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SUBMITTER: Cvek B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2574941 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cvek Boris B Milacic Vesna V Taraba Jan J Dou Q Ping QP
Journal of medicinal chemistry 20080925 20
A series of three complexes with diethyldithiocarbamate ligand and three different metals (Ni, Cu, Zn) was prepared, confirmed by X-ray crystallography, and tested in human breast cancer MDA-MB-231 cells. Zinc and copper complexes, but not nickel complex, were found to be more active against cellular 26S proteasome than against purified 20S proteasome core particle. One of the possible explanations is inhibition of JAMM domain in the 19S proteasome lid. ...[more]