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Anticancer Ruthenium(η6-p-cymene) Complexes of Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug Derivatives (2014)
Journal Article
Aman, F., Hanif, M., Siddiqui, W. A., Ashraf, A., Filak, L. K., Reynisson, J., …Hartinger, C. G. (2014). Anticancer Ruthenium(η6-p-cymene) Complexes of Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug Derivatives. Organometallics, 33(19), 5546-5553. https://doi.org/10.1021/om500825h

Oxicams are a versatile family of heterocyclic compounds, and the two representatives meloxicam and piroxicam are widely used drugs for the treatment of a variety of inflammatory and rheumatic diseases in humans. As cancer-associated inflammation is... Read More about Anticancer Ruthenium(η6-p-cymene) Complexes of Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug Derivatives.

Fragmentation of the quinoxaline N-oxide bond to the ˙OH radical upon one-electron bioreduction (2014)
Journal Article
Yadav, P., Marshall, A. J., Reynisson, J., Denny, W. A., Hay, M. P., & Anderson, R. F. (in press). Fragmentation of the quinoxaline N-oxide bond to the ˙OH radical upon one-electron bioreduction. Chemical Communications, 50(89), 13729-13731. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4cc05657d

The ˙OH radical is released from 3-trifluoromethyl-quinoxaline 1,4-dioxides upon one-electron reduction by cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase. This process effectively competes with back oxidation of the intermediate radical anion by oxygen and underlies... Read More about Fragmentation of the quinoxaline N-oxide bond to the ˙OH radical upon one-electron bioreduction.

Synthesis and cytotoxicity of thieno[2,3-b]pyridine and furo[2,3-b]pyridine derivatives (2014)
Journal Article
Hung, J. M., Arabshahi, H. J., Leung, E., Reynisson, J., & Barker, D. (2014). Synthesis and cytotoxicity of thieno[2,3-b]pyridine and furo[2,3-b]pyridine derivatives. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 86, 420-437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmech.2014.09.001

Forty seven thieno[2,3-b]pyridines-2-carboxamides, furo[2,3-b]pyridines-2-carboxamides and tetrahydrothieno[2,3-b]quinolones-2-carboxamides derivatives were synthesized and tested for their antiproliferative activity against the NCI-60 cell lines. Th... Read More about Synthesis and cytotoxicity of thieno[2,3-b]pyridine and furo[2,3-b]pyridine derivatives.

The effect of a phospholipase C gamma inhibitor on the proliferation and phenotype of Du145 prostate cancer cells (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Muzinic, N. R., Mastelic, A., Markotic, A., Culic, V. C., Ross, A., Vuica-Ross, M., …Reynisson, J. (2014, August). The effect of a phospholipase C gamma inhibitor on the proliferation and phenotype of Du145 prostate cancer cells. Poster presented at FEBS EMBO 2014 Conference, Paris, France

Introduction: Prostate cancer remains the second most common cause of cancer related death among men, highlighting the need for new therapies. Many cancer cellular functions have been dis-covered to be regulated by phospholipase C (PLC) gamma activat... Read More about The effect of a phospholipase C gamma inhibitor on the proliferation and phenotype of Du145 prostate cancer cells.

Sorption and biodegradation of organic micropollutants during river bank filtration: A laboratory column study (2014)
Journal Article
Bertelkamp, C., Reungoat, J., Cornelissen, E., Singhal, N., Reynisson, J., Cabo, A., …Verliefde, A. (2014). Sorption and biodegradation of organic micropollutants during river bank filtration: A laboratory column study. Water Research, 52, 231-241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2013.10.068

This study investigated sorption and biodegradation behaviour of 14 organic micropollutants (OMP) in soil columns representative of the first metre (oxic conditions) of the river bank filtration (RBF) process. Breakthrough curves were modelled to dif... Read More about Sorption and biodegradation of organic micropollutants during river bank filtration: A laboratory column study.

Characterisation of radicals formed by the triazine 1,4-dioxide hypoxia-activated prodrug, SN30000 (2014)
Journal Article
Anderson, R. F., Yadav, P., Patel, D., Reynisson, J., Tipparaju, S. R., Guise, C. P., …Hay, M. P. (in press). Characterisation of radicals formed by the triazine 1,4-dioxide hypoxia-activated prodrug, SN30000. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 12(21), 3386-3392. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ob00236a

The radical species underlying the activity of the bioreductive anticancer prodrug, SN30000, have been identified by electron paramagnetic resonance and pulse radiolysis techniques. Spin-trapping experiments indicate both an aryl-type radical and an... Read More about Characterisation of radicals formed by the triazine 1,4-dioxide hypoxia-activated prodrug, SN30000.

The development of thieno[2,3-b]pyridine analogues as anticancer agents applying in silico methods (2013)
Journal Article
Arabshahi, H. J., Leung, E., Barker, D., & Reynisson, J. (2014). The development of thieno[2,3-b]pyridine analogues as anticancer agents applying in silico methods. MedChemComm, 5(2), 186. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3md00320e

The chemical space surrounding a class of thieno[2,3-b]pyridines was investigated by testing their commercially available derivatives against the NCI60 panel of human tumour cell lines. The results from the nineteen analogues revealed that ortho- and... Read More about The development of thieno[2,3-b]pyridine analogues as anticancer agents applying in silico methods.

The effect of a thieno[2,3-b]pyridine PLC-γ inhibitor on the proliferation, morphology, migration and cell cycle of breast cancer cells (2013)
Journal Article
Leung, E., Hung, J. M., Barker, D., & Reynisson, J. (in press). The effect of a thieno[2,3-b]pyridine PLC-γ inhibitor on the proliferation, morphology, migration and cell cycle of breast cancer cells. MedChemComm, 5(1), 99-106. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3md00290j

3-Amino-N-(3-chlorophenyl)-5-oxo-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrothieno[2,3-b]quinoline-2-carboxamide (compound 1) is a putative phosphoinositide specific-phospholipase C-γ (PLC-γ) enzyme inhibitor. This enzyme is a plausible anticancer target linked to cell motil... Read More about The effect of a thieno[2,3-b]pyridine PLC-γ inhibitor on the proliferation, morphology, migration and cell cycle of breast cancer cells.

A new precursor for conducting polymer-based brush interfaces with electroactivity in aqueous solution (2012)
Journal Article
Strover, L. T., Malmström, J., Laita, O., Reynisson, J., Aydemir, N., Nieuwoudt, M. K., …Travas-Sejdic, J. (2013). A new precursor for conducting polymer-based brush interfaces with electroactivity in aqueous solution. Polymer, 54(4), 1305-1317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2012.11.083

We present the synthesis of a novel conducting polymer (CP) incorporating both pyrrole and thiophene units in its monomer, which is also substituted with an initiator for grafting of sidechains by atom-transfer radical polymerisation (ATRP). The prec... Read More about A new precursor for conducting polymer-based brush interfaces with electroactivity in aqueous solution.

DNA adduct formation of mitomycin C. A test case for DFT calculations on model systems (2012)
Journal Article
Hume, P. A., Brimble, M. A., & Reynisson, J. (2013). DNA adduct formation of mitomycin C. A test case for DFT calculations on model systems. Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 1005, 9-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comptc.2012.10.022

Mitomycin C is a DNA alkylating agent activated by bioreduction. It has been in clinical use against a range of solid tumours since the 1960s. Its DNA adduct formation mechanism has been extensively studied and it therefore presents an excellent test... Read More about DNA adduct formation of mitomycin C. A test case for DFT calculations on model systems.