Crystallography and chemistry should always go together: a cautionary tale of protein complexes with cisplatin and carboplatin.
Shabalin, I., Dauter, Z., Jaskolski, M., Minor, W., Wlodawer, A.(2015) Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 71: 1965-1979
- PubMed: 26327386 
- DOI: 10.1107/S139900471500629X
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4YDX, 4YEA, 4YEM, 4YEN, 4YEO - PubMed Abstract: 
The anticancer activity of platinum-containing drugs such as cisplatin and carboplatin is considered to primarily arise from their interactions with nucleic acids; nevertheless, these drugs, or the products of their hydrolysis, also bind to proteins, potentially leading to the known side effects of the treatments ...