Abstract:
:Isoliquiritigenin (ILTG) is a flavonoid with chalcone structure (4,2',4'-trihydroxychalcone), an active component present in plants like Glycyrrhiza and Dalbergia which showed various biological activities including anti-inflammatory, anti-carcinogenic and antihistamic. As very little is known in regard to the underlying mechanism involved in explaining the various activities of the compound, we carried out a detailed study on the effect of ILTG on the expression of cell adhesion molecules on human primary endothelial cells. We demonstrate here that ILTG inhibits TNF-alpha induced adhesion of neutrophils to endothelial monolayer by blocking the expression of ICAM-1, VCAM-1 and E-selectin. Since NF-kappaB is a major transcription factor involved in the transcriptional regulation of cell adhesion molecules, thus we studied the status of NF-kappaB activation in ILTG treated endothelial cells. We demonstrate that ILTG inhibits the translocation and activation of nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) by blocking the phosphorylation and subsequent degradation of IkappaBalpha. As oxidative stress is also known to regulate the activation of NF-kappaB to modulate TNF-alpha signaling cascade, we tested the effect of ILTG on reactive oxygen species (ROS). We found that it inhibits TNF-alpha induced ROS production in endothelial cells. These results have important implications for using ILTG or its derivatives towards the development of effective anti-inflammatory molecules.
journal_name
Biochem Pharmacoljournal_title
Biochemical pharmacologyauthors
Kumar S,Sharma A,Madan B,Singhal V,Ghosh Bdoi
10.1016/j.bcp.2007.01.015subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2007-05-15 00:00:00pages
1602-12issue
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0006-2952issn
1873-2968pii
S0006-2952(07)00027-5journal_volume
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