RT Journal Article T1 Ruthenation of Non‐stacked Guanines in DNA G‐Quadruplex Structures: Enhancement of c‐MYC Expression A1 Rodríguez Villar, Jéssica A1 Mosquera Mosquera, Jesús A1 Rodríguez Couceiro, José A1 Vázquez Sentís, Marco Eugenio A1 Mascareñas Cid, José Luis K1 Bioinorganic chemistry K1 DNA damage K1 Metalation K1 Photochemistry K1 Ruthenium AB Guanine quadruplexes (GQs) are compact four‐stranded DNA structures that play a key role in the control of a variety of biological processes, including gene transcription. Bulky ruthenium complexes featuring a bipyridine, a terpyridine, and one exchangeable ligand ([Ru(terpy)(bpy)X]n+) are able to metalate exposed guanines present in the GQ of the c‐MYC promoter region that are not involved in quadruplex base pairing. qRT‐PCR and western‐blot experiments indicated that the complexes promote a remarkable increase in the expression of this oncogene. We also show that exchangeable thioether ligands (X=RSR′, Met) allow regulation of the metalating activity of the complex with visible light PB Wiley SN 1433-7851 YR 2016 FD 2016 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18334 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18334 LA eng NO J. Rodríguez, J. Mosquera, J. R. Couceiro, M. E. Vázquez, J. L. Mascareñas, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 15615 NO We thank the support by the Spanish grants SAF2013‐41943‐R, CTQ2015‐70698‐R, and CTQ2013‐49317‐EXP, the Xunta de Galicia GRC2013‐041, the ERDF, and the European Research Council (Advanced Grant No. 340055). Support of COST Action CM1105, COST CM1306 and the orfeo‐cinqa network are also kindly acknowledged. J.R. thanks the Xunta de Galicia for a Ph.D. fellowship DS Minerva RD 29 abr 2026