Journal
CHEMICAL BIOLOGY & DRUG DESIGN
Volume 92, Issue 3, Pages 1657-1669Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cbdd.13332
Keywords
cell death; cell metabolism; platinum organometallic compound; Pt-based compound action; Trypanosoma cruzi
Funding
- PEDECIBA-Programa de Desarrollo de Ciencias Basicas
- Agencia Nacional de Investigacion e Innovacion [POS_FMV_2015_1_1005183]
- Comision Sectorial de Investigacion Cientifica [INI_2015_362]
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Chagas disease is an endemic illness in Latin America caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Current chemotherapies are old and inadequate, and the emergence of drug-resistant strains underscores the need of new drugs. Platinum-based complexes have been shown to be a promising approach against parasitic diseases. In this work, the effect of 1,1-bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene pyridine-2-thiolate-1-oxide Pt(II) hexafluorophosphate, Pt-dppf-mpo, was studied on T.cruzi. A promising antitrypanosomal activity was determined for the CL Brener strain with a low cytotoxicity determined using in vitro-cultured mammal cells. The compound uptake in parasites treated with concentrations of 1x and 10x the IC50 value reached similar to 75% and 19%, respectively. Pt-dppf-mpo induced necrosis after 24hr of parasite incubation. This event was preceded by depolarization of mitochondrial membrane potential. Cell vitality assays showed high esterase activity in treated parasites. However, despite this increase in metabolic activity, treated epimastigotes showed rounded morphology and loss of flagellum with a reduction in mobility as compound concentration and/or time of incubation was increased. At last, we demonstrate that Pt-dppf-mpo incubation also affects the trypomastigote infection process as well as the infection persistence evaluated as the number of amastigotes per cell in a dose-dependent manner.
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