Cytotoxic activity of NN-32 toxin from Indian spectacled cobra venom on human breast cancer cell lines

BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is the most common cancer which causes significant morbidity and mortality among women worldwide. Lack of medical facilities for early detection, therapeutic strategies for treatment and side effects due to pharmacological compounds have encompassed the need for new therapies mostly from natural sources. A lot of components have been identified from different snake venoms as therapeutic agents. A group of polypeptides (60-70 amino acid residues) called cytotoxins or cardiotoxins present in an elapid family of snakes have a wide variety of pharmaceutical actions and have the tendency to damage a wide variety of cells including cancerous cells. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the cytotoxic effect of NN-32 protein toxin purified from Indian Spectacled Cobra venom against human breast cancer cell lines (MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231).

METHODS: The NN-32 toxin was purified by ion exchange chromatography and further by RP-HPLC. The potential anticancer effects of the NN-32 toxin on MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 cells were evaluated using MTT, anti-proliferation, neutral red (NR) uptake and Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) release assay.

RESULTS: The ion exchange chromatography showed various peaks among fraction no. 35 showing cytotoxic activity and this fraction showed a single peak with retention time 3.6 mins by HPLC using C18 column. The NN-32 toxin induced cytotoxicity in MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 cells with the IC50 value of 2.5 and 6.7 μg/ml respectively. The NN-32 showed significant cytotoxicity to both the cell lines along with low cytotoxicity to MCF-10A (normal breast epithelial) cells. The cytotoxic effect was further confirmed by the anti-proliferative, NR uptake and LDH release assays.

CONCLUSION: The purified toxin NN-32 from Naja naja venom showed cytotoxic activity against MCF-7 (ER+) and MDA-MB-231(ER-) cells in both dose dependent and time dependent manner.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

BMC complementary and alternative medicine - 17(2017), 1 vom: 28. Nov., Seite 503

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Attarde, Saurabh S [VerfasserIn]
Pandit, Sangeeta V [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antineoplastic Agents
Breast cancer
Cytotoxity
Elapid Venoms
Journal Article
MCF-7
MDA-MB-231
NN-32
Naja naja

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 14.12.2017

Date Revised 13.11.2018

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12906-017-2018-3

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM278491332