The Power of Kinetic Inertness in Improving Platinum Anticancer Therapy by Circumventing Resistance and Ameliorating Nephrotoxicity

TR Panda, SP Vaidya, S Chhatar… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Even in the modern era of precision medicine and immunotherapy, chemotherapy with
platinum (Pt) drugs remains among the most commonly prescribed medications against a …

Kinetically Inert Platinum (II) Complexes for Improving Anticancer Therapy: Recent Developments and Road Ahead

TR Panda, M Patra - ChemMedChem, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The search for better chemotherapeutic drugs to alleviate the deficiencies of existing
platinum (Pt) drugs has picked up the pace in the millennium. There has been a disparate …

G-quadruplex-mediated specific recognition, stabilization and transcriptional repression of bcl-2 by small molecule

N Pandya, M Singh, R Rani, V Kumar… - Archives of Biochemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
The presence of the G-quadruplex (G4) structure in the promoter region of the human bcl-2
oncogenes makes it a promising target for developing anti-cancer therapeutics. Bcl-2 …

Synthesis and Characterisation of Fluorescent Novel Pt (II) Cyclometallated Complexes with Anticancer Activity

BS McGhie, J Sakoff, J Gilbert, CP Gordon… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cancer poses a significant threat to global health and new treatments are required to
improve the prognosis for patients. Previously, unconventional platinum complexes …

Versatile platinum (iv) prodrugs of naproxen and acemetacin as chemo-anti-inflammatory agents

AD Aputen, MG Elias, J Gilbert, JA Sakoff, CP Gordon… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Traditional intravenous platinum (II) chemotherapy drugs such as cisplatin,
oxaliplatin and carboplatin are highly effective in treating multiple cancer types …

G-quadruplex DNA selective targeting for anticancer therapy: a computational study of a novel Pt II monofunctional complex activated by adaptive binding

D Belletto, F Ponte, N Sanna, S Scoditti, E Sicilia - Dalton Transactions, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Targeting of G-quadruplex (GQ) nucleic acids, which are helical four-stranded structures
formed from guanine-rich nucleic acid sequences, has emerged in recent years as an …

Cyclometalated platinum (ii) complex as a selective light switch for G-quadruplex DNA

M Saini, TE Keyes - Dalton Transactions, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Cyclometalated 1, 3-bis (8-quinolyl) phenyl chloroplatinum (II)(Pt1) shows selective
luminescence transduction of G-quadruplex binding over duplex DNA. The effect is …