• BMB Reports
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• 제57권2호
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• pp.104-109
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• 2024

Gefitinib exerts anticancer effects on various types of cancer, such as lung, ovarian, breast, and colon cancers. However, the therapeutic effects of gefitinib on cervical cancer and the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Thus, this study aimed to explore whether gefitinib can be used to treat cervical cancer and elucidate the underlying mechanisms. Results showed that gefitinib induced a caspase-dependent apoptosis of HeLa cells, which consequently became round and detached from the surface of the culture plate. Gefitinib induced the reorganization of actin cytoskeleton and downregulated the expression of p-FAK, integrin β1 and E-cadherin, which are important in cell-extracellular matrix adhesion and cell-cell interaction, respectively. Moreover, gefitinib hindered cell reattachment and spreading and suppressed interactions between detached cells in suspension, leading to poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase cleavage, a hallmark of apoptosis. It also induced detachment-induced apoptosis (anoikis) in C33A cells, another cervical cancer cell line. Taken together, these results suggest that gefitinib triggers anoikis in cervical cancer cells. Our findings may serve as a basis for broadening the range of anticancer drugs used to treat cervical cancer.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.330-336
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• 2020

Ex-situ conservation of the ornamental and medicinal orchid, Coelogyne stricta, was performed by mass propagation using seed culture. Propagation stages were optimized using full- and half-strength solidified MS medium with different phytohormones. Maximum seed germination (88 ± 0.5% over 6 weeks of culture) was achieved on half-strength MS medium supplemented with 15% coconut water. Maximum shoot numbers were found on full-strength MS medium supplemented with 1 mg/L BAP, 2 mg/L Kinetin, and 10% coconut water, while the longest root was developed on full-strength MS medium with 1.5 mg/L IBA. A 2:1:1 combination of coco-peat, pine bark, and sphagnum moss was found to be a suitable potting mixture resulting in 80% seedling survivability. The cytotoxic activity of extracts of both wild plants and in vitro-developed protocorms was determined using an MTT (3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2, 5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide) assay on a cervical cancer cell line. The wild plant extract inhibited the growth of 41.99% of cells, showing that this extract has moderate cytotoxic activity toward cervical cancer cells.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제28권8호
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• pp.1183-1189
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• 2004

A novel cell count method, which can improve the count efficiency and reduce contamination problem, was presented using micro lattice engraved on culture dish. The micro lattice has feature of $50{\mu}m{\times}50{\mu}m$ rectangular shape, $2{\mu}m$ line width, and $2{\mu}m$ depth in $3mm{\times}3mm$ area. In this paper, nickel mold was fabricated with thickness of 3mm and diameter of 80 mm, and transcription of the micro lattice on a polystyrene cell culture dish was performed by hot embossing at $200\;^{\circ}C$. The tedious and error-prone harvest/load processes of conventional cell counts with a hemocytometer could be omitted, and these advantages became magnified during periodical counts involving long-term cultures. SupT1 cells and HeLa cells were cultivated with the dish for 7 days in $CO_2$ incubator and counted as $371.84/mm^2$ and $123.36/mm^2$, respectively, during the cultivation without harmful effects on the cells.

• Food Science and Biotechnology
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.1106-1109
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• 2008

The anti-Helicobacter pylori activity, cytotoxicity, and anti-inflammatory activity of white ginseng extract (WGE) were investigated in vitro in this study. The antimicrobial effects of WGE toward H. pylori strains 52 J99, SSI, and 51 were tested using the disk diffusion method. Among these H. pylori strains, H. pylori 52 was the most sensitive, having the largest inhibition zone (19 mm), followed by J99, SSI, and 51. The zone of inhibition due to WGE increased significantly with increasing dosage. The cytotoxicity of WGE toward the human cancer cell lines A-549 (human lung carcinoma), HEC-1-B (human endometrial adenocarcinoma), HeLa (human uterin adenocarcinoma), and SW-156 (human kidney carcinoma) was measured using the 3-(4,5-dimethylthizol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenylate-tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. WGE exhibited an inhibitory effect on cell growth at 2.0 mg/mL for all tumor cell lines. An analysis of anti-inflammatory activity using the RAW 264.7 cell line showed that the inhibition of nitric oxide (NO) production increased as the WGE content increased. These results demonstrate the potential of WGE to be used as a health-promoting substance.

• 대한한방내과학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.33-42
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• 2011

Background : Despite recent advances in cancer management, prognosis of ovarian cancer is poor. Anticancer effects of herbal medicine, such as Euonymus alatus Sieb, Oldenlandia diffusa (Willd.) Roxburgh, and Orostachys japonicus A. Berger, have been reported in treatment of ovarian and cervical cancers, but the systematic approaches to explain their molecular mechanism(s) have not yet been established. Objectives : To establish a basis of understanding for anti-cancer mechanisms of herbal medicine, we profiled protein expression in human ovarian and cervical cancer cells treated with the extracts from Euonymus alatus Sieb, Oldenlandia diffusa (Willd.) Roxburgh and Orostachys japonicus A. Berger. Methods : Human ovarian cancer cell line NIH:OVCAR-3, and human cervical cancer cell line HeLa were employed in the present study. Whole protein was obtained from the cells harvested at 48 hours after the treatment with herbal water-extract, and analyzed by 2DE-based proteomic approach. Results : Various changes of protein expression induced by the herbal treatment were monitored : down-regulation of molecular chaperone (calreticulin variant), glycolytic enzymes (D-3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase and alpha-enolase), RNA processing molecules (hnRNP A2/B1), and antioxidant protein (peroxiredoxin 1). Conclusions : Repression of glycolysis has been accepted as the mechanism to increase anticancer reagent's effect. Thus, down-regulation of glycolytic enzymes by the herbal extracts suggested a possible synergistic effect of herbs in the presence of platinum-based therapeutics. In further study, as well as the synergistic effect of the herbs, it has to be further validated whether artificial regulation of hnRNP A2/B1 in ovarian cancer cells affects various cancer survival factors, since RNA processing can be interrupted by deranged expression of hnRNP subtypes, and it results in an inhibition of cancer cell growth.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.46-50
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• 1996

Inhibition of the growth of human cancer cells by proteins secreted from 373-L1 cells was investigated in the present study. The growth of human cancer cells was inhibited by co-culture with 373-L1 cells under 10% FBS and DME, DME, GIT and serumless medium, respectively. The conditioned medium of cultured 373-L1 cells under serumless medium was concentrated 100-fold through an ultrafiltration cell with a 10,000 molecular weight cutoff at 4$^{\circ}C$ under positive pressure using nitrogen(373-L1 EM). 373-L1 EM inhibited the growth of HeLa, Hep G 2, KHOS-Np, A43l and MCF-7 cells. 3T3-L1 EM was purified with FPLC, DEAE-ion exchange chromatography and phenyl-sepharose chromatography. The major protein of 373-L1 EM has a molecular weight of 66,000-68,000 in SDS-PAGE analysis. The results suggest that the inhibitory activity of 373-L1 EM appears to be due to some protein(m.w.66,000-68,000) secreted by 373-L1 cells.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.495-499
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• 2013

A novel series of aryl sulfonylpiperazine derivatives (5-15) were synthesized as 5-$HT_6$ ligands. In vitro assay was evaluated by measuring the 5-HT-induced $Ca^{2+}$ increases using HeLa cell line expressing the cloned human 5-$HT_6$ receptor, and the compound 13 showed potent 5-$HT_6$ receptor antagonistic effect with $IC_{50}$ value of 3.9 ${\mu}M$. Compound 13 also showed good selectivity on the 5-$HT_6$ over 5-$HT_4$ and 5-$HT_7$ receptors.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.372-379
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• 2017

The transport of lysosomal enzymes into the lysosomes depends on the phosphorylation of their chains and the binding of the phosphorylated residues to mannose-6-phosphate receptors. The efficiency of separation depends more on the phosphodiesterases (PDEs) than on the activity of the phosphorylation of mannose residues and can be determined in vitro. PDEs play important roles in regulation of the activation of lysosomes. The expression of proteins was confirmed by western blotting. All PDE4 series protein expression was reduced in high concentrations of rolipram. As a result of observing the fluorescence intensity after rolipram treatment, the lysosomal enzyme was activated at low concentrations and suppressed at high concentrations. High concentrations of rolipram recovered the original function. Antimicrobial activity was not shown in either 10 or $100{\mu}M$ concentrations of rolipram in treated HeLa cells in vitro. However, the higher anticancer activity at lower rolipram concentration was shown in lysosomal enzyme treated with $10{\mu}M$ of rolipram. The anticancer activity was confirmed through cathepsin B and D assay. Tranfection allowed examination of the relationship between PDE4 and lysosomal activity in more detail. Protein expression was confirmed to be reduced. Fluorescence intensity showed decreased activity of lysosomes and ROS in cells transfected with the antisense sequences of PDE4 A, B, C, and D. PDE4A showed anticancer activity, whereas lysosome from cells transfected with the antisense sequences of PDE4 B, C, and D had decreased anticancer activity. These results showed the PDE4 A, B, C, and D are conjunctly related with lysosomal activity.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.71-76
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• 1997

실험적 자궁암 치료제로서 본 연구소에서 합성한 마이토센유사체를 인체 자궁암세포주인 SiHa, C33A, HeLa, CaSki에 처리하여, 체외 항암활성 측정시 합성 마이토센유사체들은 이 들 세포주에 대하여 대조 항암제들에 비하여 의의있는 세포독성을 보였으며, SiHa 세포주를 이용한 종양클론형성 억제검사에서는 22번 화합물만이 종양성장 억제활성이 가장 우수하였고 다른 화합물들은 대조항암제들에 비하여 활성이 낮았다. 이 마이토센유사체들에 대한 체외 항암감수성결과는 향후 전임상적인 자궁경부암 화합요법제의 기초자료로 유용할것으로 생각된다.

• 한국양봉학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.245-254
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• 2019

꿀벌에 의해 생산되는 프로폴리스는 이미 항균, 항산화, 항염증, 항바이러스 그리고 항종양 등의 기능성으로 중요성이 증가하고 있으며, 인공적으로 생성된 화합물이 아닌 자연에서 얻어진 천연물이라는 점에서 특히 가치가 증가하고 있다. 그 중에서도 인류에게 대표적 난치병 질병 중의 하나인 암에 대한 항종양 특징은 화학적 예방 요법이라는 측면에서 중요성과 활용도가 주목받고 있다. 그러나 프로폴리스가 가지는 항종양 같은 현상적인 효과라던가 프로폴리스 구성 성분의 특징에 대해서만 연구가 이루어지고 있고, 암세포에서 나타나는 구체적인 분자 기전에 대해서는 아직까지도 연구가 미비한 상황이다. 본 연구에서는 암세포에 대해서 프로폴리스가 나타내는 구체적인 분자기전을 제시함으로써 어떤 메커니즘으로 의해 프로폴리스가 항암에 대해 효과를 나타내는지 확인하고자 하였다. 암세포에 대해서 확실한 항암 효과를 보이기 위해서는 프로폴리스의 세포 사멸 농도를 확인하고 그 안에서 이루어지는 단백질 분자의 발현 양상 또는 분자 기능의 활성화 등을 기본적으로 확인해야 한다. 수많은 단백질들이 암세포의 성장 및 분화에 관여하고 있지만 현실적으로 세포 내부의 모든 단백질의 기능을 확인하기엔 불가능하기 때문에 세포의 분열과 사멸에 관련된 기본적인 단백질과 더불어 암에 관련된 단백질의 활성화 등은 반드시 확인해야 한다. 따라서 본 연구에서 제시된 결과를 보면 프로폴리스가 암세포에 대해서 항암 효과를 보이기 위해서는 100 ㎍/mL의 농도에서 비로소 세포 사멸 현상을 나타낼 수가 있으며, 그에 따라 암세포 내부의 수많은 단백질의 변화가 나타남을 알 수 있다. 특히 주목할 점은 국내의 지역에 따라 수집된 프로폴리스의 항암 효과가 암세포 내부에서 작용할 때는 큰 차이를 보인다는 것이다. 이것은 매우 중요한 결과로서 각 지역에 식재된 밀원수에 따라 프로폴리스의 구성성분이 달라지는 것이며 그에 따라 프로폴리스의 기능성에 큰 차이를 나타낸다는 의미이다. 이는 프로폴리스가 가지는 기능에서 항암뿐만이 아니라 항염증, 항산화 그리고 항균 작용에서도 지역별로 구성된 식물상에 따라 기능성의 차이가 결정된다는 것이다. 역으로 추적해서 각 지역에서 나타난 프로폴리스의 기능성 차이를 확인하고 해당 지역의 식물상을 분석한다면 질병 또는 특정 기능성을 가진 프로폴리스를 생산할 수 있다는 의미가 될 것이다. 자궁경부암 세포에 대한 프로폴리스의 성장저해 효과는 확인했지만 아직도 확인해야 할 기전은 매우 다양하다. 세포는 내부의 신호 체계가 매우 복잡하고 단일 신호 체계가 아닌 다중 신호 체계를 가지고 있기 때문에, 프로폴리스에서 항암 효과가 나타난다고 하더라도 암세포는 다른 방향으로 anti-apoptitic signal을 생성할 수 있다. 따라서 다양한 신호 체계에 대한 암세포 내 단백질 발현에 대한 변화를 확인해야 하며, 추가로 단백질의 phosphorylation, acetylation, protein folding 그리고 mutation과 같은 기능성을 검증해야 한다. 이런 분석을 통해 프로폴리스의 구체적인 세포 신호 경로를 확인해야만 항암과 관련하여 약물을 제조할 때 손쉽게 표적 특이적인 신약 제조가 이루어질 수 있을 것이다. 특히 암은 조직별로 그 특성을 다르게 가질 수 있기 때문에 조직 특이적인 맞춤형 약제의 생산이 가능할 것이다. 따라서 본 연구에서 제시된 지역별 프로폴리스의 항암 분자 기전 분석에 더하여 해당 지역의 밀원수 분석 및 세포 내 단백질 변화추적을 기반으로 앞으로 더 많은 종류의 암세포 저해 기전을 밝힌다면 대표적 양봉 산물인 프로폴리스를 이용한 특정 암에 대한 효과적인 항암제의 개발이 가능할 것으로 보여진다.