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Volume 2 |Article ID 345204 | https://doi.org/10.1155/MBD.1995.111

Susan J. Berners-Price, Doreen C. Collier, Muhammed A. Mazid, Peter J. Sadler, Rodney E. Sue, David Wilkie, "[Ag(I)(Et2PCH2CH2PPh2)2]NO3: An Antimitochondrial Silver Complex", Metal-Based Drugs, vol. 2, Article ID 345204, 12 pages, 1995. https://doi.org/10.1155/MBD.1995.111

[Ag(I)(Et2PCH2CH2PPh2)2]NO3: An Antimitochondrial Silver Complex

Susan J. Berners-Price,1 Doreen C. Collier,2 Muhammed A. Mazid,3 Peter J. Sadler,4 Rodney E. Sue,4 and David Wilkie2

1School of Science, Griffith University, Australia

2Department of Biology, University College, Gower St., United Kingdom

3School of Chemistry and Applied Chemistry, University of Wales, College of Cardiff, United Kingdom

4Department of Chemistry, Birkbeck College, 29 Gordon Sq., United Kingdom

Received01 Dec 1994
Accepted06 Jan 1995

Abstract

The silver(I) complex [Ag(eppe)2]NO3 (eppe = Et2PCH2CH2PPh2) is shown by X-ray crystallography to be tetrahedral with Ag - PEt2 and Ag - P Ph2 bond lengths of 2.482 and 2.518 Å, respectively. The complex is selectively antimitochondrial and inhibits the growth of a number of yeast strains in non-fermentable media at concentrations as low as 2.5 μΜ and induces the mitochondrial mutation petite The effect is largely reversed by the presence of aspirin. The complex is shown to be stable in the cell culture media and in the presence of glutathione, but readily reacts with disulfides of oxidized glutathione and serum albumin. Surprisingly, neither [Au(eppe)2]Cl nor [Au(dppe)2]Cl (dppe = Ph2PCH2CH2PPh2) showed any mitochondrial selectivity in the same screening protocol.

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