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Gielecińska A, Kciuk M, Mujwar S, Celik I, Kołat D, Kałuzińska-Kołat Ż, Kontek R. Substances of Natural Origin in Medicine: Plants vs. Cancer. Cells 2023; 12:986. [PMID: 37048059 PMCID: PMC10092955 DOI: 10.3390/cells12070986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2023] [Revised: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 04/14/2023] Open
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Continuous monitoring of the population's health is the main method of learning about disease prevalence. National and international data draw attention to the persistently high rates of cancer incidence. This necessitates the intensification of efforts aimed at developing new, more effective chemotherapeutic and chemopreventive drugs. Plants represent an invaluable source of natural substances with versatile medicinal properties. Multidirectional activities exhibited by natural substances and their ability to modulate key signaling pathways, mainly related to cancer cell death, make these substances an important research direction. This review summarizes the information regarding plant-derived chemotherapeutic drugs, including their mechanisms of action, with a special focus on selected anti-cancer drugs (paclitaxel, irinotecan) approved in clinical practice. It also presents promising plant-based drug candidates currently being tested in clinical and preclinical trials (betulinic acid, resveratrol, and roburic acid).
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- Adrianna Gielecińska
- Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Lodz, 90-237 Lodz, Poland
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Genetics, University of Lodz, 90-237 Lodz, Poland
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- Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Lodz, 90-237 Lodz, Poland
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Genetics, University of Lodz, 90-237 Lodz, Poland
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- Chitkara College of Pharmacy, Chitkara University, Rajpura 140401, Punjab, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Erciyes University, Kayseri 38039, Turkey
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- Department of Experimental Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, Narutowicza 60, 90-136 Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, Narutowicza 60, 90-136 Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Genetics, University of Lodz, 90-237 Lodz, Poland
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Sullivan SA, Nawarathne IN, Walker KD. CoA recycling by a benzoate coenzyme A ligase in cascade reactions with aroyltransferases to biocatalyze paclitaxel analogs. Arch Biochem Biophys 2020; 683:108276. [PMID: 31978400 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2020.108276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2019] [Revised: 01/14/2020] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A Pseudomonas CoA ligase (BadA) biocatalyzed aroyl CoA thioesters used by a downstream N-benzoyltransferase (NDTNBT) in a cascade reaction made aroyl analogs of the anticancer drug paclitaxel. BadA kept the high-cost aroyl CoA substrates at saturation for the downstream NDTNBT by recycling CoA when it was added as the limiting reactant. A deacylated taxane substrate N-debenzoyl-2'-deoxypaclitaxel was converted to its benzoylated product at a higher yield, compared to the converted yield in assays in which the BadA ligase chemistry was omitted, and benzoyl CoA was added as a cosubstrate. The resulting benzoylated product 2'-deoxypaclitaxel was made at 196% over the theoretical yield of product that could be made from the CoA added at 50 μM, and the cosubstrates benzoic acid (100 μM), and N-debenzoyl-2'-deoxypaclitaxel (500 μM) added in excess. In addition, a 2-O-benzoyltransferase (mTBT) was incubated with BadA, aroyl acids, CoA, a 2-O-debenzoylated taxane substrate, and cofactors under the CoA-recycling conditions established for the NDTNBT/BadA cascade. The mTBT/BadA combination also made various 2-O-aroylated products that could potentially function as next-generation baccatin III compounds. These ligase/benzoyltransferase cascade reactions show the feasibility of recycling aroyl CoA thioesters in vitro to make bioactive acyl analogs of paclitaxel precursors.
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- Sean A Sullivan
- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA; Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA.
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Wei F, Shi L, Wang Q, Zhao Y. Fast and accurate separation of the paclitaxel from yew extracum by a pseudo simulated moving bed with solvent gradient. J Chromatogr A 2018; 1564:120-127. [PMID: 29895410 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2018.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2017] [Revised: 05/15/2018] [Accepted: 06/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A pseudo simulated moving bed (SMB) with solvent gradient was used to trap and separate paclitaxel from yew extracum. This SMB process consisted of three steps: feeding, purification and recovery. In comparison with methanol/water as an eluent, acetonitrile/water could give a better separation but had a poor dissolubility of the yew extracum, and therefore methanol/water was used in the feeding followed by acetonitrile/water in the purification. In the first two steps, water was deliberately added into zone III to modulate the eluotropic strength of the liquid entering zone III, so as to make paclitaxel separation from impurities be more efficient. Once most of impurities discarded, the columns were in turn eluted to recover the trapped paclitaxel of 98% yield with a purity of 78% from the yew extracum containing 1.5% paclitaxel. Afterward, an additional operation of crystallization improved the purity further to 97.8% with the yield of 95%.
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- Feng Wei
- Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315100, China.
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- Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315100, China
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- Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315100, China
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- Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315100, China
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Seca AML, Pinto DCGA. Plant Secondary Metabolites as Anticancer Agents: Successes in Clinical Trials and Therapeutic Application. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:ijms19010263. [PMID: 29337925 PMCID: PMC5796209 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19010263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 339] [Impact Index Per Article: 56.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2017] [Revised: 01/12/2018] [Accepted: 01/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Cancer is a multistage process resulting in an uncontrolled and abrupt division of cells and is one of the leading causes of mortality. The cases reported and the predictions for the near future are unthinkable. Food and Drug Administration data showed that 40% of the approved molecules are natural compounds or inspired by them, from which, 74% are used in anticancer therapy. In fact, natural products are viewed as more biologically friendly, that is less toxic to normal cells. In this review, the most recent and successful cases of secondary metabolites, including alkaloid, diterpene, triterpene and polyphenolic type compounds, with great anticancer potential are discussed. Focusing on the ones that are in clinical trial development or already used in anticancer therapy, therefore successful cases such as paclitaxel and homoharringtonine (in clinical use), curcumin and ingenol mebutate (in clinical trials) will be addressed. Each compound’s natural source, the most important steps in their discovery, their therapeutic targets, as well as the main structural modifications that can improve anticancer properties will be discussed in order to show the role of plants as a source of effective and safe anticancer drugs.
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- Ana M L Seca
- cE3c-Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group & Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Azores, Rua Mãe de Deus, 9501-321 Ponta Delgada, Portugal.
- Department of Chemistry & QOPNA-Organic Chemistry, Natural Products and Food Stuffs, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.
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- Department of Chemistry & QOPNA-Organic Chemistry, Natural Products and Food Stuffs, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.
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Thornburg CK, Walter T, Walker KD. Biocatalysis of a Paclitaxel Analogue: Conversion of Baccatin III to N-Debenzoyl-N-(2-furoyl)paclitaxel and Characterization of an Amino Phenylpropanoyl CoA Transferase. Biochemistry 2017; 56:5920-5930. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Chelsea K. Thornburg
- Department of Chemistry and ‡Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and ‡Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and ‡Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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Sun H, Li X, Ma G, Su Z. A Facile Two‐Column Chromatographic Process for Efficient Purification of Paclitaxel from Crude Extract. J LIQ CHROMATOGR R T 2017. [DOI: 10.1081/jlc-200047220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Haihong Sun
- a National Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering , Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing , P. R. China
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- a National Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering , Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing , P. R. China
- b School of Chemical Engineering , Beijing University of Chemical Technology , Beijing , P. R. China
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- a National Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering , Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing , P. R. China
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- a National Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering , Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing , P. R. China
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Noverges B, Medio-Simón M, Asensio G. Palladium-Catalyzed Alkoxy- and Aminocarbonylation of α-Halomethyl Oxime Ethers: Synthesis of 1,3-Alkoxyimino Esters and 1,3-Alkoxyimino Amides. Adv Synth Catal 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201400710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Li S, Fu Y, Zu Y, Zu B, Wang Y, Efferth T. Determination of paclitaxel and its analogues in the needles ofTaxusspecies by using negative pressure cavitation extraction followed by HPLC-MS-MS. J Sep Sci 2009; 32:3958-66. [DOI: 10.1002/jssc.200900402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Zu Y, Wang Y, Fu Y, Li S, Sun R, Liu W, Luo H. Enzyme-assisted extraction of paclitaxel and related taxanes from needles of Taxus chinensis. Sep Purif Technol 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2009.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Kingston DGI, Jagtap PG, Yuan H, Samala L. The chemistry of taxol and related taxoids. FORTSCHRITTE DER CHEMIE ORGANISCHER NATURSTOFFE = PROGRESS IN THE CHEMISTRY OF ORGANIC NATURAL PRODUCTS. PROGRES DANS LA CHIMIE DES SUBSTANCES ORGANIQUES NATURELLES 2002; 84:53-225. [PMID: 12132389 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-6160-9_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- D G I Kingston
- Department of Chemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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