, inihibitors and pro-drugs in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases

N Allocati, M Masulli, C Di Ilio, L Federici - Oncogenesis, 2018 - nature.com
Auranofin is an antiarthritic gold phosphine compound that … in contrast to other described
targets 103 . Therefore, future … mechanism of enzyme inhibition played by auranofin on GSTs…

Overexpression of Glutathione S-Transferases in Human Diseases: Drug Targets and Therapeutic Implications

N Lv, C Huang, H Huang, Z Dong, X Chen, C Lu… - Antioxidants, 2023 - mdpi.com
… of AMPK can inhibit the mammalian target of rapamycin (… In contrast, microsomal glutathione
S-transferase 1 (MGST1) … There have been various studies demonstrating that auranofin

Clinically evaluated cancer drugs inhibiting redox signaling

DL Kirkpatrick, G Powis - Antioxidants & redox signaling, 2017 - liebertpub.com
… relatively few agents that target cellular redox homeostasis to … clinically used antiarthritic
gold(I) drugs auranofin, approved … analogue that inhibits glutathione S-transferase pi isoform (…

Targeting bacterial antioxidant systems for antibiotics development

X Ren, L Zou, A Holmgren - Current Medicinal Chemistry, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
… This study suggested that bacterial TrxR is the primary target of auranofin. Inhibition of
TrxR … and affects the corresponding protein functions, such as glutathione-S-transferase [120], …

Glutathione transferases: potential targets to overcome chemoresistance in solid tumors

M Pljesa-Ercegovac, A Savic-Radojevic… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
… [104,105] Another compound enabling cells to overcome resistance to platinum based
drugs, shown to inhibit GSTP1 enzyme activity, is auranofin, a gold-phosphine compound [106]. …

Toward anticancer gold-based compounds targeting PARP-1: a new case study

A Citta, V Scalcon, P Göbel, B Bertrand, M Wenzel… - RSC …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
… (GR), glutathione-S-transferase, 12 cysteine proteases, 13 … shown to be potently inhibited
by gold complexes. Interestingly, … and cell extracts, in comparison to auranofin, the gold(I) anti-…