Background And Purpose: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) has a poor prognosis due to limited therapeutic options. Recent studies have shown that TNBC is highly dependent on mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. The aim of this study was to investigate the potential of coptisine, a novel compound that inhibits the complex I of the mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC), as a treatment for TNBC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The unmet needs in treating acute myeloid leukemia(AML) promote us to look for more effective and less toxic therapies. In this study, we discovered that Yinzhihuang injection(YZHI), a traditional Chinese patent medicine for hepatitis treatment, suppressed the growth of AML cells.
Method: Anti-proliferative activities of YZHI were measured by CCK-8 assay.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide; however, there is still a lack of effective clinical anti-CRC agents. Naturally-occurring compounds have been considered a potentially valuable source of new antitumorigenic agents. Involucrasin A, a novel natural molecule, was isolated from (Wall.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMetabolic reprogramming, a newly recognized trait of tumor biology, is an intensively studied prospect for oncology medicines. For numerous tumors and cancer cell subpopulations, oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) is essential for their biosynthetic and bioenergetic functions. Cancer cells with mutations in isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) exhibit differentiation arrest, epigenetic and transcriptional reprogramming, and sensitivity to mitochondrial OXPHOS inhibitors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: Due to the poor prognosis of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL), there is an urgent need to identify safer and more cost-effective drugs.
Objective: This study evaluated the antitumour activity of Shuanghuanglian (SHL) on T-ALL cells and elucidated the mechanism.
Materials And Methods: Jurkat and Molt4 cells were treated with SHL (0.
There are technical obstacles in the safety evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) injections due to their complex chemical nature and the lack of rapid and accurate methods. Here, we established a dual mitochondrial toxicity approach combing the conventional "glucose/galactose" assay in HepG2 cells with the cytotoxic assay in mitochondrial respiration deficient cells. Using this dual approach, for the first time, we systematically assessed the mitochondrial toxicity of TCM injections.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFWalsh-Hadamard is a commonly used mathematical transformation, a mathematical method for spectrum analysis in the real number domain, which has been widely used in many fields such as digital signal processing, spectral modulation, and image processing. Based on the characteristics of the ternary optical computer with a large number of processor bits, reconfigurable bit functions, and parallel computation, a ternary optical processor with all bits allocated is given, and the transformations ,,,, of modified signed-digit (MSD) addition are reconfigured. On this basis, by configuring MSD adders on the optical processor, the -point Walsh-Hadamard transform fast parallel computing approach is given.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF(±)-Involucrasins A () and B (), two pairs of flavanone enantiomers were isolated from . Structurally, both and are rare representatives of 5-dehydroxy/5-demethoxy 2',3',4'-trisubstituted flavanones. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of comprehensive spectroscopic data analysis and comparison with the literature data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIsocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) mutant R132H, promoting the oncometabolite D-2-hydroxyglutarate (D2HG), is a driver mutation and an emerging therapeutic target in glioma. This study identified a novel mutant IDH1 inhibitor, WM17, by virtual screening and enzymatic confirmation. It could bind to and increase mutant IDH1 protein's thermostability in both endogenous heterozygous cells and exogenous overexpressed cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRAS-driven colorectal cancer relies on glucose metabolism to support uncontrolled growth. However, monotherapy with glycolysis inhibitors like 2-deoxy-D-glucose causes limited effectiveness. Recent studies suggest that anti-tumor effects of glycolysis inhibition could be improved by combination treatment with inhibitors of oxidative phosphorylation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDZ2002, a reversible S-adenosyl-l-homocysteine hydrolase (SAHH) inhibitor with immunosuppressive properties and potent therapeutic activity against various autoimmune diseases in mice. The present study was designed to characterize the potential therapeutic effects of DZ2002 on murine model of psoriasis and reveal the correlated mechanisms. In this report, we demonstrated that in vitro, DZ2002 significantly decreased the expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines and adhesion molecule including IL-1α, IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, TNF-α and ICAM-1 by inhibiting the phosphorylation of p38 MAPK, ERK and JNK in TNF-α/IFN-γ-stimulated HaCaT human keratinocytes.
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