• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제13권12호
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• pp.6511-6516
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• 2012

Recently, we reported that an ethanol extract of Iris nertschinskia induces p53-dependent apoptosis in the MCF7 human breast cancer cell line. However, the detailed mechanisms were not fully explored. Here, we demonstrate another aspect of the activity of I. nertschinskia in breast cancer cells. We compared the response to an ethanol extract of I. nertschinskia in two different human breast cancer cell lines, Hs578Tand MDA-MB231, respectively with relatively low and high AKT1/2 activity by trypan blue exclusion assay and FACS analysis. Knockdown of endogenous AKT1 or AKT2 in breast cancer cells by RNA interference determined the sensitivity to I. nertschinskia ethanol extract compared to control cells. The I. nertschinskia ethanol extract induced cell death in a manner that depended on the level of phosphorylated AKT1/2 protein and was associated with a significant increase in the sub-G1 cell population, indicative of apoptosis. Our results indicate that an ethanol extract of I. nertschinskia differentially induces cell death in breast cancer cells depending on their level of phosphorylated AKT1/2.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.609-614
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• 2013

본 연구는 도꼬마리의 뿌리와 열매 부위별 항산화 활성의 검증을 통해 유효 생리활성 성분이 많은 부위를 탐색하고자 뿌리와 열매를 메탄올로 추출하여 항산화 활성물질, 라디칼 소거능, in vitro에서 항암 활성을 측정하였다. 항산화 물질인 폴리페놀과 플라보노이드 함량은 뿌리보다는 열매 부위에 6배 가량 높은 함량이 나타났다. ABTS, DPPH, Hydroxyl radical 소거능을 측정한 결과, 뿌리에서 $IC_{50}$% 6.02, 1.29, 3.88mg/ml이며, 열매에서는 0.81, 0.16, 0.44mg/ml로 열매에서 소거능이 높게 나타났다. 항암 활성을 알아보기 위하여 유방암세포(MCF-7), 위암세포(AGS), 폐암세포(A-549), 인체대장암세포(HCT-116), 간암세(Hep-G2) 및 전립선암(PC-3)에 처리하여 암세포 성장 억제 정도를 확인한 결과, 도꼬마리 열매와 뿌리 부위에 0.5mg/ml 농도에서 각각 26%, 36% 전립선 암세포 성장 억제 정도를 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.67-70
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• 2011

The roots of Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch. were extracted with 30% aqueous ethanol (EtOH), and the concentrated extract was partitioned with n-hexane, chloroform ($CHCl_3$), ethyl acetate (EtOAc), n-butanol (n-BuOH), and $H_2O$, successively. From the $CHCl_3$ fraction, four flavonoids were isolated through the repeated silica gel ($SiO_2$), octadecyl silica gel (ODS), and Sephadex LH-20 column chromatographies (c.c.). According to the results of spectroscopic data including nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry (NMR), electron ionization mass spectrometry (EI/MS), and infrared spectroscopy (IR), the chemical structures of the compounds were determined as glabrol (1), abyssinone II (2), glabridin (3), and isoliquiritigenin (4). The flavonoids were evaluated for cytotoxic effect against human cancer cell lines, HCT-116, HepG2, HeLa, SK-OV-3, SK-BR-3, MCF-7, and SK-MEL-5. Especially, glabrol (1) and glabridin (2) showed $IC_{50}$ values of lower than $25{\mu}M$.

• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.369-377
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• 2014

In order to find out anticancer activity of Korean pepper (Capsicum annuum L.), the cytotoxicity against 8 cell lines including 293 (normal kidney cells) and A-431 (epidermoid carcinoma cells) of extracts by extraction solvents and plant parts were investigated using MTT assay. Also the correlation between content of capsaicin known as anticancer ingredient and cytotoxicity of extracts from pepper were analyzed. The distilled water extracts from seed and germinated seed showed very high cytotoxicity against 6 cancer cell lines including A549 (lung carcinoma cells), AGS (stomach adenocarcinoma cells), HeLa (cervix adenocarcinoma cells), HepG2 (hepatoblastoma cells), HT-29 (colon adenocarcinoma cells), and MCF-7 (breast adenocarcinoma cells). But 80% ethanol and methanol extracts showed cytotoxicity against 293 and AGS. The $RC_{50}$, that was, the concentration of sample required for 50% reduction of cell viability, of seed and germinated seed extracts against AGS were $33.4{\sim}389.1{\mu}g/m{\ell}$ and $63.9{\sim}1,316.7{\mu}g/m{\ell}$, respectively, so anticancer activity was higher in seed than in germinated seed. In capsaicin contents, seed with high cytotoxicity and pericarp with a little cytotoxicity contained $47.4{\sim}1,260.0{\mu}g/g$ and $58.3{\sim}1,498.0{\mu}g/g$, respectively. As these results, the correlation was not between cytotoxicity and capsaicin content.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.318-325
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• 2006

Ultrasonified extracts from seawater-based cultures of the microalga Spiyulina platensis were obtained using water and ethanol at 60 and 100$^{\circ}C$. The yield of the aqueous fraction of S. platensis extracted using ultrasonification was about 33.46%. The cytotoxicity against HEK293 and inhibition ratios of the cancer cell lines A549, AGS, MCF7, and Hep3B were measured using the sulforhodamine-B (SRB) assay. The cytotoxicity of all extracts at 1.0 mg/mL was below 26%. The cytotoxicity of the ultrasonified extracts from the seawater-based culture of the microalga Spirulina platensis was about 4% less than that of Spirulina platensis without ultrasonification. The inhibition ratio of cancer cell growth was approximately 80% for 1.0 mg/mL extracts. The inhibitory effect on cancer cell growth was greater for seawater containing ultrasonified Spirulina platensis extracts than for extracts without ultrasonification. The differentiation ratio of HL-60 cells was 160.9%. Densitometric analysis of Bcl-2 revealed that the ultrasonified extracts had greater anticancer activity than the extracts without ultrasonification.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.307-312
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 해양생물 중 대표적 패류에 속하며 게두라고 불리우는 키조개를 추출, 각 용매별로 분획하여 암세포 성장억제 효과와 QR 유도활성 효과 등 각 생리활성효과에 대해 살펴보았다. 단백질이 많은 저칼로리 식품으로, 필수 아미노산과 철분이 많아 동맥경화와 빈혈예방에 좋다고 알려진 키조개의 암세포 성장억제에 대한 실험결과, 4종의 인체 암세포주 HepG2, HeLa, MCF-7 및 HT-29에서 모두 시료첨가 농도에 의존적으로 성장저지 효과가 나타났고, methanol 분획층인 APMM에서 괄목할 만한 높은 효과를 나타냈다. 특히 HeLa 세포주에서는 저첨가농도인 120 $\mu$g/mL에서 이미 $90.45\%$의 높은 세포독성 효과를 보였고, 다른 세포주들에서도 첨가농도별 효과의 차이는 있었으나 거의 유사한 세포성장 억제효과를 볼 수 있었다. 한편, 사용한 4가지 암세포주중 유일하게 quinone reductase를 가지고 있는 HepG2를 이용하여 quinone reductase 효소유도 활성여부를 측정한 결과 분획물 첨가농도를 20, 40, 60 및 80 $\mu$g/mL로 소량을 첨가하였음에도 40 $\mu$g/mL에서 이미 1.5배의 높은 QR 유도효과가 나타났으며, 농도를 증가시킬수록 그 효과가 증가하여 최종농도인 80 $\mu$g/mL에서는 약 2.0배의 QR 유도활성을 나타내었다. 이와 같은 실험결과에서, 패류인 키조개의 생리활성을 이용한 여러 유용한 기능성 식품의 개발이 기대되어진다.

• 생약학회지
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.174-180
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• 2014

D-Pinitol, an anti-diabetic substance, is a naturally occurring compound found in legumes. In this study, we investigated the inhibitory effect of D-pinitol on growth and recurrence of breast cancer. When D-pinitol was treated on MDA-MB-231 or MCF-7 breast cancer cells, it was observed that the viability of the two cancer cell lines was reduced in MTT assay. In order to examine the effect on the growth of breast tumor, mouse xenograft assay was carried out. On day 0, nine millions cells of MDA-MB-231 were injected subcutaneously into nude mouse and D-pinitol was administered orally at the dose of 500 mg/kg or 1000 mg/kg body weight for consecutive 45 days. Tumor size was reduced in dose-dependent manner upto 95.4% in 1000 mpk-treated group, compared with the non-treated control group. When D-pinitol was co-administrated with $4{\mu}g$ of doxorubicin, recurrence of breast tumor was delayed by two weeks, compared with the mouse group of doxorubicin monotherapy. Consistent with this data, it was observed that the population of cancer stem cells (CSCs), responsible for recurrence of cancer, within tumor mass was significantly reduced. Taken together, D-pinitol inhibits the growth of breast cancer and relapse of the tumor by suppressing the proliferation of CSCs.

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.231-237
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• 2002

This study was conducted to determine biological activities, such as lipid peroxidation inhibition, cytotoxicity, sun blocker, inhibition of tyrosinase, and antioxidative effect, of ethanol extracts, and of solvent fractionated ethanol extracts obtained from grape seeds and skins. The strongest lipid oxidative inhibition of 66.9% and 67.6% was observed respectively, in the presence of 20 $\mu\textrm{g}$/$m\ell$ of both ethanol extract and water fraction of grape seeds. Overall, the ethanol extracts and their fractions of grape seeds exhibited stronger lipid oxidative inhibition than that of skin extracts. On the other hand, the ethanol extracts of grape skins showed stronger cytotoxicity than that of seeds on MCF-7, Hep3B, and A549 cancer cell lines. However, the water fraction of seed ethanol extracts showed the strongest cytotoxic effect of 76.52% and 67.01% on MCF-7 and Hep3B, respectively among their fractions. Ethanol seed extracts obtained at 3$0^{\circ}C$ had the strongest absorbance both at UVA region (350 nm) and UVB region (308 nm) and the chloroform fraction showed the strongest absorbance at W region and butanol fraction at UVA region among their tractions, respectively. In the meantime, the ethanol extracts obtained at 3$0^{\circ}C$ and butanol fraction showed the strongest tyrosinase inhibitory effect of 39.4% and 37.6%, respectively. This study shows that ethanol extracts and their fractions of grape seeds and skins could be potential good materials for functional food and cosmetic products.

• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제52권4호
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• pp.180-186
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 염생식물의 한 종인 순비기나무의 추출 분획물 및 화합을 이용하여 항발암성 및 생체방어 물질로서의 유용성을 검토하고자 4종의 인체 암세포(HT1080, AGS, MCF-7 및 HT-29)에 대한 증식억제 효과를 검토하였다. 추출물에 대한 암세포 증식억제능 측정 결과, 10, 50 및 $100\;{\mu}g/mL$의 시료 처리 농도에서 농도 의존적으로 암세포의 생존율이 감소하는 경향을 확인하였으며, 모든 세포주에 대하여 methanol 추출물 보다 methylene chloride 추출물이 뛰어난 효과를 나타냄을 알 수 있었다. 따라서, 물질의 극성도에 따른 암세포 증식억제능을 확인하고자 추출물을 순차적으로 용매 분획하여 $H_2O$, n-BuOH, 85% aq. MeOH 및 n-hexane의 네 가지 분획층을 얻었으며, 추출물과 동일한 조건하에서 암세포 증식억제 효과를 재검토하였다. 그 결과, 비교적 극성이 덜한 85% aq. MeOH 분획층에서 우수한 암세포 증식억제능이 확인되었다. $100\;{\mu}g/mL$의 농도에서 85% aq. MeOH 분획층의 시료를 처리한 결과 HT1080, AGS, MCF-7 및 HT-29 세포는 각각 93.8, 91.6, 90.9% 그리고 82.7%의 강력한 억제 효과를 나타내었으며, 낮은 농도의 시료($10\;{\mu}g/mL$)를 처리한 결과에서도 HT1080과 AGS 세포에서 주목할 만한 억제효과를 보여 주었다. 생리활성 결과를 바탕으로 85% aq. MeOH 분획층의 분리를 통해 1종의 화합물을 분리할 수 있었으며, artemetin으로 알려진 화합물로 확인되었다. 분리된 화합물의 암세포 증식억제 효과를 확인해 본 결과 HT1080 세포에 선택적으로 효과를 보임을 확인하였으며, 그 효과는 항암제인 doxorubicin에 상응하는 결과였다. 따라서 본 연구를 통해 염생식물 순비기나무의 각종 인체 암세포에 대한 높은 증식억제 효과와 함께 암예방을 위한 기능성 소재로서의 개발 가능성이 확인되었다. 추후 순비기나무의 85% aq. MeOH 분획층 및 분리된 화합물에 대한 집중적인 연구를 통해 새로운 생리활성물질의 개발이 기대되어진다.

• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.153-158
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• 2012

In order to develop as a natural source of anticancer materials of Cudrania tricuspidata, the cytotoxicity of methanol extracts by harvesting parts and times against 8 cell lines including 293 (normal kidney cells) and A-431 (epidermoid carcinoma cells) were investigated using MTT assay. All harvesting parts had hardly cytotoxicity against 293. And methanol extracts of stem bark and root bark showed very high cytotoxicities against 7 cancer cell lines. The cytotoxicity was the highest against HeLa (cervix adenocarcinoma cells) and followed by MCF-7 (breast adenocarcinoma cells), AGS (stomach adenocarcinoma cells), HT-29 (colon adenocarcinoma cells), HepG2 (hepatoblastoma cells), A549 (lung carcinoma cells) and A-431. By the way, leaf extract had a cytotoxicity against only AGS and ripe fruit extract had no cytotoxicity. Among harvesting times, the cytotoxicity of root bark were high from April to September but that of stem bark showed a little difference. These results showed that anticancer activities of Cudrania tricuspidata extracts were eventful changes by harvesting parts and times.