期刊
MOLECULES
卷 28, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules28062800
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ruthenium(III) complexes; anticancer drugs; liposomes; serum proteins; interactions
Ruthenium(III) complexes show promise as metal-based anticancer drugs. This study investigates the interaction of a Ru(III) complex embedded in a liposomal nanosystem with human serum proteins HSA and hTf, using fluorescence spectroscopy and circular dichroism. The results suggest that the nanosystem can interact with the serum proteins without affecting their secondary structures.
Ruthenium(III) complexes are very promising candidates as metal-based anticancer drugs, and several studies have supported the likely role of human serum proteins in the transport and selective delivery of Ru(III)-based compounds to tumor cells. Herein, the anticancer nanosystem composed of an amphiphilic nucleolipid incorporating a Ru(III) complex, which we named DoHuRu, embedded into the biocompatible cationic lipid DOTAP, was investigated as to its interaction with two human serum proteins thought to be involved in the mechanism of action of Ru(III)-based anticancer drugs, i.e., human serum albumin (HSA) and human transferrin (hTf). This nanosystem was studied in comparison with the simple Ru(III) complex named AziRu, a low molecular weight metal complex previously designed as an analogue of NAMI-A, decorated with the same ruthenium ligands as DoHuRu but devoid of the nucleolipid scaffold and not inserted in liposomal formulations. For this study, different spectroscopic techniques, i.e., Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Circular Dichroism (CD), were exploited, showing that DoHuRu/DOTAP liposomes can interact with both serum proteins without affecting their secondary structures.
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