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SUBMITTER: Ramirez-Palma LG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8510402 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ramírez-Palma Lillian G LG Espinoza-Guillén Adrián A Nieto-Camacho Fabiola F López-Guerra Alexis E AE Gómez-Vidales Virginia V Cortés-Guzmán Fernando F Ruiz-Azuara Lena L
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20210922 19
A strategy to improve the cancer therapies involves agents that cause the depletion of the endogenous antioxidant glutathione (GSH), increasing its efflux out of cells and inducing apoptosis in tumoral cells due to the presence of reactive oxygen species. It has been shown that Casiopeina copper complexes caused a dramatic intracellular GSH drop, forming disulfide bonds and reducing Cu<sup>II</sup> to Cu<sup>I</sup>. Herein, through the determination of the [Cu<sup>II</sup>]-SH bond before reduc ...[more]