Organometallic anti-tumor agents: targeting from biomolecules to dynamic bioprocesses
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Abstract
The great clinical success of cisplatin and its derivatives has convinced people that metal complexes could play a more significant role in human cancer therapy. However, targeting and drug resistance are still two dominant problems that need to be urgently solved for metallodrugs' efficacy and clinical translation. As an important component of metal complexes, organometallics have been experiencing rapid development in recent years. Compared with platinum drugs, emerging anti-tumor organometallics targeting dynamic bioprocesses provide an effective strategy to overcome conventional problems. This review focuses on burgeoning anti-tumor strategies and provides up-to-date advances in anti-tumor organometallics development based on their action mechanisms. Specifically, important tumor-overexpressed proteins and nucleic acids as organometallics' anti-tumor targets are systematically presented, followed by organometallics that exert their anti-tumor activity by perturbing tumor intracellular energy/redox/metal/immune homeostasis. Finally, nine cell death pathways including apoptosis, paraptosis, autophagy, oncosis, necrosis, necroptosis, ferroptosis, pyroptosis, and immunogenic cell death (ICD) that can be induced by organometallics are reviewed, and their morphological and biochemical features are summarised. This review at the interface of chemistry, biology, and medicine aims to enlighten the rational development of organometallic anti-tumor agents.
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