Chloroquine is an established antimalarial agent that has been recently tested in clinical trials for its anticancer activity. The favorable effect of chloroquine appears to be due to its ability to sensitize cancerous cells to chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and induce apoptosis. The present study investigated the interaction of zinc ions with chloroquine in a human ovarian cancer cell line (...

The chemical study on the seeds of Caesalpinia sappan led to the isolation of five new cassane diterpenoids, phanginins R‒T (1-3) and caesalsappanins M and N (4 and 5), together with seven known compounds 6-12. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of NMR and HRESIMS analyses. The absolute configurations of compounds 1 and 4 were determined by the corresponding CD spectra. All the isola...

Platinum-resistance is the most crucial problem for treatment of ovarian cancer. There is a clinical need for new treatment strategies which overcome platinum resistance. As survival is strongly influenced by immunological parameters, immunotherapeutic strategies appear promising. Therefore a better understanding of the interaction between ovarian tumour cells and cells of the immune system is ...

DIG-MSK (demycarosil-3D-β-D-digitoxosyl mithramycin SK; EC-8042), a novel analogue of mithramycin A, induced autophagy in HCT116 human colon carcinoma and, to a lesser extent, in A2780 human ovarian carcinoma cell lines, which was followed by apoptosis and/or necrotic cell death in a time-dependent way. The effects of DIG-MSK included changes in the expression of a set of genes involved in auto...

Ginsenosides are the active components of Panax ginseng. Many research studies indicate that these deglycosylated, less-polar ginsenosides have better bioactivity than the major ginsenosides. In the present study, we sought to verify the enhanced anticancer effect of P. ginseng extract after undergoing the Maillard reaction as well as elucidate the underlying mechanism of action. The effects of...

Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecological cancer among women worldwide. Adverse side effects and acquired resistance to conventional platinum based chemotherapy are major impediments in ovarian cancer treatment, and drive the development of more selective anticancer drugs that target cancer-specific defects. In this study, theaflavin-3, 3'-digallate (TF3), the major theaflavin monomer in ...

PURPOSE Bromodomain-containing protein 7 (BRD7), which is a subunit of SWI/SNF complex, has been recently suggested as a novel tumor suppressor in several cancers. In this study, we investigated the tumor suppressive effect of BRD7 in epithelial ovarian cancer. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN We analyzed the expression of BRD7 in human ovarian tissues with real-time PCR. To investigate the functional rol...

The gene for the bacterial enzyme carboxypeptidase G2 (CPG2) was expressed internally in mammalian cells. Mammalian-expressed CPG2 had kinetic properties Indistinguishablefrom bacterially expressed CPG2. Human tumor cell lines A2780, SK-OV-3 (ovarian adenocarcinomas), LS174T, and WLDr(colon carcinomas) were engineered to express con stitutively either CPG2 or bacterial 13-galactosidase. These c...