The iron environment in heme and heme-antimalarial complexes of pharmacological interest
The iron environment in heme and heme-antimalarial complexes of pharmacological interest
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DOI:
10.1016/0162-0134(95)00212-x
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发表时间:
1996-07-01
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Silver, J
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作者:
Adams, PA;Berman, PAM;Silver, J
Mossbauer spectroscopy has been utilized to probe the electronic environment of iron in a number of Ferriprotoporphyrin IX complexes of relevance to malaria. The markedly different iron environments found for the complexes of hemin with quinine, chloroquine, and the Chinese herbal antimalarial artesunate suggest that these compounds act by protecting the heme from polymerization to insoluble hemozoin, and by facilitating the transport of the protected heme to the food vacuole membrane where it is able to exercise its cytotoxic redox catalytic activity. Mossbauer parameters determined here for purified malaria pigment and synthetic beta-hematin confirm the chemical identical-ness of these species. The Mossbauer spectra of the complexes are discussed in light of the proposed structures of the complexes.