Abstract
The activation mechanisms and reactivity of ruthenium metallo-prodrug lead structures were investigated in detail using capillary zone electrophoresis mass spectrometry (CZE–MS) in a time-dependent manner and by exposing to a protein/oligonucleotide mixture. The competitive assays were performed with sodium trans-[RuCl4(HInd)2] where Hind = indazole (NKP-1339), [(η6-p-cymene)RuCl2(pta)], where pta = 1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane (RAPTA-C) and [(η6-biphenyl)RuCl(1,2-ethylenediamine)]PF6 (RM175). Molecular and quantitative information on binding preferences was obtained by coupling CZE to electrospray ionization MS (ESI-MS) and inductively coupled plasma MS (ICP-MS), respectively. A score system is presented that ranks the binding preferences of Ru complexes with nucleotides and demonstrated the following trend of decreasing selectivity after 24 h: RM175 (0.89) > RAPTA-C (0.78) > NKP-1339 (0.40). As expected, the organometallic drug candidates RM175 and RAPTA-C underwent a halido/aqua ligand exchange reaction at the metal center and showed distinct reactivity towards the biomolecules. In particular, the protein/DNA binding sites of RAPTA-C in a mixture of protein (ubiquitin) and oligonucleotide (5′-dATTGGCAC-3′) were located at single-amino acid and single-nucleotide resolution, respectively. Activated RAPTA-C bound selectively to Met1, adenine and cytosine in this setting, which contrasts with the selectivity of RM175 for guanine. Finally, activation products of NKP-1339 were detected corresponding to RuII(Hind)2 fragments coordinated to the oligonucleotide, which represents one of the few examples of a directly observed RuII adduct.
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