Comment on “Delivering a photosensitive transplatin prodrug to overcome cisplatin drug resistance” by H. Song, W. Li, R. Qi, L. Yan, X. Jing, M. Zheng and H. Xiao, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 11493

Transplatin is cytotoxic when irradiated by UVA light, but does not isomerize in cisplatin.

Polyclonal antibodies elicited against trans-diamminedichloroplatinum(II)-modified DNA and their application in nonradioactive hybridization experiments

Polyclonal antibodies that bind selectively to adducts formed with DNA by chemotherapeutically inactive trans-diamminedichloroplatinum (II) [trans-[Pt(NH3)2Cl2]) were produced by immunization with calf-thymus double-helical DNA modified by trans-[Pt(NH3)2Cl2] at a ratio of bound platinum/nucleotide (rb) of 0.1. High selectivity was obtained by separation of the antibodies from the antiserum with the aid of affinity chromatography on a Sepharose column. The antibodies were competitively inhibited in an ELISA assay by 25 pM trans-[Pt(NH3)2Cl2] bound to double-helical DNA and 2.5 pM trans-[Pt(NH3)2Cl2] bound to denatured DNA (rb = 0.1). The conversion of monofunctional adducts, formed on DNA at the early stage of its interaction with trans-[Pt(NH3)2Cl2], to bifunctional lesions, decreased the ability of the modified DNA to competitively inhibit these antibodies. They did not cross-react with unmodified, denatured DNA, but they reacted with diethylenetriamine-chloroplatinum(II)-chloride-modified double-helical DNA and with double-helical DNA treated with cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) for a short time (10 min). The results of this work best fit a model in which one of the major antigenic determinants of double-helical DNA modified by trans-[Pt(NH3)2Cl2] is the platinum atom coordinated in a monodentate or bidentate manner with non-paired nucleotide residues or perhaps a short segment of single-stranded DNA which occurs around the platination site. Nucleic acids modified by trans-[Pt(NH3)2Cl2] can be used as immuno-probes in hybridization experiments.

[Detection of hybridization probes using antibodies to DNA adducts with cis- and trans-diaminodichloroplatinum (II). I. Immunochemical characteristics of DNA modified by cis- and trans-diaminodichloroplatinum (II)]

Rabbit antisera elicited against calf thymus DNA modified cis- and trans-diaminedichlorplatinum II (DDP) [Pt/nucleotide ratio - 0.1] contain antibodies specific for Pt-modified DNA immunogen. A specific antibody against DNA-cisDDP and DNA-transDDP was obtained by affinity chromatography. In the ELISA, 3.10(-1 6) mol Pt per micrograms DNA was determined. The epitope structure was determined by using DNA modified with cisDDP and transDDP.