Platinum-based drugs in cancer treatment: Expanding horizons and overcoming resistance

M Shahlaei, SM Asl, A Derakhshani, L Kurek… - Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
Platinum-based drugs have maintained their preeminent position in cancer treatment
regimens even four decades after the approval of cisplatin. Although these agents have …

Estimation of high-order aberrations and anisotropic magnification from cryo-EM data sets in RELION-3.1

J Zivanov, T Nakane, SHW Scheres - IUCrJ, 2020 - journals.iucr.org
Methods are presented that detect three types of aberrations in single-particle cryo-EM data
sets: symmetrical and antisymmetrical optical aberrations and magnification anisotropy …

New tools for automated high-resolution cryo-EM structure determination in RELION-3

J Zivanov, T Nakane, BO Forsberg, D Kimanius… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Here, we describe the third major release of RELION. CPU-based vector acceleration has
been added in addition to GPU support, which provides flexibility in use of resources and …

Ferritin-based anticancer metallodrug delivery: Crystallographic, analytical and cytotoxicity studies

DM Monti, G Ferraro, A Merlino - Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology …, 2019 - Elsevier
The encapsulation of anticancer metal-based drugs within a protein nanocage represents a
valuable strategy to improve the efficacy and selectivity of these compounds towards cancer …

Ferritin nanocomposites for the selective delivery of photosensitizing ruthenium-polypyridyl compounds to cancer cells

L Conti, S Ciambellotti, GE Giacomazzo… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Herein, we report on the successful encapsulation into human H-ferritin of two highly
charged Ru (II) polypyridyl complexes,[Ru (phen) 2L′] 2+(Ru1, with L′= 4, 4′-(2, 5, 8, 11 …

Protein metalation by metal-based drugs: X-ray crystallography and mass spectrometry studies

L Messori, A Merlino - Chemical Communications, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The combined use of X-ray crystallography and mass spectrometry represents a valuable
strategy to investigate and characterize protein metalation induced by anticancer metal …

A critical review of ferritin as a drug nanocarrier: Structure, properties, comparative advantages and challenges

S Yin, K Davey, S Dai, Y Liu, J Bi - Particuology, 2022 - Elsevier
Ferritin stores and releases iron ions in mammals. It is globally important as a drug
nanocarrier. This is because of its unique hollow-spherical structure, desirable stability and …

Validation and applications of protein–ligand docking approaches improved for metalloligands with multiple vacant sites

G Sciortino, E Garribba, JD Marechal - Inorganic chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Decoding the interaction between coordination compounds and proteins is of fundamental
importance in biology, pharmacy, and medicine. In this context, protein–ligand docking …

[HTML][HTML] Bioactive Molecules Delivery through Ferritin Nanoparticles: Sum Up of Current Loading Methods

R Lucignano, G Ferraro - Molecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
Ferritin (Ft) is a protein with a peculiar three-dimensional architecture. It is characterized by a
hollow cage structure and is responsible for iron storage and detoxification in almost all …

Structure-Guided Design of Ferritin–Platinum Prodrugs for Targeted Therapy of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

B Jiang, X Chen, S Wang, S Wang, S Ma, Y Lu, L Ma… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Due to its intrinsic tumor-targeting attribute, limited immunogenicity, and cage architecture,
ferritin emerges as a highly promising nanocarrier for targeted drug delivery. In the effort to …