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- Researchers identified chelerythrine as a small molecule inhibitor of BclXL-Bak binding, derived from a large screening of natural products.
- Chelerythrine demonstrated effective inhibition, with an IC50 value of 1.5 micro M, and induced apoptosis in mammalian cells via the mitochondrial pathway.
- Despite being known as a protein kinase C inhibitor, the study suggests that chelerythrine's ability to trigger apoptosis is primarily due to its direct interaction with Bcl-2 family proteins.
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The identification of small molecule inhibitors of antiapoptotic Bcl-2 family members has opened up new therapeutic opportunities, while the vast diversity of chemical structures and biological activities of natural products are yet to be systematically exploited. Here we report the identification of chelerythrine as an inhibitor of BclXL-Bak Bcl-2 homology 3 (BH3) domain binding through a high throughput screening of 107,423 extracts derived from natural products. Chelerythrine inhibited the BclXL-Bak BH3 peptide binding with IC50 of 1.5 micro m and displaced Bax, a BH3-containing protein, from BclXL. Mammalian cells treated with chelerythrine underwent apoptosis with characteristic features that suggest involvement of the mitochondrial pathway. While staurosporine, H7, etoposide, and chelerythrine released cytochrome c from mitochondria in intact cells, only chelerythrine released cytochrome c from isolated mitochondria. Furthermore BclXL-overexpressing cells that were completely resistant to apoptotic stimuli used in this study remained sensitive to chelerythrine. Although chelerythrine is widely known as a protein kinase C inhibitor, the mechanism by which it mediates apoptosis remain controversial. Our data suggest that chelerythrine triggers apoptosis through a mechanism that involves direct targeting of Bcl-2 family proteins.
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