Cytotoxic effect of damnacanthal, nordamnacanthal, zerumbone and betulinic acid isolated from Malaysian plant sources
The present study was to evaluate the toxicity of damnacanthal, nordamnacanthal, betulinic acid and zerumbone isolated from local medicinal plants towards leukemia cell lines and immune cells by using MTT assay and flow cytometry cell cycle analysis. The results showed that damnacanthal signific...
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Summary: | The present study was to evaluate the toxicity of damnacanthal, nordamnacanthal, betulinic acid and
zerumbone isolated from local medicinal plants towards leukemia cell lines and immune cells by using MTT
assay and flow cytometry cell cycle analysis. The results showed that damnacanthal significantly inhibited HL-60 cells, CEM-SS and WEHI-3B with the IC50 value of 4.0 µg/mL, 8.0 µg/mL and 3.3 µg/mL, respectively.
Nordamnacanthal and betulinic acid showed stronger inhibition towards CEM-SS and HL-60 cells with the
IC50 value of 5.7 µg/mL and 5.0 µg/mL, respectively. In contrast, Zerumbone was demonstrated to be more
toxic towards those leukemia cells with the IC50 value less than 10 µg/mL. Damnacanthal, nordamnacanthal
and betulinic acid were not toxic towards 3T3 and PBMC compared to doxorubicin which showed toxicity
effects towards 3T3 and PBMC with the IC50 value of 3.0 µg/mL and 28.0 µg/mL, respectively. The cell cycle
analysis exhibited that damnacanthal exerted its toxicity effect towards HL-60 cells by inducing apoptosis with
value of 25% after 72 hours treatment. Thus, these compounds could be the potential anticancer drug with less
toxic side effect. |
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