Cytotoxicity and modes of action of five Cameroonian medicinal plants against multi-factorial drug resistance of tumor cells.

Abstract:

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE:Beilschmiedia acuta Kosterm, Clausena anisata (Willd) Hook, Fagara tessmannii Engl., Newbouldia laevis Seem., and Polyscias fulva (Hiern) Harms. are medicinal plants used in Cameroonian traditional medicine in the treatment of various types of cancers. The present study aims at investigating 11 methanolic extracts from the above Cameroonian medicinal plants on a panel of human cancer cell lines, including various drug-resistant phenotypes. Possible modes of action were analyzed for two extracts from Beilschmiedia acuta and Polyscia fulva and alpha-hederin, the representative constituent of Polyscia fulva. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Cytotoxicity was determined using a resazurin assay. Cell cycle, apoptosis, mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP), and reactive oxygen species (ROS) were measured by flow cytometry. Cellular response to alpha-hederin was investigated by a mRNA microarray approach. RESULTS:Prescreening of extracts (40µg/mL) showed that three of eleven plant extracts inhibited proliferation of CCRF-CEM cells by more than 50%, i.e. BAL (73.65%), the bark extract of Beilschmiedia acuta (78.67%) and PFR (68.72%). Subsequent investigations revealed IC50 values below or around 30µg/mL of BAL and PFR in 10 cell lines, including drug-resistant models, i.e. P-glycoprotein-overexpressing CEM/ADR5000, breast cancer resistance protein-transfected MDA-MB-231-BCRP, TP53 knockout cells (HCT116 p53(-/-)), and mutation-activated epidermal growth factor receptor-transfected U87MG.ΔEGFR cells. IC50 values below 5µg/mL of BAL were obtained for HCT116 (p53(-/-)) cells. IC50 values below 10µM of alpha-hederin were found for sensitive CCRF-CEM and multidrug-resistant CEM/ADR5000 cells. The BAL and PFR extracts induced cell cycle arrest between G0/G1 and S phases. PFR-induced apoptosis was associated with increased ROS generation and MMP breakdown. Microarray-based cluster analysis revealed a gene expression profile that predicted cellular response to alpha-hederin. CONCLUSION:BAL, PFL and alpha-hederin, an exemplarily taken constituent of Beilschmiedia acuta and Polyscia fulva extracts revealed cytotoxicity towards cancer cell lines. Hence, Beilschmiedia acuta and Polyscia fulva may be valuable to develop drugs against otherwise drug-resistant cancer cells.

journal_name

J Ethnopharmacol

authors

Kuete V,Tankeo SB,Saeed ME,Wiench B,Tane P,Efferth T

doi

10.1016/j.jep.2014.02.025

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-04-11 00:00:00

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207-19

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1

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0378-8741

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1872-7573

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S0378-8741(14)00138-X

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153

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