Estudo do potencial citotóxico, genotóxico e do mecanismo de morte celular de complexos de rutênio (II) em células de Sarcoma 180
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2014-03-12
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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It is estimated that 27 million new cancer cases will occur in the world until 2030. Due to this high number of cases, researches for new chemotherapeutic agents that are efficient for the malignant neoplastic disease treatment have intensified. Ruthenium complexes have been highlighted from those metal complexes that are being contemplated for the cancer treatment, because they exhibit the characteristics of selectivity for tumor cells and thus be less toxic to normal cells. Consequently, we evaluated the cytotoxic potential of six new complexes of ruthenium (II) and two of those with promising activity were selected to assess the genotoxic potential, the mechanism of death and interference on cell cycle dynamics. The cytotoxicity of these complexes was evaluated by MTT assay showing that for all six ruthenium complexes there was a reduction of viability of the tumor cells K562 and S-180 at low concentrations and cytotoxicity at higher concentrations to normal cells L-929 and lymphocyte. The ruthenium II complexes Ru 05 and Ru 08 got the best resolutions in the MTT assay and were selected for testing genotoxicity and mechanism of death. Data indicate that the Ru 05 and 08 induced changes in cell cycle through test performed by flow cytometry, increasing the number of cells in G0/G1 phase and decreasing into the synthesis phase at 24 and 48 hours of exposure. For the complex Ru 05 there was an increase in the number of cells in sub-G1 phase, which is indicative of apoptosis and cell damage, yet, neither the complex Ru 05 nor the Ru 08 showed significant DNA damage in the Comet assay during 24 and 48 hours. Both complexes increased the number of positive cells for Annexin-V, however the complex Ru 05 had induced changes in mitochondrial membrane potential, increased expression of the gene Bax, Tp53 and Caspase 9 and decreased the amount of active anti-apoptotic Bcl2 protein in the S-180 cells, leading to a reasonable supposes that this complex may cause the triggering of the cell death by apoptosis through intrinsic caspase-dependent manner. On the other hand, the complex Ru 08 did not statistically alter the mitochondrial membrane potential. Ru 08 increased the gene expression of Caspase 3, 8, 9 and Tp53 and the amount of active Caspase-3 protein in the S-180 treated cells, and decreased the amount of anti-apoptotic Bcl2 protein, which allows inferring that this complex may be acting by the extrinsic pathway. Despite the new ruthenium complexes studied have shown a promising future as
chemotherapy for cancer treatment, other specific markers are needed to understand the cascade of events which the extrinsic apoptosis pathway is being triggered, elucidating the mechanism of action in S-180 cell line.
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PIRES, W. C. Estudo do potencial citotóxico, genotóxico e do mecanismo de morte celular de complexos de rutênio (II) em células de Sarcoma 180. 2014. 112 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências Farmacêuticas) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2014.