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Inhibition of protein kinases in the fight against disease remains a constant challenge for medicinal chemists, who have screened multitudes of predominantly planar organic scaffolds, natural and synthetic, to identify potent-albeit not always selective-kinase inhibitors. Herein, in an effort to investigate the potential biological utility of metal-based compounds as inhibitors against the cancer-relevant targets mitogen-activated protein kinase and cyclin-dependent kinase 2, we explore various parameters in planar platinum(II) complexes with substituted phenanthroline ligands and aliphatic diamine chelate co-ligands, to identify combinations that yield promising inhibitory activity. The individual ligands' steric requirements as well as their pattern of hydrogen bond donors/acceptors appear to alter inhibitory potency when modulated.Electronic supplementary material
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SUBMITTER: Child ES
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3174280 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Child Emma S ES Georgiades Savvas N SN Rose Kirsten N KN Stafford Verity S VS Patel Chirag B K CB Steinke Joachim H G JH Mann David J DJ Vilar Ramon R
Journal of chemical biology 20110226 4
<h4>Unlabelled</h4>Inhibition of protein kinases in the fight against disease remains a constant challenge for medicinal chemists, who have screened multitudes of predominantly planar organic scaffolds, natural and synthetic, to identify potent-albeit not always selective-kinase inhibitors. Herein, in an effort to investigate the potential biological utility of metal-based compounds as inhibitors against the cancer-relevant targets mitogen-activated protein kinase and cyclin-dependent kinase 2, ...[more]