Texas Native Plants Yield Compounds with Cytotoxic Activities against Prostate Cancer Cells

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• 作者：Corena V. Shaffer ; Shengxin Cai ; Jiangnan Peng ; Andrew J. Robles ; Rachel M. Hartley ; Douglas R. Powell ; Lin Du ; Robert H. Cichewicz ; Susan L. Mooberry
• 刊名：Journal of Natural Products
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 25, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：79
• 期：3
• 页码：531-540
• 全文大小：504K
• ISSN：1520-6025

文摘

There remains a critical need for more effective therapies for the treatment of late-stage and metastatic prostate cancers. Three Texas native plants yielded three new and three known compounds with antiproliferative and cytotoxic activities against prostate cancer cells with IC₅₀ values in the range of 1.7–35.0 μM. A new sesquiterpene named espadalide (1), isolated from Gochnatia hypoleuca, had low micromolar potency and was highly effective in clonogenic assays. Two known bioactive germacranolides (2 and 3) were additionally isolated from G. hypoleuca. Dalea frutescens yielded two new isoprenylated chalcones, named sanjuanolide (4) and sanjoseolide (5), and the known sesquiterpenediol verbesindiol (6) was isolated from Verbesina virginica. Mechanistic studies showed that 1–4 caused G₂/M accumulation and the formation of abnormal mitotic spindles. Tubulin polymerization assays revealed that 4 increased the initial rate of tubulin polymerization, but did not change total tubulin polymer levels, and 1–3 had no effects on tubulin polymerization. Despite its cytotoxic activity, compound 6 did not initiate changes in cell cycle distribution and has a mechanism of action different from the other compounds. This study demonstrates that new compounds with significant biological activities germane to unmet oncological needs can be isolated from Texas native plants.