Cytotoxic and proapoptotic activity of diterpenoids from in vitro cultivated Salvia sclarea roots. Studies on the leukemia cell lines.

Abstract

Four diterpenoids, ferruginol, salvipisone, aethiopinone and 1-oxoaethiopinone, were isolated from transformed roots of Salvia sclarea. Salvipisone and aethiopinone showed relatively high cytotoxicity against HL-60 and NALM-6 leukemia cells (IC50 range 0.6-7.7 microg/ mL which is equal to 2.0-24.7 microM), whereas 1-oxoaethiopinone and ferruginol were less active in this regard. Moreover, we have found that all four diterpenoids of S. sclarea had equal cytotoxic activity against parental HL-60 and multidrug-resistant HL-60 ADR cells, what indicates that they are poor substrates for transport by multidrug resistance-associated protein (MRP1). Caspase-3 activity determinations showed that salvipisone and aethiopinone were able to induce apoptosis in a time- and concentration-dependent manner. The results obtained in this study show that S. sclarea diterpenoids aethiopinone and salvipisone may be useful in the treatment of human cancers, especially in the case of drug resistance.

• Authors: Marek Rózalski, Lukasz Kuźma, Urszula Krajewska, Halina Wysokińska
• Journal: Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung. C, Journal of biosciences (Z Naturforsch C J Biosci) 2006 Jul-Aug Vol. 61 Issue 7-8 Pg. 483-8 ISSN: 0939-5075 [Print] Germany
• PMID: 16989306 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)

Chemical References

• Diterpenes
• Doxorubicin
• CASP3 protein, human
• Caspase 3
• Caspases

Topics

• Apoptosis (drug effects)
• Caspase 3
• Caspases (drug effects, metabolism)
• Cell Line, Tumor
• Cell Survival (drug effects)
• Diterpenes (chemistry, isolation & purification, toxicity)
• Doxorubicin
• Drug Resistance, Multiple
• HL-60 Cells
• Humans
• Kinetics
• Leukemia
• Molecular Structure
• Plant Roots (chemistry)
• Plant Shoots
• Salvia (chemistry)