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Apoptosis-inducing effect of garcinol is mediated by NF-κB signaling in breast cancer cells

✍ Scribed by Aamir Ahmad; Zhiwei Wang; Raza Ali; Ma'in Y. Maitah; Dejuan Kong; Sanjeev Banerjee; Subhash Padhye; Fazlul H. Sarkar

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
359 KB
Volume
109
Category
Article
ISSN
0730-2312

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Abstract

Garcinol, obtained from Garcinia indica in tropical regions, is used for its numerous biological effects. Its anti‐cancer activity has been suggested but the mechanism of action has not been studied in‐detail, especially there is no report on its action against breast cancer cells. Here we tested our hypothesis that garcinol may act as an anti‐proliferative and apoptosis‐inducing agent against breast cancer cell lines. Using multiple techniques such as MTT, Histone‐DNA ELISA, Annexin V‐PI staining, Western blot for activated caspases and cleaved PARP, homogenous caspase‐3/7 fluorometric assay and EMSA, we investigated the mechanism of apoptosis‐inducing effect of garcinol in ER‐positive MCF‐7 and ER‐negative MDA‐MB‐231 cells. We found that garcinol exhibits dose‐dependent cancer cell‐specific growth inhibition in both the cell lines with a concomitant induction of apoptosis, and has no effect on non‐tumorigenic MCF‐10A cells. Our results suggested induction of caspase‐mediated apoptosis in highly metastatic MDA‐MB‐231 cells by garcinol. Down‐regulation of NF‐κB signaling pathway was observed to be the mechanism of apoptosis‐induction. Garcinol inhibited constitutive NF‐κB activity, which was consistent with down‐regulation of NF‐κB‐regulated genes. This is the first report on anti‐proliferative and apoptosis‐inducing action of garcinol against human breast cancer cells and the results suggest that this natural compound merits investigation as a potential chemo‐preventive/‐therapeutic agent, especially against breast cancer. J. Cell. Biochem. 109: 1134–1141, 2010. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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