Ravanan, Palaniyandi and Singh, Sanjay K and Rao, Subba GSR and Kondaiah, Paturu (2011) Growth inhibitory, apoptotic and anti-inflammatory activities displayed by a novel modified triterpenoid, cyano enone of methyl boswellates. In: Journal of Biosciences, 36 (2). pp. 297-307.
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Abstract
Triterpenoids are pentacyclic secondary metabolites present in many terrestrial plants. Natural triterpenoids have been reported to exhibit anti-inflammatory and anti-carcinogenic activities. Here, we show that modifications of ring A of boswellic acid (2 cyano, 3 enone) resulted in a highly active growth inhibitory, anti-inflammatory, pro-differentiative and anti-tumour triterpenoid compound called cyano enone of methyl boswellates (CEMB). This compound showed cytotoxic activity on a number of cancer cell lines with IC50 ranging from 0.2 to 0.6 mu M. CEMB inhibits DNA synthesis and induces apoptosis in A549 cell line at 0.25 mu M and 1 mu M concentrations, respectively. CEMB induces adipogenic differentiation in 3T3-L1 cells at a concentration of 0.1 mu M. Finally, administration of CEMB intra-tumourally significantly inhibited the growth of C6 glioma tumour xenograft in immuno-compromised mice. Collectively, these results suggest that CEMB is a very potent anti-tumour compound.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publication: | Journal of Biosciences |
Publisher: | Indian Academy of Sciences |
Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to Indian Academy of Sciences. |
Keywords: | Cancer therapeutics;cytotoxicity;differentiation; natural products |
Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Molecular Reproduction, Development & Genetics |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jun 2011 09:06 |
Last Modified: | 29 Jun 2011 09:06 |
URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/38628 |
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