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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages 755-764Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00775-008-0361-z
Keywords
carboplatin; cytochrome c; electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry; metallodrugs; mechanism of action
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Carboplatin (CPT), today the most important platinum(II) anticancer drug, manifests an extreme kinetic inertness, in vitro, at physiological pH; the actual mechanisms for its activation inside cells are still poorly understood. We show here that horse heart cytochrome c reacts with CPT, leading to the formation of stable platinum/protein adducts. The two major CPT-cytochrome c species resulting from the aforementioned reaction were characterised by electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). Notably, both these adducts have the ability to react with guanosine 5'-monophosphate (5'-GMP), giving rise to the respective cytochrome c-CPT-5'-GMP ternary complexes. Additional ESI-MS measurements on enzymatically cleaved cytochrome c adducts suggest that protein platination probably occurs at Met65. The mechanistic implications of these findings are discussed.
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