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  3. Scandenolone from Cudrania tricuspidata fruit extract suppresses the viability of breast cancer cells (MCF-7) in vitro and in vivo

Scandenolone from Cudrania tricuspidata fruit extract suppresses the viability of breast cancer cells (MCF-7) in vitro and in vivo

  • Food Chem Toxicol. 2019 Apr;126:56-66. doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2019.02.020.
Xinwei Jiang 1,  Chunting Cao 1,  Weiwei Sun 1,  Zisheng Chen 2,  Xusheng Li 1,  Lutfun Nahar 3,  Satyajit D Sarker 3,  Milen I Georgiev 4,  Weibin Bai 5
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Food Science and Engineering, Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition, Guangdong Engineering Technology Center of Food Safety Molecular Rapid Detection, Jinan University, Guangzhou, PR China.
  • 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Qingyuan, PR China.
  • 3 Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products Research Group, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, James Parsons Building, Byrom Street, Liverpool, L3 3AF, England, UK.
  • 4 Group of Plant Cell Biotechnology and Metabolomics, Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
  • 5 Department of Food Science and Engineering, Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition, Guangdong Engineering Technology Center of Food Safety Molecular Rapid Detection, Jinan University, Guangzhou, PR China. Electronic address: baiweibin@163.com.
PMID: 30753858 DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2019.02.020
Abstract

Scandenolone, an isoflavone, has shown anti-cancer potential. In this study, we extracted scandenolone from Cudrania tricuspidata fruit and evaluated its anti-breast Cancer effects as well as toxicity in cell and animal models. In cell model, scandenolone suppressed the breast Cancer MCF-7 cells viability, ceased mitotic cell cycle, decreased mitochondrial membrane potential, up-regulated cleaved Caspase-3 and promoted the phosphorylation of p53. Additionally, this isoflavone promoted cell Apoptosis and induced a sustained activation of the phosphorylation of p38 and ERK, but not JNK and Akt. The effects were further verified in a human MCF-7 breast Cancer xenograft model, where scandenolone efficiently suppressed the Cancer growth and increased apoptotic cells in tumor tissue. However scandenolone has also shown certain toxicity to normal hepatocytes and breast epithelial cells. It could be concluded that scandenolone suppressed the growth of breast Cancer cells, but its toxicity towards normal cells might limit its potential clinical use.

Keywords

Flavonoid; MCF-7 cells; Polyphenols; Toxicity; Warangalone; Xenograft model.

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