Using titanium complexes to defeat cancer: the view from the shoulders of titans

When the first titanium complex with anticancer activity was identified in the 1970s, it was attractive, based on the presence of the dichloride unit in TiCl2Cp2 (Cp = η-C5H5)2, to assume its mode of biological action was closely aligned with cisplatin [cis-PtCl2(NH3)2]. Over the intervening 40 year...

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Main Authors: Cini, Melchoir, Bradshaw, Tracey D., Woodward, Simon
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Published: Royal Society of Chemistry 2017
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40186/
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Bradshaw, Tracey D.
Woodward, Simon
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description When the first titanium complex with anticancer activity was identified in the 1970s, it was attractive, based on the presence of the dichloride unit in TiCl2Cp2 (Cp = η-C5H5)2, to assume its mode of biological action was closely aligned with cisplatin [cis-PtCl2(NH3)2]. Over the intervening 40 years however a far more complicated picture has arisen indicating multiple cellular mechanisms of cellular action can be triggered by titanium anti-cancer agents. This tutorial review aims to unpick the historical data and provide new researchers, without an explicit cancer biology background, a contemporary interpretation of both older and newer literature and to review the best techniques for attaining the identities of the biologically active titanium species and how these interact with the cancer cellular machinery.
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spelling nottingham-401862020-05-04T18:29:24Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40186/ Using titanium complexes to defeat cancer: the view from the shoulders of titans Cini, Melchoir Bradshaw, Tracey D. Woodward, Simon When the first titanium complex with anticancer activity was identified in the 1970s, it was attractive, based on the presence of the dichloride unit in TiCl2Cp2 (Cp = η-C5H5)2, to assume its mode of biological action was closely aligned with cisplatin [cis-PtCl2(NH3)2]. Over the intervening 40 years however a far more complicated picture has arisen indicating multiple cellular mechanisms of cellular action can be triggered by titanium anti-cancer agents. This tutorial review aims to unpick the historical data and provide new researchers, without an explicit cancer biology background, a contemporary interpretation of both older and newer literature and to review the best techniques for attaining the identities of the biologically active titanium species and how these interact with the cancer cellular machinery. Royal Society of Chemistry 2017-01-26 Article PeerReviewed Cini, Melchoir, Bradshaw, Tracey D. and Woodward, Simon (2017) Using titanium complexes to defeat cancer: the view from the shoulders of titans. Chemical Society Reviews . ISSN 1460-4744 http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2017/CS/C6CS00860G#!divAbstract doi:10.1039/C6CS00860G doi:10.1039/C6CS00860G
spellingShingle Cini, Melchoir
Bradshaw, Tracey D.
Woodward, Simon
Using titanium complexes to defeat cancer: the view from the shoulders of titans
title Using titanium complexes to defeat cancer: the view from the shoulders of titans
title_full Using titanium complexes to defeat cancer: the view from the shoulders of titans
title_fullStr Using titanium complexes to defeat cancer: the view from the shoulders of titans
title_full_unstemmed Using titanium complexes to defeat cancer: the view from the shoulders of titans
title_short Using titanium complexes to defeat cancer: the view from the shoulders of titans
title_sort using titanium complexes to defeat cancer: the view from the shoulders of titans
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