Copper(II) cation and bathophenanthroline coordination enhance therapeutic effects of naringenin against lung tumor cells.

Biometals

Centro de Química Inorgánica (CEQUINOR, UNLP, CONICET, asociado a CICPBA), Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Bv. 120 N° 1465 La Plata, CP 1900, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Published: October 2022

The development of new anticancer compounds is one of the challenges of bioinorganic and medicinal chemistry. Naringenin and its metal complexes have been recognized as promising inhibitors of cell proliferation, having enormous potential to act as an antioxidant and antitumorigenic agent. Lung cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed type of cancer. Therefore, this study is devoted to investigate the effects of Cu(II), naringenin (Nar), binary Cu(II)-naringenin complex (CuNar), and the Cu(II)-naringenin containing bathophenanthroline as an auxiliary ligand (CuNarBatho) on adenocarcinoma human alveolar basal epithelial cells (A549 cells) that are used as models for the study of drug therapies against lung cancer. The ternary complex shows selectivity being high cytotoxic against malignant cells. The cell death generated by CuNarBatho involves ROS production, loss of mitochondrial membrane potential, and depletion of GSH level and GSH/GSSG ratio. The structure-relationship activity was assessed by comparison with the reported Cu(II)-naringenin-phenanthroline complex. The CuNarBatho complex was synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, molar conductivity, mass spectrometry, thermogravimetric measurements and UV-VIS, FT-IR, EPR, Raman and H-NMR spectroscopies. In addition, the binding to bovine serum albumin (BSA) was studied at the physiological conditions (pH = 7.4) by fluorescence spectroscopy.

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