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Hsu CY, Rajabi S, Hamzeloo-Moghadam M, Kumar A, Maresca M, Ghildiyal P. Sesquiterpene lactones as emerging biomolecules to cease cancer by targeting apoptosis. Front Pharmacol 2024; 15:1371002. [PMID: 38529189 PMCID: PMC10961375 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2024.1371002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2024] [Accepted: 02/26/2024] [Indexed: 03/27/2024] Open
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Apoptosis is a programmed cell death comprising two signaling cascades including the intrinsic and extrinsic pathways. This process has been shown to be involved in the therapy response of different cancer types, making it an effective target for treating cancer. Cancer has been considered a challenging issue in global health. Cancer cells possess six biological characteristics during their developmental process known as cancer hallmarks. Hallmarks of cancer include continuous growth signals, unlimited proliferation, resistance to proliferation inhibitors, apoptosis escaping, active angiogenesis, and metastasis. Sesquiterpene lactones are one of the large and diverse groups of planet-derived phytochemicals that can be used as sources for a variety of drugs. Some sesquiterpene lactones possess many biological activities such as anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, anti-microbial, anti-malarial, anticancer, anti-diabetic, and analgesic. This review article briefly overviews the intrinsic and extrinsic pathways of apoptosis and the interactions between the modulators of both pathways. Also, the present review summarizes the potential effects of sesquiterpene lactones on different modulators of the intrinsic and extrinsic pathways of apoptosis in a variety of cancer cell lines and animal models. The main purpose of the present review is to give a clear picture of the current knowledge about the pro-apoptotic effects of sesquiterpene lactones on various cancers to provide future direction in cancer therapeutics.
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- Chou-Yi Hsu
- Department of Pharmacy, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Traditional Medicine and Materia Medica Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Traditional Medicine and Materia Medica Research Center and Department of Traditional Pharmacy, School of Traditional Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Nuclear and Renewable Energy, Ural Federal University Named After the First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, Ekaterinburg, Russia
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, iSm2, Marseille, France
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- Uttaranchal Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun, India
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Gao J, Zhang L, Du H, Dong Y, Zhen S, Wang C, Wang Q, Yang J, Zhang P, Zheng X, Li Y. An ARF24-ZmArf2 module influences kernel size in different maize haplotypes. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2023. [PMID: 36866706 DOI: 10.1111/jipb.13473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Members of the ADP-ribosylation factor family, which are GTP-binding proteins, are involved in metabolite transport, cell division, and expansion. Although there has been a significant amount of research on small GTP-binding proteins, their roles and functions in regulating maize kernel size remain elusive. Here, we identified ZmArf2 as a maize ADP-ribosylation factor-like family member that is highly conserved during evolution. Maize zmarf2 mutants showed a characteristic smaller kernel size. Conversely, ZmArf2 overexpression increased maize kernel size. Furthermore, heterologous expression of ZmArf2 dramatically elevated Arabidopsis and yeast growth by promoting cell division. Using expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) analysis, we determined that ZmArf2 expression levels in various lines were mainly associated with variation at the gene locus. The promoters of ZmArf2 genes could be divided into two types, pS and pL, that were significantly associated with both ZmArf2 expression levels and kernel size. In yeast-one-hybrid screening, maize Auxin Response Factor 24 (ARF24) is directly bound to the ZmArf2 promoter region and negatively regulated ZmArf2 expression. Notably, the pS and pL promoter types each contained an ARF24 binding element: an auxin response element (AuxRE) in pS and an auxin response region (AuxRR) in pL, respectively. ARF24 binding affinity to AuxRR was much higher compared with AuxRE. Overall, our results establish that the small G-protein ZmArf2 positively regulates maize kernel size and reveals the mechanism of its expression regulation.
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- Jie Gao
- State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Henan Maize Engineering Technology Joint Center, College of Agronomy, and Center for Crop Genome Engineering, Longzi Lake Campus, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Henan Maize Engineering Technology Joint Center, College of Agronomy, and Center for Crop Genome Engineering, Longzi Lake Campus, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Henan Maize Engineering Technology Joint Center, College of Agronomy, and Center for Crop Genome Engineering, Longzi Lake Campus, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Henan Maize Engineering Technology Joint Center, College of Agronomy, and Center for Crop Genome Engineering, Longzi Lake Campus, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Henan Maize Engineering Technology Joint Center, College of Agronomy, and Center for Crop Genome Engineering, Longzi Lake Campus, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Henan Maize Engineering Technology Joint Center, College of Agronomy, and Center for Crop Genome Engineering, Longzi Lake Campus, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Henan Maize Engineering Technology Joint Center, College of Agronomy, and Center for Crop Genome Engineering, Longzi Lake Campus, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Henan Maize Engineering Technology Joint Center, College of Agronomy, and Center for Crop Genome Engineering, Longzi Lake Campus, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Henan Maize Engineering Technology Joint Center, College of Agronomy, and Center for Crop Genome Engineering, Longzi Lake Campus, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Henan Maize Engineering Technology Joint Center, College of Agronomy, and Center for Crop Genome Engineering, Longzi Lake Campus, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450046, China
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Orfali R, Perveen S, Peng J, Alqahtani AS, Nasr FA, Ahmed MZ, Luciano P, Chianese G, Al-Taweel AM, Taglialatela-Scafati O. Penicillactonin and preaustinoid C, lactone-containing metabolites from a hot spring sediment Penicillium sp. Fitoterapia 2022; 163:105330. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fitote.2022.105330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2022] [Revised: 10/05/2022] [Accepted: 10/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Nasr FA, Siddiqui NA, ElGamal AA, Al-Massarani SM, Basudan OA, Abdel-Mageed WM, Alhuzani MR, Alqahtani AS. Cytotoxic activity of guaiane-type sesquiterpene lactone (deoxycynaropicrin) isolated from the leaves of Centaurothamnus maximus. OPEN CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1515/chem-2022-0163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Guaianolide is a type of naturally occurring sesquiterpene lactone compounds that have attracted attention due to their diverse biological properties. In this work, a guaiane-type sesquiterpene lactone identified as deoxycynaropicrin (compound 1) was isolated and reported for the first time from the leaves of Centaurothamnus maximus with two known flavonoid derivatives namely luteolin 6-O-methyl ether (compound 2) and quercetin 3-methyl ether 5-O-glucopyranoside (compound 3). The cytotoxic activity of all the three compounds was evaluated against the THP-1 human leukemia cell lines. Moreover, flow cytometry was employed to explore the cell cycle arrest and apoptosis induction for the active compound. We found that compound 1 (deoxycynaropicrin) exerted the highest cytotoxicity while compounds 2 and 3 showed no activity. Cell cycle analysis showed that compound 1 arrested the cells’ population at the G2/M phase. Furthermore, THP-1 cells treated with compound 1 exhibited a marked increase in the apoptotic cells compared to the control. Overall, this study showed that deoxycynaropicrin induces cytotoxicity against human leukemia cell lines and provided an important insight into its potential therapeutic effects against leukemia cells.
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- Fahd A. Nasr
- Department of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University , P. O. Box 22452 , Riyadh 11495 , Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University , P. O. Box 22452 , Riyadh 11495 , Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University , P. O. Box 22452 , Riyadh 11495 , Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University , P. O. Box 22452 , Riyadh 11495 , Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University , P. O. Box 22452 , Riyadh 11495 , Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University , P. O. Box 22452 , Riyadh 11495 , Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University , P. O. Box 22452 , Riyadh 11495 , Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University , P. O. Box 22452 , Riyadh 11495 , Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Cytotoxicity of Newly Synthesized Quinazoline-Sulfonamide Derivatives in Human Leukemia Cell Lines and Their Effect on Hematopoiesis in Zebrafish Embryos. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23094720. [PMID: 35563111 PMCID: PMC9104550 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23094720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2022] [Revised: 04/20/2022] [Accepted: 04/22/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Many quinazoline derivatives with pharmacological properties, such as anticancer activity, have been synthesized. Fourteen quinazoline derivatives bearing a substituted sulfonamide moiety (4a-n) were previously synthesized and fully characterized. These compounds exerted antiproliferative activity against cell lines derived from solid tumors. Herein, the antileukemic activities of these compounds (4a-n) against two different leukemia cell lines (Jurkat acute T cell and THP-1 acute monocytic) were investigated. Our investigation included examining their activity in vivo in a zebrafish embryo model. Remarkably, compounds 4a and 4d were the most potent in suppressing cell proliferation, with an IC50 value range of 4-6.5 µM. Flow cytometry analysis indicated that both compounds halted cell progression at the G2/M phase and induced apoptosis in a dose-dependent manner. RT-PCR and Western blot analyses also showed that both compounds effectively induced apoptosis by upregulating the expression of proapoptotic factors while downregulating that of antiapoptotic factors. In vivo animal toxicity assays performed in zebrafish embryos indicated that compound 4d was more toxic than compound 4a, with compound 4d inducing multiple levels of teratogenic phenotypes in zebrafish embryos at a sublethal concentration. Moreover, both compounds perturbed the hematopoiesis process in developing zebrafish embryos. Collectively, our data suggest that compounds 4a and 4d have the potential to be used as antileukemic agents.
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