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Research and Publications

Ongoing projects in Navarro’s group:

  • Design, synthesis, and characterization of coordination compounds as chemotherapeutic agents for the treatment of parasitic diseases and cancer.
  • Study of their bioavailability properties include solubility, stability, lipophilicity, etc.
  • Understand the role of the main and auxiliary ligands, as well of the transition metal ion contained in the designed metallodrug to reach the target, cross the cell membrane, etc.
  • Molecular elucidations of the possible mechanisms of action through identify important biological targets.
  • Evaluation of the catalytic activity of selected bioactive coordination compounds.

 

Recent publications:

1. Wilmer Villarreal, William Castro, Sorenlis González, Marylin Madamet, Rémy Amalvict, Bruno Pradines, Maribel Navarro. Copper (I)-Chloroquine Complexes: Interactions with DNA andFerriprotoporphyrin, Inhibition of β-Hematin Formation and Relation to Antimalarial Activity. Pharmaceuticals 2022, 15, 921. https://doi.org/10.3390/ph15080921

2.  Caroline de Souza Pereira, Helenita Costa Quadros, Samuel Yaw Aboagye, Diana Fontinha, Sarah D’Alessandro, Margaret Elizabeth Byrne, Mathieu Gendrot, Isabelle Fonta, Joel Mosnier, Diogo Rodrigo M. Moreira, Nicoletta Basilico, David L. Williams, Miguel Prudêncio, Bruno Pradines and Maribel Navarro.  A Hybrid of Amodiaquine and Primaquine Linked by Gold(I) Is a Multistage Antimalarial Agent Targeting Heme Detoxification and Thiol Redox Homeostasis. Pharmaceutics, 14, 1251, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics14061251

3. Jose Aleixo de Azevedo França, Emile Barrias, Chris Hebert Jesus Franco, WilmerVillarreal, Eduardo GuimarãesVieira, Ana Maria Da Costa Ferreira, Wanderley de Souza, Maribel Navarro. Promising fluconazole based zinc(II) and copper(II) coordination polymers against Chagas disease. Journal of Bioinorganic Chemistry.  2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2022.111834

4. Camila A. S. R.Conde,  Mauro V. Almeida, Gabrielle S. Silva,  Milena B. P. de A.. Sodre; Juliany C. F. Rodrigues, Maribel Navarro. Synthesis, characterization and antileishmanial activity of copper(II) and zinc(II) complexes with diamine ligands. Transition Metal Chemistry, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11243-022-00495-7

5. Jose Aleixo de Azevedo França, Luana Pereira Borba-Santos, Giovana de Almeida Pimentel, Chris Hebert Jesus Franco, Cassiano Souza, Jaqueline de Almeida Celestino, Emanuella Figueiredo de Menezes, Nathalia Pinheiro dos Santos, Eduardo Guimarães Vieira, Ana Maria Da Costa Ferreira, Wanderley de Souza, Sonia Rozental, Maribel Navarro. Antifungal promising agents of Zinc(II) and Copper(II) derivatives based on azole drug. Journal of Bioinorganic Chemistry. 219, 111401, 2021.

6. Juliane Aparecida Marinho, Daniel Silqueira Martins Guimarães, Nícolas Glanzmann, Giovana de Almeida Pimentel, Izabelle Karine da Costa Nunes, Henrique Marcelo Gualberto Pereira, Maribel Navarro, Fernando de Pilla Varotti, Adilson David da Silva, Clarice Abramo. In vitro and in vivo antiplasmodial activity of novel quinoline derivative compounds by molecular hybridization. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 215, 113271, 2021.

7. Caroline de Souza Pereira, Helenita Costa Quadros, Diogo Rodrigo Magalhaes Moreira, William Castro, Romulo Ivisson Santos De Deus Da Silva, Milena Botelho Pereira Soares, Diana Fontinha, Miguel Prudêncio, Vinicius Schmitz, Hélio F. Dos Santos, Mathieu Gendrot, Isabelle Fonta, Joel Mosnier, Bruno Pradines, and Maribel Navarro. A Novel Hybrid of Chloroquine and Primaquine Linked by Gold(I): Multitarget and Multiphase Antiplasmodial Agent. Chemical Medical Chemestry Volume 16, Issue 4, 662-678, 2021.

8. Maribel Navarro, Rodrigo M. S. Justo, Giset Y. Sánchez Delgado, Gonzalo Visbal. Metallodrugs for the treatment of Trypanosomatid diseases: recent advances and new insight. Current Pharmaceutical Design. 2021

9. Giset Y. Sánchez Delgado, Camila A. S. R. Condé, Hélio F. Dos Santos, Maribel Navarro. Quimica Nova. Vol. 43, No. 8, 1104-1124, 2020.

10. Azevedo-Franca J. A.; Granado R. ; Silva S. T. M.; Santos-Silva G.; Scapin S.; Borba-Santos L. P.; Rozental S.; de Souza Wanderley; Martins-Duarte Erica S.; Barrias E.; Rodrigues J. C. F.; Navarro, Maribel. Synthesis and Biological Activity of Novel Zinc-Itraconazole Complexes in Protozoan Parasites and Sporothrix spp.. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy v. 64, p. 1, 2020.

11. Pereira Livia Dessupoio; Vila, Taissa ; Borba-Santos, Luana Pereira ; de Souza, Wanderley; Navarro Maribel ; Rozental Sonia*. Activity of Metal-Azole Complexes against Biofilms of Candida albicans and Candida glabrata. Current Pharmaceutical Design, v. 26, p. E1-E8, 2020.

12. Victor Midlej, Felipe Rubim, Wilmer Villarreal, Érica S. Martins-Duarte, Maribel Navarro, Wanderley de Souza, Marlene Benchimol*. Zinc-clotrimazole complexes are effective against Trichomonas vaginalis. Parasitology. v. 146, p. 1-11, 2019.

13. Legna Colina-Vegas, Joseane Lima Prado Godinho, Thallita Coutinho, Rodrigo S. Correa,Wanderley de Souza, Juliany Cola Fernandes Rodrigues, Alzir Azevedo Batista*, Maribel Navarro. Antiparasitic activity and ultrastructural alterations provoked by organoruthenium complexes against Leishmania amazonensis. New Journal of Chemistry.  43, 1431—1439, 2019.

14. Legna Colina-Vegas, Katia M. de Oliveira, Beatriz N. Cunha, Marcia Regina Cominetti, Maribel Navarro*, Alzir Azevedo Batista. Anti-Proliferative and Anti-Migration Activity of Arene-Ruthenium(II) Complexes with Azole Therapeutic Agents. 6(4), 132, 2018.

15. Thalita Gagini, Legna Colina-Vegas, Wilmer Villarreal,Luana Pereira Borba-Santos,Caroline de Souza Pereira, Alzir Azevedo Batista,Marcos Kneip Fleury, Wanderley de Souza, Sonia Rozental, Luiz Antonio S. Costa, Maribel Navarro*. Metal–azole fungistatic drug complexes as anti-Sporothrix spp. Agents. New Journal of Chemistry. 42, 13641-13650, 2018.

16. Tais S. Macedo, Wilmer Villarreal, Camila C. Couto, Diogo R. M. Moreira, Maribel Navarro, Marta Machado, Miguel Prudencio, Alzir A. Batista, Milena B. P. Soares*. Platinum(II)-chloroquine complexes are antimalarial agents against blood and liver stages by impairing mitochondrial function. Metallomics 9 (11), 1548–1561, 2017.

17. Gonzalo Visbal, Angel Rubén Higuera-Padilla, Luana Pereira Borba-Santos, Wanderley de Souza, Sonia Rozental , Maribel Navarro*. Metal–azasterol complexes: Synthesis, characterization, interaction studies with DNA and TrxR and Biological Evaluation. Journal of the Mexican Chemical Society. 61(2), 146-157, 2017.

18. Wilmer Villarreal, Legna Colina-Vegas, Gonzalo Visbal, Oscar Corona, Rodrigo S. Correa, Javier Ellena, Marcia Regina Cominetti, Alzir Azevedo Batista, and Maribel Navarro. Copper(I)−Phosphine Polypyridyl Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization, DNA/HSA Binding Study, and Antiproliferative Activity. Inorganic Chemistry, 56 (7), 3781–3793, 2017.

 

Patent application

Gonzalo Visbal, Maribel Navarro, Rodrigo Justo, Juliany Rodrigues, Sara Macedo-Silva, Wanderley de Souza, G. S Silva. Composto Metaloazasterol Inibidor da Enzima Delta 24-Esterol Metiltransferase, Composição Farmacêutica e Uso do Composto. 2020, Brasil. Patente: Privilégio de Inovação. Número do registro: BR1020200191217.