Publications by Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel

Varying the metal to ethacrynic acid ratio in ruthenium(ii)/osmium(ii)-p-cymene conjugates

Paul Joseph Dyson, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel, Emilia Paunescu, Mylène Soudani

Following the identification of a ruthenium(II)-arene complex with an ethacrynic acid-modified imidazole ligand, which inhibits glutathione transferase (GST) and is cytotoxic to chemo-resistant cancer cells, a series of structurally related ruthenium(II)- ...

Elsevier2017

Anti-angiogenic properties of chlorambucil derivatives with fluorous and hydrocarbon appendages

Paul Joseph Dyson, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel, Emilia Paunescu

Chlorambucil (CLB) derivatives with long fluorous (referred to as 1 and 2) or hydrocarbon (3) chains have been evaluated in a series of in vitro and in vivo assays. In cell viability inhibition assays, both derivatives 2 and 3 show selective cytotoxicity t ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Antiangiogenic and Anticancer Properties of Bifunctional Ruthenium(II)-p-Cymene Complexes: Influence of Pendant Perfluorous Chains

Paul Joseph Dyson, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel, Emilia Paunescu, Marije Trudi Te Winkel

Two bifunctional ruthenium(II)-p-cymene complexes with perfluorinated side chains, attached via pyridine ligands, have been evaluated in a series of in vitro and in vivo assays. Their effects on human endothelial (ECRF24 and HUVEC) cells, noncancerous huma ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Anticancer Organometallic Osmium(II)-p-cymene Complexes

Rosario Scopelliti, Paul Joseph Dyson, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel, Emilia Paunescu

Osmium compounds are attracting increasing attention as potential anticancer drugs. In this context, a series of bifunctional organometallic osmium(II)-p-cymene complexes functionalized with alkyl or perfluoroalkyl groups were prepared and screened for the ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2015

Improved Angiostatic Activity of Dasatinib by Modulation with Hydrophobic Chains

Paul Joseph Dyson, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel, Emilia Paunescu

Dasatinib is an orally active nonselective tyrosine kinase inhibitor used to treat certain types of adult leukemia. By inhibiting PDGFR-beta and SFKs in both tumor cells and tumor associated endothelial cells, dasatinib inhibits tumor growth and angiogenes ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

In vivo evaluation of small-molecule thermoresponsive anticancer drugs potentiated by hyperthermia

Paul Joseph Dyson, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel, Emilia Paunescu

Hyperthermia used as an adjuvant with chemotherapy is highly promising in the treatment of certain cancers. Currently, the small molecule drugs used in combination with hyperthermia were not designed for this application. Herein, we report the evaluation o ...

2015

Modulating the Anticancer Activity of Ruthenium(II)-Arene Complexes

Rosario Scopelliti, Paul Joseph Dyson, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel, Emilia Paunescu

Following the identification of [Ru(eta(6)-p-cymene)Cl-2(1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorodecyl-3-(pyridin-3-yl)propanoate)], a ruthenium(II)arene complex with a perfluoroalkyl-modified ligand that displays remarkable in vitro cancer cell selectivity, a series of stru ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Thermoresponsive fluorinated small-molecule drugs: a new concept for efficient localized chemotherapy

Paul Joseph Dyson, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel, Emilia Paunescu

Hyperthermia is currently being explored as an adjuvant treatment to conventional therapies with chemotherapeutic agents based on thermoresponsive macromolecules. Although the concept of hyperthermia has existed for many years it has yet to become routinel ...

2015

Synthesis, Structure, and Antiproliferative Activity of Ruthenium(II) Arene Complexes with N,O-Chelating Pyrazolone-Based beta-Ketoamine Ligands

Rosario Scopelliti, Paul Joseph Dyson, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel, Agnese Petrini

Novel ruthenium half-sandwich complexes containing (N,O)-bound pyrazolone-based beta-ketoamine ligands have been prepared, and the solid-state structures of one ligand and five complexes have been determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Some of the ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Perfluorinated ruthenium(II) complexes with improved anti-angiogenic or anti-cancer activity

Paul Joseph Dyson, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel, Emilia Paunescu

Springer2014

Ligand substitutions between ruthenium-cymene compounds can control protein versus DNA targeting and anticancer activity

Paul Joseph Dyson, Ursula Röthlisberger, Wee Han Ang, Pablo Campomanes Ramos, Alexey Nazarov, Michael Groessl, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel

Ruthenium compounds have become promising alternatives to platinum drugs by displaying specific activities against different cancers and favourable toxicity and clearance properties. Nonetheless, their molecular targeting and mechanism of action are poorly ...

Nature Research2014

Evaluation of the in vitro anticancer activity of cyclometalated half-sandwich rhodium and iridium complexes coordinated to naphthaldimine-based poly(propyleneimine) dendritic scaffolds

Paul Joseph Dyson, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel, Fabio Edafe

The development of cyclometalated rhodium and iridium complexes from first-and second-generation naphthaldimine-based poly(propyleneimine) dendrimer scaffolds of the type, DAB-(NH2)(n) (where n = 4 or 8, DAB = diaminobutane) has been accomplished. Four met ...

Elsevier Science Sa2014

Thermoresponsive organometallic arene ruthenium complexes for tumour targeting

Paul Joseph Dyson, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel, Emilia Paunescu

Application of mild hyperthermia can increase the cytotoxicity of anticancer drugs in tumour cells. In this report, we describe low molecular weight thermoactive ruthenium-based drugs with fluorous chains that are selectively triggered by mild hyperthermia ...

2014

Rational design of organic and organometallic thermoresponsive or tumor-selective anticancer drugs and their in vitro and in vivo biological evaluation

Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel

Conventional chemotherapy leads to severe side-effects such as nephrotoxicity, nausea and vomiting and fatigue along with drug resistance. Alkylating agents used to treat cancer were even shown to provoke second cancers, often years after the end of chemot ...

EPFL2014

Selenoquinones Stabilized by Ruthenium( II) Arene Complexes: Synthesis, Structure, and Cytotoxicity

Paul Joseph Dyson, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel

A new series of monoselenoquinone and diselenoquinone complexes, [((6)-p-cymene)Ru((4)-C6R4SeE)] (R=H, E=Se (6); R=CH3, E=Se (7); R=H, E=O (8)), as well as selenolate complexes [((6)-p-cymene)Ru((5)-C6H3R2Se)][SbF6] (R=H (9); R=CH3 (10)), stabilized by are ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2014

Discovery of a Highly Tumor-Selective Organometallic Ruthenium(II)-Arene Complex

Rosario Scopelliti, Paul Joseph Dyson, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel, Emilia Paunescu

A ruthenium(II)-arene complex with a perfluoroalkyl-ligand was found to display remarkable selectivity toward cancer cells. IC50 values on several cancer cell lines are in the range of 25-45 mu M, and no cytotoxic effect was observed on nontumorigenic (HEK ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Synthesis, characterisation and in vitro anticancer activity of hexanuclear thiolato-bridged arene ruthenium metallaprisms

Paul Joseph Dyson, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel

Hexanuclear thiolato-bridged arene ruthenium metalla-prisms of the general formula [(p-cymene)6Ru6(SR)6(tpt)2]6+ (R=CH2Ph, CH2C6H4-p-tBu, CH2CH2Ph; tpt=2,4,6-tris(4-pyridyl)-1,3,5-triazine), obtained from the dinuclear precursors [(p-cymene)2Ru2(SR)2Cl2], ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2013

Neutral and cationic multinuclear half-sandwich rhodium and iridium complexes coordinated to poly(propyleneimine) dendritic scaffolds: synthesis and cytotoxicity

Paul Joseph Dyson, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel

2013

Ruthenium(II) arene PTA (RAPTA) complexes: impact of enantiomerically pure arene ligands

Paul Joseph Dyson, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel, Kelly Joan Kilpin, Shona Cammack

Organometallic ruthenium(II) arene complexes containing the PTA ligand ([Ru(eta(6)-arene)Cl-2(PTA)], PTA = 1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphatricyclo-[3.3.1.1] decane, termed RAPTA) show pharmacologically relevant antitumour properties in vitro. Two new enantiomeric p ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Synthesis, characterization and in vitro anticancer activity of highly cytotoxic trithiolato diruthenium complexes of the type [(eta(6)-p-(MeC6H4Pr)-Pr-i)(2)Ru-2(mu(2)-SR1)(2)(mu(2)-SR2)](+) containing different thiolato bridges

Paul Joseph Dyson, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel

A series of cationic dinuclear p-cymene ruthenium complexes containing three thiolato bridges with different substituents at the sulfur atoms, (eta(6)-p-(MeC6H4Pr)-Pr-i)(2)Ru-2(mu(2)-SR1)(2)(mu(2)-SR2) (R-1 = CH2Ph, R-2 = Ph: 4; R-1 = CH2Ph, R-2 = p-( ...

Elsevier2013