Exploring the Potential of Metal-Based Candidate Drugs as Modulators of the Cytoskeleton.

ABSTRACT: During recent years, accumulating evidence suggested that metal-based candidate drugs are promising modulators of cytoskeletal and cytoskeleton-associated proteins. This was substantiated by the identification and validation of actin, vimentin and plectin as targets of distinct ruthenium(II)- and platinum(II)-based modulators. Despite this, structural information about molecular interaction is scarcely available. Here, we compile the scattered reports about metal-based candidate molecules that influence the cytoskeleton, its associated proteins and explore their potential to interfere in cancer-related processes, including proliferation, invasion and the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. Advances in this field depend crucially on determining binding sites and on gaining comprehensive i

SUBMITTER: Borutzki Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10946712 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature