The gold complex auranofin: new perspectives for cancer therapy

FH Abdalbari, CM Telleria - Discover Oncology, 2021 - Springer
Advanced stages of cancer are highly associated with short overall survival in patients due
to the lack of long-term treatment options following the standard form of care. New options …

Anticancer activity of metal complexes: involvement of redox processes

U Jungwirth, CR Kowol, BK Keppler, CG Hartinger… - 2011 - liebertpub.com
Cells require tight regulation of the intracellular redox balance and consequently of reactive
oxygen species for proper redox signaling and maintenance of metal (eg, of iron and …

Upgrade of an old drug: Auranofin in innovative cancer therapies to overcome drug resistance and to increase drug effectiveness

T Gamberi, G Chiappetta, T Fiaschi… - Medicinal Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Auranofin is an oral gold (I) compound, initially developed for the treatment of rheumatoid
arthritis. Currently, Auranofin is under investigation for oncological application within a drug …

Benzimidazol-2-ylidene gold (I) complexes are thioredoxin reductase inhibitors with multiple antitumor properties

R Rubbiani, I Kitanovic, H Alborzinia… - Journal of medicinal …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Gold (I) complexes such as auranofin have been used for decades to treat symptoms of
rheumatoid arthritis and have also demonstrated a considerable potential as new anticancer …

Gold (III) complexes for antitumor applications: an overview

B Bertrand, MRM Williams… - Chemistry–A European …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Gold (III) complexes have emerged as a versatile and effective class of metal‐based
anticancer agents. The development of various types of ligands capable of stabilizing the …

Advances in alkynyl gold complexes for use as potential anticancer agents

Z Yang, G Jiang, Z Xu, S Zhao, W Liu - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Gold-based anticancer agents have gained the widespread attention of medicinal inorganic
chemists due to their unique chemical properties and strong antiproliferative potency …

Reactions of medicinal gold (III) compounds with proteins and peptides explored by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and complementary biophysical …

L Massai, C Zoppi, D Cirri, A Pratesi… - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI MS) is a powerful investigative tool to
analyze the reactions of metallodrugs with proteins and peptides and characterize the …

Heterometallic titanium–gold complexes inhibit renal cancer cells in vitro and in vivo

J Fernández-Gallardo, BT Elie, T Sadhukha… - Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Following recent work on heterometallic titanocene–gold complexes as potential
chemotherapeutics for renal cancer, we report here on the synthesis, characterization and …

Protein metalation by medicinal gold compounds: identification of the main features of the metalation process through ESI MS experiments

A Geri, L Massai, L Messori - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Gold compounds form a new class of promising anticancer agents with innovative modes of
action. It is generally believed that anticancer gold compounds, at variance with clinically …

An organometallic gold (I) bis‐N‐heterocyclic carbene complex with multimodal activity in ovarian cancer cells

SM Meier‐Menches, B Neuditschko… - … A European Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The organometallic AuI bis‐N‐heterocyclic carbene complex [Au (9‐methylcaffeine‐8‐
ylidene) 2]+(AuTMX2) was previously shown to selectively and potently stabilise telomeric …