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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
卷 59, 期 5, 页码 3281-3289出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03640
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- Univ. of Auckland
- Cancer Research Trust New Zealand
- Royal Society of New Zealand
- NHMRC CJ Martin Overseas Biomedical Fellowship [APP1090612]
- DOE Office of Science [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- International Synchrotron Access Program by the Australian Synchrotron, part of ANSTO
- Australian Government
Metal complexes provide a versatile platform to develop novel anticancer pharmacophores, and they form stable compounds with N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands, some of which have been shown to inhibit the cancer-related selenoenzyme thioredoxin reductase (TrxR). To expand a library of isostructural NHC complexes, we report here the preparation of Rh-III- and Ir-III(Cp*) (NHC)Cl-2 (Cp* = eta(5)-pentamethylcyclopentadienyl) compounds and comparison of their properties to the Ru-II- and os(II)(cym) analogues (cym = eta(6)-p-cymene). Like the Ru-II- and os(II)(cym) complexes, the Rh-III- and Ir-III(Cp*) derivatives exhibit cytotoxic activity with half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) values in the low micromolar range against a set of four human cancer cell lines. In studies on the uptake and localization of the compounds in cancer cells by X-ray fluorescence microscopy, the Ru and Os derivatives were shown to accumulate in the cytoplasmic region of treated cells. In an attempt to tie the localization of the compounds to the inhibition of the tentative target TrxR, it was surprisingly found that only the Rh complexes showed significant inhibitory activity at IC50 values of similar to 1 mu M, independent of the substituents on the NHC ligand. This indicates that, although TrxR may be a potential target for anticancer metal complexes, it is unlikely the main target or the sole target for the Ru, Os, and Ir compounds described here, and other targets should be considered. In contrast, Rh(Cp*)(NHC)Cl-2 complexes may be a scaffold for the development of TrxR inhibitors.
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