Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 23, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms231810469
Keywords
cyclometallated; G-quadruplex; Pt(II); anticancer
Funding
- Western Sydney University
- Australian Postgraduate Award
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This paper describes the development of novel quadruplex DNA-stabilizing metal complexes and demonstrates their stability-enhancing effects on quadruplex DNA. Furthermore, these complexes exhibit cytotoxic effects and show good selectivity.
Herein is described the development of a series of novel quadruplex DNA (QDNA)-stabilising cyclometallated square-planar metal complexes (CMCs). Melting experiments using quadruplex DNA (QDNA) demonstrated that interactions with the complexes increased the melting temperature by up to 19 degrees C. This QDNA stabilisation was determined in two of the major G-quadruplex structures formed in the human c-MYC promoter gene (c-MYC) and a human telomeric repeat sequence (H-Telo). The CMCs were found to stabilise H-telo more strongly than c-MYC, and the CMCs with the highest cytotoxic effect had a low-moderate correlation between H-telo binding capacity and cytotoxicity (R-2 values up to 10 times those of c-MYC). The melting experiments further revealed that the stabilisation effect was altered depending on whether the CMC was introduced before or after the formation of QDNA. All CMCs' GI(50) values were comparable or better than cisplatin in human cancer cell lines HT29, U87, MCF-7, H460, A431, Du145, BE2-C, SJ-G2, MIA, and ADDP. Complexes 6, 7, and 9 were significantly more cytotoxic than cisplatin in all cell lines tested and had good to moderate selectivity indices, 1.7-4.5 in MCF10A/MCF-7. The emission quantum yields were determined to be relatively high (up to 0.064), and emission occurred outside cellular autofluorescence, meaning CMC fluorescence is ideal for in vitro analyses.
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