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JOURNAL OF COORDINATION CHEMISTRY
Volume 68, Issue 16, Pages 2923-2937Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00958972.2015.1062480
Keywords
Organometallic ruthenium compound; Clotrimazole; Cancer; Trypanosomes
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- ANII
- CSIC-Universidad de la Republica [800]
- PEDECIBA
- ANII-SNI, Uruguay
- FOCEM (MERCOSUR Structural Convergence Fund) [COF 03/11]
- Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) (IF Initiative) [IF/01179/2013]
- Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) [SFRH/BPD/93513/2013]
- FCT [PTDC/QUI-QUI/118077/2010, PEst-OE/QUI/UI0536]
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As part of our efforts to develop organometallic ruthenium compounds bearing activity on both trypanosomatid parasites and tumor cells, a new Ru(II)-cyclopentadienyl clotrimazole complex, [RuCp(PPh3)(2)(CTZ)](CF3SO3), where Cp=cyclopentadienyl, CTZ=clotrimazole, was synthesized and characterized. The compound was evaluated in vitro on T. cruzi (Y strain), the infective form of T. brucei brucei strain 427 (cell line 449), on three human tumor cell lines with different sensitivity to cisplatin (A2780, ovary; MCF7, breast; HeLa, cervix) and on J774 murine macrophages as mammalian cell model. The new compound is more cytotoxic on T. cruzi and on the tumor cell lines than the reference drugs (Nifurtimox and cisplatin, respectively). In addition, complexation of the bioactive CTZ to the {RuCp(PPh3)} moiety leads to significant increase of the antiparasitic and antitumoral activity. To get insight into the potential dual mechanism of antiparasitic action emerging from the presence of Ru(II) and CTZ in a single molecule, the inhibitory effect of this new complex on the biosynthesis of T. cruzi sterols of membrane and the interaction with DNA were studied. Although the tested complex does not affect DNA, it affects the T. cruzi biosynthetic pathway of conversion of squalene to squalene oxide. According to the results reported here, [RuCp(PPh3)(2)(CTZ)][CF3SO3] could be considered a prospective antiparasitic and/or antitumoral agent that deserves further evaluation.
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