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  2. Paraptotic Cell Death as an Unprecedented Mode of Action Observed for New Bipyridine-Silver(I) Compounds Bearing Phosphane Coligands

Paraptotic Cell Death as an Unprecedented Mode of Action Observed for New Bipyridine-Silver(I) Compounds Bearing Phosphane Coligands

  • J Med Chem. 2024 Feb 24. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.3c01036.
Ricardo G Teixeira 1 Alessia Stefanelli 2 Adhan Pilon 1 Rebecca Warmers 2 Xavier Fontrodona 3 Isabel Romero 3 Paulo J Costa 4 Maria J Villa de Brito 1 Xenia Hudec 2 Christine Pirker 2 Sebastian Türck 5 Alexandra M M Antunes 6 Christian R Kowol 7 Ingo Ott 5 Anamaria Brozovic 8 Andy Sombke 9 Margret Eckhard 9 Ana Isabel Tomaz 1 Petra Heffeter 2 Andreia Valente 1
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Centro de Química Estrutural, Institute of Molecular Sciences, Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, Lisboa 1749-016, Portugal.
  • 2 Center for Cancer Research and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna 1090, Austria.
  • 3 Departament de Química and Serveis Tècnics de Recerca, Universitat de Girona, Campus de Montilivi, Girona 17071, Spain.
  • 4 BioISI - Instituto de Biosistemas e Ciências Integrativas, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa 1749-016, Portugal.
  • 5 Institute of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Beethovenstr. 55, Braunschweig 38106, Germany.
  • 6 Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE), Institute of Molecular Sciences, Departamento de Engenharia Química, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, Av Rovisco Pais 1, Lisboa 1049-001, Portugal.
  • 7 Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Waehringerstrasse 42, Vienna 1090, Austria.
  • 8 Division of Molecular Biology, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička cesta 54,Zagreb 10000, Croatia.
  • 9 Center for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Cell and Developmental Biology, Medical University of Vienna, Schwarzspanierstraße 17, Vienna 1090, Austria.
Abstract

In this work, we investigated the Anticancer activity of several novel silver(I) 2,2'-bipyridine complexes containing either triphenylphosphane (PPh3) or 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane (dppe) ligands. All compounds were characterized by diverse analytical methods including ESI-MS spectrometry; NMR, UV-vis, and FTIR spectroscopies; and elemental analysis. Moreover, several compounds were also studied by X-ray single-crystal diffraction. Subsequently, the compounds were investigated for their Anticancer activity against drug-resistant and -sensitive Cancer cells. Noteworthily, neither carboplatin and oxaliplatin resistance nor p53 deletion impacted on their Anticancer efficacy. MES-OV cells displayed exceptional hypersensitivity to the dppe-containing drugs. This effect was not based on thioredoxin reductase inhibition, enhanced drug uptake, or Apoptosis induction. In contrast, dppe silver drugs induced Paraptosis, a novel recently described form of programmed cell death. Together with the good tumor specificity of this compound's class, this work suggests that dppe-containing silver complexes could be interesting drug candidates for the treatment of resistant ovarian Cancer.

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