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H I T S  on anticancer metal-based compound discovery

Ruthenium-Based Staurosporine Mimics with Anticancer Activity

by E. Meggers, G. E. Atilla-Gokcumen, H. Bregman, J. Maksimoska, S. P. Mulcahy, N. Pagano, D. S. Williams, Synlett 2007, 1177-1189. K. S.M. Smalley, R. Contractor, N. K. Haass, A. N. Kulp, G. E. Atilla-Gokcumen, D. S. Williams, H. Bregman, K. T. Flaherty, M. S. Soengas, E. Meggers, M. Herlyn, Cancer Research 2007, 67, 209-217.

Meggers Laboratory at the Phillips-University of Marburg (Germany)


  • Organoruthenium complexes which mimic the structure and function of the natural product staurosporine.
  • Binding to the ATP binding site of protein kinases has been verfied by protein crystallography.
  • Some compounds exert strong apoptotic activities in several cancer cell lines. Indications for blocking the interaction between MDM2 and p53 through inhibition of GSK-3ß.


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