Department of Chemistry, Bard College, 30 Campus Road, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504, USA.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 Aug 21;54(65):8987-8990. doi: 10.1039/c8cc02131g. Epub 2018 Jun 28.
IT127 is a dinuclear transition metal complex that contains a Pt(ii) and a Ru(iii) metal center. We have shown that IT127 is significantly more effective in binding the 29-base sarcin ricin loop (SRL) RNA in comparison to Cisplatin, a hallmark anticancer agent. Binding site analysis shows that IT127 prefers purine bases and the GAGA tetraloop region of SRL RNA. Our results with a dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) model system reveal that IT127 binding to mRNA reduces translation of DHFR enzyme and that the Ru(iii) and Pt(ii) centers in IT127 appear to work in a synergistic manner.
IT127 是一个双核过渡金属配合物,包含一个 Pt(ii) 和一个 Ru(iii) 金属中心。我们已经表明,与标志性的抗癌药物顺铂相比,IT127 更有效地结合 29 个碱基的 Sarcin Ricin 环(SRL)RNA。结合位点分析表明,IT127 更喜欢嘌呤碱基和 SRL RNA 的 GAGA 四链环区域。我们在二氢叶酸还原酶(DHFR)模型系统中的研究结果表明,IT127 与 mRNA 的结合降低了 DHFR 酶的翻译,并且 IT127 中的 Ru(iii) 和 Pt(ii) 中心似乎以协同方式发挥作用。