7/abril/2012
Paulina Levario
The PtIV diazido complex trans,trans,trans-[Pt(N3)2(OH)2(pyridine)2] (1) is unreactive in the dark but is cytotoxic when photoactivated by UVA and visible light. We have shown that 1when photoactivated accumulates in tumor cells and binds strongly to nuclear DNA under conditions in which it is toxic to tumor cells. The nature of the DNA adducts, including conformational alterations, induced by photoactivated 1 are distinctly different from those produced in DNA by conventional cisplatin or transplatin. In addition, the observation that major DNA adducts of photoactivated 1 are able to efficiently stall RNA polymerase II more efficiently than cisplatin suggests that transcription inhibition may contribute to the cytotoxicity levels observed for photoactivated 1. Hence, DNA adducts of 1 could trigger a number of downstream cellular effects different from those triggered in cancer cells by DNA adducts of cisplatin. This might lead to the therapeutic effects that could radically improve chemotherapy by platinum complexes. The findings of the present work help to explain the different cytotoxic effects of photoactivated 1 and conventional cisplatin and thereby provide new insights into mechanisms associated with the antitumor effects of platinum complexes photoactivated by UVA and visible light.
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Interactions of DNA with a New Platinum(IV) Azide Dipyridine Complex Activated by UVA and Visible Light: Relationship to Toxicity in Tumor Cells
Jitka Pracharova, Lenka Zerzankova, Jana Stepankova, Olga Novakova, Nicola J. Farrer, Peter J. Sadler, Viktor Brabec, and Jana Kasparkova
Chemical Research in Toxicology Article ASAP
Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, 17. Listopadu 12, CZ-77146 Olomouc, Czech Republic
Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Kralovopolska 135, CZ-61265 Brno, Czech Republic
Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, CV4 7AL, Coventry, United Kingdom
DOI: 10.1021/tx300057y
Publication Date (Web): March 15, 2012
Copyright © 2012 American Chemical Society
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